Message from our Executive Director


 

Community living celebrated 32 years of supporting people with developmental disabilities and their families in November 2001. During the past 32 years we have seen the quality of life for the people with develop- mental disabilities increase dramatically. In 1969, people with developmental disabilities were supported in the State's seven institutions with as many as 40 people per hall and with little recognition being given to them as human beings with rights, abilities, and individual worth. The combined total population of the seven state institutions was over 8,000 people. Today the State's six  institutions support a combined total of 1,300 people. Today most people with developmental disabilities reside in their own communities living either  in their own homes or with their families. As has been our Board and Agency's belief, today people with developmental disabilities have the right to live, learn, and work in the community just like everyone else.

 

 

Over the years we have become known as a dynamic, ever evolving, creative, exciting, risk taking, cutting edge agency. We have been listed as one of the top residential programs for people with developmental disabilities in the nation by Syracuse University's Center for Human Policy. We have been sought out for assistance and consultation by providers from Canada, Ireland, England, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, New York, and Wisconsin.

 

 

In order to maintain our very high and reputable standards our focus is always on how we deliver services.  Decisions are based on what is in the best interest of the people to whom we provide services.

 

 

Through combined efforts of our staff, families and community, we are able to provide a safe, high quality learning environment in which each person we provide services to experiences success every day.

 

 

Mary Margaret Cornish

Executive Director       

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