Board of Trustees

Board Members:

Robert C. Griffin, Esq.
President

Audrey Vasey
Secretary/Treasurer
President-Elect

Harold J. Poltrock, Esq.
Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Sidney W. Blanchard, Executive Director, Community Access Unlimited
Adelaide Daskam, Advocate
Ethan Ellis, Executive Director, The Alliance for Disabled in Action
Dr. Karen M. Ensle, R.D.
Samuel Jenkins, Advocate, New Jersey Self Advocacy Project
Deborah Mohammed-Spigner, Rutgers University
Kathy Wiener, Management Consulting, Richard Boris Management Developers

Honorary Board Members:

Mike Fabricant, Ph.D.
Lewis V. Hurd, III
Phyllis Mirabella
Walter Kalman, Executive Director

Why CAU Exists: Global Mission Statement

People with disabilities are productive, independent citizens living real lives integrated into a real community.

Members with developmental, emotional, physical or social disabilities and those who fall through the cracks of the social service systems will be one or more of the following:

  • Integrated in to communities that:
    -  Appreciate
    -  Welcome, and
    -  Accept them
  • Economically self-sufficient
    -  Living independently
    -  Paying taxes
    -  Managing money
  • Exercising their civil rights toward self determination
    -  Knowledgeable
    -  Demanding
  • Experiencing personal growth and development
    -  Professional capacity
    -  Social capacity
    -  Healthy lifestyles
CAU's Values and Beliefs: Global Board Governance Commitment

The purpose of the Board, on behalf of the ownership, is to see to it that Community Access Unlimited:

  • Achieves appropriate results for the appropriate cost
  • Avoids unacceptable actions and situations

The ownership is those organizations and individuals who hold a preponderance of similar basic beliefs/values and approaches which, if achieved, will allow people with disabilities to be productive, independent citizens, living real lives integrated into a real community.

These basic values/beliefs are:

  1. Community integration
  2. Holistic interactions as value members of a social activist movement
  3. Equal treatment as citizens
  4. Equally valued as members of a social activist movement
  5. Choice and self-determination
  6. Real lives in real homes

These approaches for achievement are:

  1. The empowerment of people with disabilities to locate, develop, obtain or capture the necessary resources for individual uses as well as for building a community support system.
  2. The development of a culture and politics based on equality and full citizenship for all people.
  3. Framing issues, polices and practices holistically and not in the medical model or through segregation terms.
  4. The organizing of people and groups into mutually supportive and caring neighborhood and community at large.
  5. Building customized personal support systems one person at a time.