Elect Steve Masone Oregon City School Board
Priorities: Teen Suicide-Fentanyl Overdose Crisis-Special Services- Mental Health- Curriculum
Occupation:: Direct Support Professional
Occupation Background: Owner Public Relations Company, Program Director Emergency Homeless Shelter,. Masone & Associates Event Production- Artist Management & Media Company. Newspaper Columnist-Author - Education: Lane Community College, AA General Studies w/ AAOT to Oregon State University. American Military University- Sociology Major- National PTSD Center
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“Our Special Education Services are understaffed and overwhelmed.
Our most vulnerable children are being left behind! Mental Health, teen suicide,
Fentanyl overdose deaths will be a major focus as well as bullying. I will work hard to help save our children from substance abuse as well.” ~Steve Masone
OPB headline: “Students with disabilities face setbacks, safety risks as Oregon
special education systems struggle.”
Steve has been involved with special education since 1990. He is a member of National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI) where he trained for Certification as a Peer Support Specialist (PSS) Traditional Health Worker and Adult Mental Health Worker. Steve was trained in PTSD counseling at the National Center for PTSD .Steve began working with the disabled after his Artist Management Company provided entertainment for United Cerebral Palsy annual National Telethon after being discharged honorably from the U.S. Army in 1975.
A parent of an autistic child, Steve has been a tireless advocate for the disabled and mentally ill. He also serves on the Board of the stevemasone@gmail .com Lane PTSD Taskforce. Steve started the School of Blues, a non-profit for music & drama therapy in 2017. In 1976, Steve worked
to pass a law banning mental patients from being forced against their will to have electro-convulsive therapy (E.C.T.) treatments. Today, 17 other states have also banned the practice. Steve Masone knows how to get things done! Donations & Volunteers needed @ stevemasone@gmail .com (971) 754-5435 Help! SOS!