Elect: Steve Masone
Oregon City School Board
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
Prior Government experience::
US Army Selected Leadership (SLPP) Pgm.
National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice
Partnership with VA creating a “‘Veterans Homeless Emergency Shelter’
“Our Special Education Services are understaffed and overwhelmed..
Our children are being left behind. Mental Health, teen suicide, fentanyl
overdose deaths will be a major focus as well as bullying. I will work very 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.”) Disability rights in schools are civil rights too!
Steve has been involved with special education since 1990. He is a member of the 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 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 from electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). Today, 17 other states have also banned the practice. Steve Masone knows how to get things done!
