From the Executive Director

October 21, 2011

We come from diverse backgrounds with different experiences and varying resources. Each of us is unique, with values, abilities and views of our own. Even given similar circumstances, what one person needs may not be the same as another. Developmental disabilities differ greatly as well.

That’s where our agency tries to help. Because each person’s life is unique, we put together a team to make an individualized plan for a new and better future–a future when the person with developmental disabilities and their family get help and support.

Hope for a better tomorrow is what unites persons served, their families, agency staff, providers, advocates and volunteers, creating a community committed to meeting the challenges of developmental disabilities.

Look around you: People with developmental disabilities live, work and play in our community.

They seek ordinary lives with hearts impassioned by hopes and dreams. Let’s embrace our unity and continue to build on aspirations we share.

Les Wagner
Executive Director

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A very special thanks is extended to:
- The persons served, family members, staff, Board members and volunteers who have contributed many ideas over the years to help make these programs a success.
- Our community of service providers, collaborating agencies, and our friends and neighbors who approve and pay a very special property tax.
- The Missouri Department of Mental Health Division of Developmental Disabilities whose dedicated efforts have helped make possible many of the services and supports now received by agency clients.
If you get a chance, say,

“Thanks!”

From the Executive Director

“Thanks!”