About Us

Training and education delivered with Respect, Integrity, Service, and Equity.

RISE Partnership staff member shaking hands with a trustee

We stand for workers.

We deliver outstanding training, education, and benefit navigation to care providers and public sector workers, with a focus on equity and worker-employer collaboration.

Our History

RISE Partnership formed in 2019, when leaders of three labor-management trusts decided to create an entity that would improve delivery of training and benefits, leveraging coordination and resources for the best worker experience.

Working together has proven to be a huge success! Today, RISE’s educational mission overlaps with those of six labor-management trusts and goes much further: Our mission is to be the leading nonprofit, adult-education organization in Oregon by delivering outstanding training and education to care providers and public sector workers, with a focus on equity and worker-employer collaboration.

RISE Partnership admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students of our program’s training services. It doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, and other school-administered programs.

Board Members

  • Melissa Unger, President
  • Brian Rüdiger, Executive Director
  • Joy’e Willman, Personal Support Worker, Board Secretary

Our Team

Our team members are passionate about supporting workers.

Meet the team

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