Media Coverage

May 26, 2020 | nydailynews.com Manhattan: Why is the governor of New Jersey testing all 8,000 people and staff who work in all the group homes and state-licensed facilities providing care to persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities and we are not doing this in New York? During the daily briefings from both Gov. Murphy…

May 18, 2020 | njbiz.com Crisis does not build character, it reveals it. Managing one of the largest state-funded nonprofits supporting persons with disabilities in New Jersey is more than a challenge. Our essential and brave staff go to work every day supporting our most vulnerable citizens. Out of the 4,500 persons with disabilities we…

May 13, 2020 | newschannel9.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Grocery stores during COVID-19 mimic the Black Friday rush. Cash registers dinging and baggers moving. “I’m not that fast, I’m still kind of slow at it,” said Christopher Walker, a Food City employee. But the hustle never steals Walker’s or Mark Johnson’s smiles. “I am special needs…

May 6, 2020 | observer-reporter.com Direct care workers are on the front lines caring for a vulnerable population during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the director of a nonprofit that cares for developmentally disabled adults in Washington County believes they are being overlooked. Community Options Inc. supports people with disabilities in 10 states, including Pennsylvania, providing…

May 5, 2020 | post-gazette.com I stand behind the direct-support professionals who tirelessly help. If you’re following Mister Rogers’ advice and looking for the helpers, you don’t have to look far. There are people out there who dedicate their lives to caring for our society’s forgotten people. Heroes are everywhere; right now we tend to…

May 03, 2020 | post-gazette.com Dr. Jonas Salk tested his polio vaccine as a pilot study with almost 8,000 children in our local schools. Millions of children were vaccinated. Parents embraced vaccinations with open arms. In those days, John Fine, our first governor to televise his inauguration, grew up knowing that Franklin D. Roosevelt was…

April 30, 2020 | dallasdoinggood.com | INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS BY JAN OSBORN. Jamie Reynolds is the State Director for Community Options, Inc. of Dallas. Community Options was established in 1997 to provide residential and employment support services to individuals with disabilities living in (16) counties in the Northern Texas Region to include Dallas, Collin, Denton…

April 30, 2020 | syracuse.com Imagine being paid $11 to $16 per hour to work an eight-hour shift in a group home with three or four people who are autistic and/or with significant intellectual disabilities in Syracuse or Dallas or Nashville. If one person in the home is infected, that individual needs to self-isolate in…

April 30, 2020 | senatenj.com Senator Anthony M. Bucco applauded the three-month temporary salary raise for Direct Support Professionals (DSP) working with the more than 30,000 New Jersey residents with disabilities amid the pandemic. “DSPs provide invaluable, hands-on support to those in our communities with intellectual and developmental disabilities, helping to enrich their lives on…