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
Mike Fabricant, Ph.D.
Lewis V. Hurd, III
Phyllis Mirabella
Walter Kalman, Executive Director
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:
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Integrated in to communities that:
- Appreciate
- Welcome, and
- Accept them
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Economically self-sufficient
- Living independently
- Paying taxes
- Managing money
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Exercising their civil rights toward self determination
- Knowledgeable
- Demanding
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Experiencing personal growth and development
- Professional capacity
- Social capacity
- Healthy lifestyles
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:
- Community integration
- Holistic interactions as value members of a social activist movement
- Equal treatment as citizens
- Equally valued as members of a social activist movement
- Choice and self-determination
- Real lives in real homes
These approaches for achievement are:
- 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.
- The development of a culture and politics based on equality and full citizenship for all people.
- Framing issues, polices and practices holistically and not in the medical model or through segregation terms.
- The organizing of people and groups into mutually supportive and caring neighborhood and community at large.
- Building customized personal support systems one person at a time.