Our Voices Matter

Easterseals ADS Advisory Committee

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Listen to our voices

Peers, we are here for you! 

We will listen, support and advocate for and with you. 

Associates, we have lived experience, ask us!

OVM Board Members

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Marisol

I’m a vice president of OVM I will always be respectful to others and I’m very grateful to be in OVM I will always answer your questions to others and always be supporting each other and making new friends every. 

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Preeti Subramaniam

Preeti Subramaniam, self-advocate and animal lover, is a passionate and active disability advocate throughout Southern California. She graduated from Citrus College with an AA in Psychology, where she received the Most Inspirational Speaker Award.  She sits on multiple committees, and currently serves at San Gabriel Pomona Regional Center as Treasurer on their Board of Directors and member of CDSA’s Advocacy & Advisory Committee. She is President of the Our Voices Matter Advocacy & Advisory Committee at Easterseals Southern California where she has been using services for approximately 10 years. She regularly shares her passion of higher education as a viable option for people with disabilities and hopes to continue to spread this awareness through her advocacy work.

Meet our PCCP Team

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Amber Carey-Navarrete

(she/her)

​Phone: (657) 242-3435

Email: Amber.Carey@essc.org

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Amy Valdiviezo
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Evelyn Farooquee
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Lendy Ruano

(they/them)

​Phone: (818) 306-6752

Email: Lendy.Ruano@essc.org

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Lora Glassman
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Ruth Olivares

(she/her)

​Phone: (657) 242-2531   ​

Email: Ruth.Olivares@essc.org

Visit us

People know what is essential and meaningful in their own lives.

Person-Centered Culture and Practices and Self-Determination empower people to actively direct their own days, goals, planning and services. 

Person Centered Services champion personal preferences, interests and needs. With this approach, people are supported and encouraged to lead their planning process and make choices about what and with whom they would like to learn, do and be part of.

 

Address:  11110 Artesia Blvd, Suite C, Cerritos, CA 90703

Phone: (562)860-7270  |  Fax: (310) 542-0048

Office Hours: Every last Tuesday of the month  8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Send us an email: pccp@essc.org

 

Person-Centered Culture and Practices© (PCCP) is a turn-key training and implementation manual that provides step-by-step ‘how to’ for adult day services (ADS) to embark upon person-centered culture change.

 

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