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Edwards Center company history timeline

1972

1972 - Jean Edwards, a University of Oregon graduate with a passion for special education founds the Edwards Center and makes a promise to six families that the fledgling center would take care of their children once the parents were gone.

1975

1975 - Oregon passes legislation allowing developmentally disabled children access to public schooling—the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

1981

Then the discovery of talc and zinc made the community a mining town until 1981 when the mines closed.

2008

Jessica Leitner, (executive director of Edwards Center Inc. since 2008), begins a building project at the Edwards Community Center in Beaverton, Oregon - a pocket neighborhood of ten homes which offers a unique care model for families.

2012

2012 - Edwards Center provides resources, homes, jobs, and recreational opportunities for over 300 Oregonians with disabilities.

2015

2015 - Two homes are completed at the Community Center in Beaverton.

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1972
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Aloha, OR
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Jewel Edwards
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