Welcome to the Hood River County Education Foundation

"The equipment we purchased with the HREF Impact Teaching Grant for our sensory room at Westside has been extremely beneficial for our students. Students have many opportunities for communication, interaction, and sensory regulation. Students have opportunities to practice and develop motor skills and coordination, turn-taking, joint attention, and engaging with peers. Students are using the space to take a break and return to class, regulated and ready to learn. Students engage with each other and have benefited from peer modeling and interactions with students who are of different ages and have different abilities."

"Students with the greatest needs within the SLC [Structured Learning Center] at HRVHS are thriving and gaining much needed independence due to functional life and job skills training due in part to the HRCEF Teaching Grant. The grant allowed the SLC to purchase real life simulated task boxes and job supplies to learn and train with. This grant has allowed these students to practice on the job skills- such as order fulfillment tasks, wrapping silverware, preparing sugar caddies and hospitality bags, wiping down desks and chairs- in a structured setting. Students have learned the necessary steps to complete tasks and are starting to generalize these skills in various other settings across campus, preparing them for settings in the community."

With the help of the HRCEF Impact Teaching Grant the Mid Valley Elementary bilingual program at second grade was able to give Spanish literacy equal footing to English literacy in our classroom. We now have access to quality literature in Spanish that engages and motivates students to read. … Motivation to read engaging and fun books in Spanish is much higher than last year simply do to access.