Oregon’s only year-round school for children, teens, and young adults with Autism and related learning differences.

  • Welcome to Victory Academy, Oregon’s only year-round, accredited school for children, teens, and young adults affected by Autism

    We support our students as they form meaningful relationships, establish lifelong learning habits, and achieve independence.

  • Student-Centered Learning

    Victory teaches to the whole child - academics, language and communication, social/emotional skill development, self-determination - using innovative practices, research-based techniques, and person-centered planning.

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  • Nurturing Environment

    Victory honors the dignity of all students, offering a loving and nurturing environment that marries the student’s natural affinities and interests with individualized educational instruction.

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  • Differentiated Communication Systems

    Victory focuses on the development of functional communication systems for all, differentiating techniques to ensure an effective strategy for every student (expressive speech, written, augmentative and alternative devices, typing, and visual systems).

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  • Meaningful Relationships with Others

    Victory fosters life-long meaningful relationships between students and their peers, families, teachers, community members, and employers through instruction of social skills and communication.

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  • Sensory-Focused

    Victory believes that sensory regulation plays a key role in student success, and thus, creates an environment that considers each student’s sensory needs.

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  • Critical Life Skills

    Victory promotes the development of daily living skills, executive functioning, and social cognition through evidence-based methods applied across numerous environments.

  • Community Partnerships

    Victory cultivates strong partnerships through community education, vocational opportunities, and recreational exploration in order to support students’ lifelong participation as active, productive members of their communities.

  • Victory for All

    Victory believes in the potential of every student and celebrates all achievements and victories.

Compass

Compass Program

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Program Description

Compass launched in September 2023 and is Victory’s newest programmatic innovation to support Victory graduates and other young adults as they move forward in life beyond high school. Compass is intentionally designed as a full-day, year-round program offering participants a varied menu of enrichment classes, activities, and work endeavors. The program will have a distinct and separate home on the Victory Campus (building completion scheduled for Fall 2024) with carefully designed spaces to enhance group learning and dynamics.

Compass is centered on three overlapping Core Principles:

Connections

  • Building connections with classmates, peers, family members, teachers, direct support workers, medical providers, and employers
  • Learning skills to sustain meaningful connections with others and strategies to disengage from individuals when necessary
  • Understanding the connection between self, others, and the greater world

Communities

  • Maintaining current community connections established through previous work experience placements, recreational activities, and community-based instruction
  • Expanding community connections beyond Victory through the Principle of Discovery: Finding and trying out new jobs, classes, groups, clubs, activities, programs in a student’s home community
  • Utilizing a direct support worker to access activities and programs located in a Compass participant’s home community and to serve as a job coach, when appropriate

Continuations

  • Employment (Compass [student-run] business + new work placements)
  • Self-care + household tasks
  • Courses (psychology, people, politics, and perspectives, personal finance, culinary)
  • Electives: Expressive arts + music
  • Recreation
  • Community outings

Donate

Victory thanks you for your generosity and support.

Your donation makes a big difference to our students, their families, and our entire community.

We are grateful!

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Accreditation and Non-Discrimination Policy

Victory Academy is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3), approved by the Oregon Department of Education, and accredited through Cognia.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY: Victory Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religious preference, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its admission selections, educational policies and programs, and/or hiring and employment practices.

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