Rachel Bloom , executive director and founder of Full Life (formerly Portland Supported Employment) saw a need in the community and decided to act. Seeing that disabled adults had few resources for job training, art, inner exploration and basic support, she has made it her life's mission to provide a Full Life for people with a range of disabilities. For the past nine years, Rachel Bloom and her carefully chosen staff of experts have been at the forefront of programs catering to the special needs of this underserved population.

Full Life's mission is to provide fulfillment for people with disabilities, with the understanding that each client has different abilities, different challenges. Our clients can explore music, art, theater and film and search their creative side of their personality. Full Life offers employment opportunities in the working world, plus training in a wide range of useful and empowering skills, now that's a Full Life!

What's New at Full Life?

Expanded Summer and Afternoon Programs!


We do all of the following and more daily from 8am to 1pm during the Summer for roughly 16 weeks beginning June 15th, and we also have a special Afternoon Program for folks with higher staffing ratio or shorter program duration needs that runs from 1pm to 5pm.

At Full Life we're all about lots of fun activities, of community inclusion, and creative outlets for folks in our acclaimed musical theatre, film, and music programs!



At Full Life you can:


-act in our Theatre program!

-sing!

-play music, drums, piano, karaoke!!

-record music!

-dance, go to monthly dances, do dance work outs!

-learn to DJ with real turntables

-draw

-paint

-do puppet theatre

-learn to make a movie in Video Class

-get experience using public transportation!

-be an announcer and contributor to a live Radio Show each week!

-attend outings to local parks, bowling alleys, thrift stores, libraries, music concerts and more!!!

-spend time with adults in the Portland DD Community and gain valuable transitional experience at a fun and friendly adult care facility!

Come on down and find out more with a tour, or call us up for more info!


Looking forward to meeting you, and helping you turn your summers and afternoons into an exciting, fun-filled adventure at Full Life!

Contact Emily for more inforamtion eensley@gmail.com

Opened in May of 2009, the Full Life Coffee House is located just two doors down from our main site at 3331 NE Sandy Blvd. We are open to the public from 8am-3pm Monday through Friday. Come on down and check out some art created by Full Life's talented artists, listen in to our Radio Show on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, or just stop on by for a tasty cup of Peet's Coffee or a Black Sheep Bakery pastry.
Also, check the "News" page of this website to find out about upcoming after hours music and art events.

We are now hosting daytime events for members of the DD community. Click on the link to see what we've got going on. These have been very popular activities and have helped to grow our connection with other programs like ours in the area.
February events at the Coffee House

print this coupon for $1 off any specialty drink at the Full Life Coffee House

The Full Life coffee house was recently awarded the illustrious distinction of receiving Wilamette Week's Best Food for the Soul Award.
Best Food for the
Soul Certificate

Check out the Coffee House, as featured in the Oregonian!Oregonian article

Click on a photo to read more about the staff member!

Miriam Cohen	Katherine Sanderson	Emily Ensley	Liz Harris	Steve Hathaway	Jesse Studenberg
Rob Gray	Evan Miller	Micah Braden	Brian Richardson	Jack Bouba

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