We know poverty is chronic and traumatic because that is our lived experience. Even if we woke up and everyone had enough materially, our trauma would still replicate until it was healed. We collectively imagine our healing journey and work to repair our wounds through kindness, acts of equity, and collective imagining.

The Financial Healing Project is a project of account-ability Oregon. We're a small nonprofit in Oregon's Mid-Willamette Valley. Think legal aid but for accounting issues with a healthy dose of behavioral health and art thrown in.

Your Safety Matters

We’re deeply concerned about your digital safety and accessibility. We do not use cookies. We encourage you to use a private browser and/or a VPN when using our website. Feel free to attend our events anonymously. If our website is not functioning on your adaptive tech, please let us know. All our services are available in both English and Spanish.

We do not accept government funding and we do not ask for or collect any data that is not required for paperwork we are filing on your behalf. We rigorously protect your confidentiality in every way we can.

Our Mission

Providing education and services at the intersection of trauma and finance to produce a more equitable economy.

Our Principles

We operate on the 10 Principles of Disability Justice written by Sins Invalid

  1. Intersectionality: “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”
  2. Leadership of Those Most Affected: “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins Morales
  3. Anti-Capitalism: In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.
  4. Commitment to Cross-Movement Organizing: Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.
  5. Recognizing Wholeness: People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.
  6. Sustainability: We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation.
  7. Commitment to Cross-Disability Solidarity: We honor the insights and participation of all of our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation.
  8. Interdependence: We meet each others’ needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives.
  9. Collective Access: As brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity, to be in community with each other.
  10. Collective Liberation: No body or mind can be left behind – only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require.