Oregon's Kitchen Table

06/16/2026

Meet your Hatfield Futures Helping Hands!

Corban, Calla, Destiny, Allison, Jodell, Jupiter, and Eva have already been helping with planning and advising camp activities. And, in just a few weeks, they will be peer mentors to the incoming Hatfield Futures campers. We're so excited to have the Helping Hands with us! Click through to learn more about them.

06/11/2026

Meet your Hatfield Futures camp counselors!

Grace, Gurnoor, Anya, and Marek are so excited to be supporting the eight teams this year. They love hot Cheetos, pickles, dried mango, and Twix bars, and their favorite ways to express themselves includes poetry, journaling, art, and dying their hair.

We're now less than a month away until camp! What are you most excited for?!

06/04/2026

Are you having déjà-vu? You might be!

We realized we made a mistake with an earlier posting of the last cross-regional Hatfield Future team and so we are re-posting their info to make sure they have the right quotes, and snacks, attributed to them. This is the eighth and final team for Hatfield Futures, which is now just a month away (we can hardly believe it!!). Click through to learn more about this wonderful team!

We're so excited to have the students on PSU's campus in just a few weeks to do lots of future-thinking together. See you all there!

05/28/2026

Just a few days left! Be sure to share your thoughts by June 1st!
tinyurl.com/hecc-belonging

There is still time left to share what gives you a sense of belonging in college or training programs!! Share what you think by June 1st!

A sense of belonging matters: Students are more likely to continue their education if they feel like they belong in places of learning. Research shows that students’ sense of belonging makes a difference in student success. What can help Oregon students feel a sense of belonging at college and training programs?

We wants to hear from you! Share what you think through our survey: tinyurl.com/hecc-belonging

What you and others share will help the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission and partners decide on ways to help foster belonging for students.

05/28/2026

We are just six weeks away from Hatfield Futures summer camp! ☀️

Our latest team will be joining from eastern Oregon. Alba, Gracelyn, Elana, and Lily attend Wallowa High School and will be visiting PSU for the first week in July for futures-thinking. Swipe through to learn more about their team.

05/21/2026

There is still time left to share what gives you a sense of belonging in college or training programs!! Share what you think by June 1st!

A sense of belonging matters: Students are more likely to continue their education if they feel like they belong in places of learning. Research shows that students’ sense of belonging makes a difference in student success. What can help Oregon students feel a sense of belonging at college and training programs?

We wants to hear from you! Share what you think through our survey: tinyurl.com/hecc-belonging

What you and others share will help the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission and partners decide on ways to help foster belonging for students.

05/21/2026

Our next Hatfield Futures team comes from the Portland Metro area! Zakaria, Mohamed, and Farzin will be joining us at PSU this July from the Oregon Islamic Academy and Summit Early College. Click through to read more about them!

We're so excited to be welcoming all our teams to do some future-thinking this summer at Hatfield Futures! Learn more about our program at our website: https://www.oregonskitchentable.org/hatfield-futures

05/13/2026

We're celebrating another Cross-Regional team for Hatfield Futures this week. Our next team is coming together from Albany and Hillsboro. Olha, Emi, and Anna will join us in July at PSU for a week of future-thinking and putting a proposal together on the future of Oregon.

Click through to learn more about their team and explore Hatfield Futures on our website: https://www.oregonskitchentable.org/hatfield-futures

05/08/2026

Are you an apprentice or journeyworker in a construction trade?
Do you support people in the trades?

The Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) wants to hear from you about Oregon’s new Child Care for Construction Program!

Take the survey today: https://tinyurl.com/okt-ccc-survey

Oregon’s new Child Care for Construction Program provides help paying for child care for people in construction trades during their apprenticeships and in the first five years as journeyworkers. The program is under the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI).

Now, BOLI wants to hear from construction trades apprentices, journeyworkers and their families, as well as other community members about what could help make the program easier to access and meet their families’ child care needs. Your input will help BOLI and partners make it easier for people to learn about and access this financial support.

There are various ways that we are inviting people to share what they think:
1. Take the survey in English or Spanish through May 31, 2026 - https://tinyurl.com/okt-ccc-survey
2. Invite other people - Let people who work in construction or who support people who work in construction know how to share what they think!
3. Would you like to host a conversation in your community, invite us to speak with your class or table at your event? Oregon’s Kitchen Table will be hosting conversations and tabling at community events in May to hear from people. If you would like to work with us to hear from your community, reach out to us by emailing Eliot Feenstra ([email protected]).

Learn more and sign up for the Child Care for Construction program here:
https://www.oregon.gov/boli/apprenticeship/Pages/Financial%20Assistance%20for%20Registered%20Apprentices.aspx

05/07/2026

Our next Hatfield Futures team comes from Cave Junction and Illinois Valley High School. Team members Annabelle, Jayden, and Morgan will be joining us at PSU this July for a week of future-thinking and putting a proposal together on the future of Oregon.

Join us in cheering on the Hatfield Future teams and learning more with the link in our bio