With a mission to enable persons with developmental disabilities to be active members of the community to the maximum extent, Warren Achievement Center operates through received grants, which are based on fees for service, and fundraising, informs Marketing Coordinator Sean Cavanaugh:
“The monies that we are provided with, they don’t cover all the needs of the achievers. We reach out to individuals in the community and they make a donation into what is referred to as the Achiever Medical Fund and that safeguards achievers, those that we serve, with a blanket of coverage. We also raise funds for our season celebrations, such as New Years, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. We have our General Fund to go for different things that may pop up and also we have been talking for quite some time about a Capital Campaign or a Building Fund. At some point our current Day Program facility will no longer be used and there will be a new location. People have been putting money into that fund as well for when the time comes.”
The Warren Achievement School was first founded in 1961, followed by the opening of the workshop in 1969 and the addition of the current Adult Residential program in 1972.
