OEO’s legislative mission is to reduce opportunity gaps. Our strategic plan priorities reduce the opportunity gap by focusing our limited conflict resolution resources, such as informal mediation and coaching, on K-12 students who are:
- Out of school, including students with disabilities receiving partial school days
- People of color, Black, or indigenous
- Experiencing homelessness
- In kinship or foster care
- Involved with the juvenile justice or juvenile rehabilitation systems
- Immigrant, refugee, asylee, or migrant, or students or families whose primary language(s) is not English
- Receiving Wraparound with Intensive Services (WISe) or Children’s Long Term Inpatient Programs (CLIP) supports, or
- Transgender or Nonbinary Youth