 Visit petsandpeopletogether.org to learn how to be a helper in your community. This has been a public service announcement brought to you by Maddie's Fund, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Ad Council. In 1968, in a one-room building off East Main Street, a new idea took root. One of Oregon's first community-based employment centers established solely to provide employment services for people with developmental disabilities and severe handicaps.