Oregon's Kitchen Table

Take a Seat at the Table

Share what you think about belonging in college and training programs:

OKT is partnering with the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to gather input about peoples’ experiences, ideas, and perspectives about what can help students feel a sense of belonging in college and training programs.

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The image portrays a stylized illustration of a round wooden dining table with a single pedestal base and an orange-brown color. The table is surrounded by four dark blue chairs with green seat cushions. On the table, there is a candle with a white body and green holder, a blue bowl filled with colorful fruits, and a yellow teapot with a blue lid and handle.

Ways You Can Engage

Oregon’s Kitchen Table invites all Oregonians to share their ideas, opinions, and beliefs to improve Oregon and its communities. For us, all Oregonians means all Oregonians, and we want you to have a say in the decisions that affect your lives!

Everyone has a place at Oregon’s Kitchen Table.

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Community Engagement

Oregon’s Kitchen Table creates community engagement opportunities to allow Oregonians to influence the decisions that impact their lives. We offer many different ways for people to participate in these decisions.

Hatfield Futures

Hatfield Futures engages teams of Oregon high school students in generating innovative solutions for our most important societal, environmental, and economic issues.

Special Projects

Oregon’s Kitchen Table is committed to trying new and different approaches to bringing more people into public-decision making. We partner with other Oregon organizations who hold this same commitment on a variety of Special Projects.

What’s Going On at the Table

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APPLY NOW: HATFIELD FUTURES 2026

Applications are now open for Hatfield Futures 2026! 

Using the year 2050 to spark our collective imagination, the Hatfield Futures Project invites up to six teams of high-school students from across Oregon to envision Oregon’s future and generate proposals to address important social, environmental, and economic issues.

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Hatfield Futures Camp and Showcase 2025

From June 23 to June 27, 2025, Futures Camp came to Portland State University! Oregon’s Kitchen Table welcomed seven teams of youth from 12 communities across Oregon, including Estacada, Corvallis, Helix/Pendleton, Bend, Tigard, Paisley, Gresham, Ashland, Eugene and Portland. We had four school-based teams (Estacada, Corvallis, Bend, and Helix), two cross-regional teams, and one regional team of students from four different high schools in Portland. 

 

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Helping Hands 2025 Hatfield Futures Team

Meet the Hatfield Helping Hands team!

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