Melmark New England

Ending the Cliff: Creating a Bridge to an Innovative Program Model for Community-Based Services for Young Adults with Autism, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

To create a model of adult services transition planning/execution that bridges the disconnect between children?s services and disparate young adult services.To develop comprehensive public policy guidelines and a mixed-use demonstration project modeling a continuum of care for adults with autism.

CATEGORY: Community Change
LOCATION: Andover, MA
AMOUNT: $200,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
WEBSITE: http://www.melmarkne.org/

FEATURED IMPACT STORY


Perpetual Motion

Have you heard the Tower Foundation’s origin story?  It has now been freshly told by Cassandra Gainer in the recent issue of Traffic East, a Western New York journal celebrating entrepreneurial and creative energy.  Gainer interviewed daughters Mollie Byrnes and Cynthia Doyle in telling the story of Peter and Elizabeth Tower’s life together and how they came … Continued