Welcome to the Hood River County Education Foundation

"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."

"Students like to build stuff! … It is a model that brings out the best in students. They bring their best energy to a big, bold project that gives them a real sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. … Our goal was to finish this current tiny house build by the end of the school year, using the sales of the home to fund future year's builds."

Music teaches students skills from motor coordination to memory recall and math, but the cost of renting instruments can be prohibitively expensive for students. HRCEF provides grants to the school district so that all students at Hood River and Wy'East middle schools can learn an instrument, and event participate in the school band.