Our History

For more than forty years, Oregon Community Programs (OCP) has walked alongside Oregon’s children, youth, and families, helping them build brighter, stronger, and healthier futures. Born in 1983 from the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC), OCP began with a simple but powerful belief: that research should do more than fill journals, it should change lives. From our earliest days, we’ve been committed to bringing proven, evidence-based behavioral health services out of the research world and into the heart of our communities, where real people live, grow, and thrive.

In our early years, OCP served as the community-based branch of OSLC’s groundbreaking research on family dynamics, behavior, and resilience. Our role was to take what scientists were discovering about how children learn, grow, and heal, and translate it into practical, compassionate support for parents and caregivers. In 1994, we became an independent nonprofit organization, and in 2015, we adopted the name Oregon Community Programs to better reflect our deep roots in Oregon communities.

Today

OCP continues to bridge the gap between science and everyday life through programs that strengthen families, promote healing, and create lasting, generational change. Our evidence-based services are proven to reduce trauma, improve relationships, and restore hope. At OCP, we believe real change happens when we invest in families; not just for today, but for generations to come. Every time a parent learns new skills, a child feels safe, or a family reconnects, we break the cycle of instability and lay the foundation for a stronger future.

We provide a full continuum of care, including:
  • Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO): 
    Intensive treatment foster care that helps youth with complex needs stabilize, heal, and successfully transition back to family settings. Youth are intentionally matched with families who can meet their needs and nurture their strengths in a safe, structured environment. Foster parents receive 24/7 support from a skilled clinical team that focuses on building resilience through consistency, compassion, and connection. We prioritize prosocial activities and community involvement, helping youth experience success, build self-worth, and re-engage in healthy relationships and routines.
  • Keeping Foster and Kinship Families Supported (KEEP): 
    Group-based support that connects foster and kinship parents with a community of caregivers who understand their challenges. Through practical tools and guided discussions, participants learn strategies that reduce stress, prevent placement disruptions, and improve outcomes for youth. KEEP groups are built on encouragement and shared wisdom, reminding caregivers that they are never alone.
  • Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): 
    A live-coaching model where clinicians guide caregivers through real-time interactions with their children. This evidence-based therapy strengthens attachment, reduces challenging behaviors, and helps parents build confidence and calm in moments of stress. Families leave PCIT with lasting skills that improve communication and trust.
  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): 
    A structured, trauma-informed model that helps children and their caregivers process difficult experiences, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and rebuild a sense of safety. Families heal together, developing coping skills that support recovery and long-term emotional health.
  • Intensive In-Home Behavioral Health Treatment (IIBHT): 
    Our highest level of outpatient care, designed to keep youth with complex needs safely in their homes and communities. Families receive two to four hours of in-home services per week, along with 24/7 crisis response and coaching. This wraparound approach helps prevent costly residential placements, stabilizes family systems, and gives parents the tools to sustain progress long after treatment ends.
  • Parent Management Training Oregon (PMTO): 
    A research-backed framework that equips parents with practical strategies to encourage positive behaviors and strengthen family bonds. PMTO empowers parents to shift patterns, reduce conflict, and build the skills that support lasting, generational change.

Our services meet families where they are, literally and figuratively. Whether that means visiting a family’s home to provide parent coaching, offering therapy in our offices, or coordinating with schools and community partners, we go wherever support is needed most. We provide wraparound services that look at the whole picture of a child’s life, ensuring that families have the resources, skills, and emotional support they need to thrive.

OCP’s clinicians, therapists, and foster parent support teams work tirelessly to help children stay safely with their families whenever possible, and to reunify youth in foster care with their parents when the time is right. We know that strong, healthy relationships are the foundation of lifelong success, and we go above and beyond to help families rebuild those connections.

Our mission is to uplift families by providing behavioral health support rooted in evidence, empathy, and empowerment. Guided by science and shaped by compassion, OCP remains dedicated to promoting the well-being of every family. Through collaboration, innovation, and heart, we continue to build a future where all families have the skills, support, and confidence they need to succeed.

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We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations to Oregon Community Programs are deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the IRS.
OSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs. 
Federal Tax ID # 93-1208532.