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    Family Outreach Committee

    We have formed a new Family Outreach Committee. It consists of members of both our Board of Directors and Board of Trustees. This committee will focus on improving communication between families and the agency. We will help build a network of families to support each other and assist in community outreach efforts. We would like to engage all of you in advocacy efforts as well as increase philanthropic support during these difficult economic times. All members of our committee have a loved one receiving support from Ability Beyond Disability.

    Ability Beyond Disability relies strongly on family feedback. Please join us at one of our upcoming family meetings. Both meetings will follow the same agenda. You are welcome to attend whichever meeting is most convenient to you regardless of which state your loved one resides in.

    Monday, March 26, 2012-6:00PM

    Connecticut

    Leir Pavilion

    4 Berkshire Blvd

    Bethel, CT

    Please RSVP to Alice Meenan, Family Outreach Coordinator, at Alice.Meenan@abilitybeyonddisability.org or (203) 826-3182

    Wednesday, March 28, 2012-6:00PM

    New York

    120 Kisco Ave

    Mount Kisco, NY

    Please RSVP to Denise Gomez at Denise.gomez@abilitybeyonddisability.org or (914)984-2345

    For any questions or concerns please contact family.outreach@abilitybeyonddisability.org                                      

     Meet Our Committee Members

     

    Stephen Tracy-Committee Chair

    Steve has been on the Board of Ability Beyond Disability since 1991. His son, Christopher, is one of the original residents of the Ability Beyond Disability group home on Greeview Avenue in New Milford, CT. Steve is the superintendent of schools in Derby, CT.

     You can contact Stephen Tracy at stephentracy7@gmail.com

     

     

    Arthur Rosenfield

    Art is a retired Yale Professor of Diagnostic Radiology with a thirty-six year old daughter, Wendy, who has lived in an Ability Beyond Disability group home in New Fairfield, CT for the last fifteen years.

     

     

     

    Jim Luciano

    Jim is a new member of the Ability Board of Directors and also served on the Board's Human Resources Committee. Since last December, his twenty-four year old son, Michael has been living at one of the two new Ability Beyond Disability apartments on North Broadway in Yonkers, NY. Jim is a geriatrician and a managing medical director with a national health benefits company.

     

    Steven Finkelstein

    Steve Finkelstein has been on the Board of Trustees for just over a year, but has been involved in Ability Beyond Disability as a family member for over 15 years. His brother Michael lives in the Lewisboro home and spends his day at the Mt. Kisco Day Program. Steve owns and operates his family auto parts business located in Mt. Kisco and Port Chester, NY.

     

    Lynn Willie, Parent from CT

    Marcy Schwartz, Sibling from NY 

    Debbie Reinehr, Ability Beyond Disability Information and Referrals Representative 
Meet Larry “Today, Larry is working full time, earning a competitive salary and enjoying his financial independence.”