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People First: In the Shadow of Fairview
Clip: Season 15 Episode 1 | 5m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Oregon teenagers with developmental disabilities helped launch a self-advocacy movement.
More than forty years ago, a small group of Oregon teenagers with developmental disabilities helped launch a global self-advocacy movement. Together they formed the organization People First. In 1974, the group’s inaugural meeting drew over 500 attendees. That conference is generally thought to be the beginning of the developmental disabilities self advocacy movement.
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Oregon Experience
People First: In the Shadow of Fairview
Clip: Season 15 Episode 1 | 5m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
More than forty years ago, a small group of Oregon teenagers with developmental disabilities helped launch a global self-advocacy movement. Together they formed the organization People First. In 1974, the group’s inaugural meeting drew over 500 attendees. That conference is generally thought to be the beginning of the developmental disabilities self advocacy movement.
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Coming Home: In the Shadow of Fairview
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Clip: S15 Ep1 | 3m 48s | Remains of former residents of the Fairview Training Center finally come home to family. (3m 48s)
Eugenics: In the Shadow of Fairview
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Clip: S15 Ep1 | 4m 2s | Over a period of 60 years, the state forcibly sterilized over 2,600 Oregonians. (4m 2s)
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Clip: S15 Ep1 | 58m 19s | Fairview was Oregon's primary institution for people with developmental disabilities. (58m 19s)
Life at Fairview: In the Shadow of Fairview
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Clip: S15 Ep1 | 5m 46s | Twenty years ago, the last resident left Fairview Training Center when it closed. (5m 46s)
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