Special Thanks

     The Web page originated and is overseen by the Public Awareness Committee of Philadelphia Mental Retardation Services. The key people responsible for the creation of the Resource Directory were:

• Jacqueline Carlucci (PCHC), Janet Williams (MRS), Sue McGill (RHD), David McFadden (Barber Resources), Mark Bostic (formerly with MRS), Claude Cornish (Visions), Bernadette Lennon (Visions), Gregory Jenkins (MRS), and Karen Pierce (Verizon Wireless).

Content Reviewers

• Beckie Dershaw (NE MH/MR Center), Brenda Golden (ChildLink), Jeff Petraco (City of Phila), Barbara Prince (Consultant), Ruth Landsman, Linda Falotico (PDDC), Michelle Sparling (Networks for Training), Michael Schardt (Greenwich), Dee Coccia (Visions), Liz Healey (Board Member, Pa. P&A), Dina McFalls (PCHC), Kathy Sherf (PCHC), Melissa Evers (PCHC), Gail Hoffmann (Self-Determination Housing Project), Ed Manning (former Penna. Office of Mental Retardation), Lynn Keltz (UCPA of PA), Jane Kershaw (Ken Crest), and Sharon Potter (Pa P&A).

Web Team

• Shalisha Anderson, Jacqueline Carlucci, Chairperson (PCHC), Beckie Dershaw (PCHC), Dianna Blakely (Greenwich), Janet Williams (formerly MRS), Freda Egnal (MRS), and Anita Wright.

Web Development

• Mark Friedman with original work done by Rosanna Wright.

Computer Donations

• Karen Pierce, Senior Technical Analyst for Verizon Wireless, and Jacqueline Carlucci (PCHC) for help having 20 IBM computers donated from Bell Atlantic, Mobile, for use in the Base Service Units by families, staff and people with disabilities.

Special thanks to Family Village of Wisconsin and Pathfinder of Tennessee for their pioneering work in developing Web Resource Directories.

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