[3] Dr. Jean Edwards opens the first group home in Washington County housing disabled adults in the community.
2012 – Edwards Center provides resources, homes, jobs, and recreational opportunities for over 300 Oregonians with disabilities.
Allen Cress, (executive leader of Edwards Center Inc.), begins a building project at the Edwards Community Center in Beaverton, Oregon, a pocket neighborhood of ten homes which offers a unique care model for families.
[5] 2014 – The "Tree of Life" campaign begins for the Edwards Center and includes the Tree of Life benefit concert series, held twice a year at the Edwards Aloha Community Center, as well as recordings and music videos which document stories of adults surmounting the challenges of developmental disabilities.
Performers at the live concert series and recordings feature internationally acclaimed Oregon musicians and artists and include Esperanza Spalding, Gino Vannelli, Tom Grant, Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, Janet Chvatal and Marc Gremm.