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Winter 2003
 
Accomplishments always seem easy after their fruition, but at Evelyn Douglin Center it is not about the success, but about the succession. For the mentally and physically challenged people in need of help that we serve are like you and I, constantly in need of help, change and most of all someone to trust in. For them, it’s the hard working, dedicated people that make up Evelyn Douglin Center, and its staff.

Read on to see how EDC gave back to the people that give of themselves, and how EDC is expanding and changing to provide services that will make the people it serves stronger, and more independent. 
 
 
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On Saturday, August 9, 2003, Evelyn Douglin Center rented out Gill Hodges Bowling Lanes in Brooklyn and proclaimed it EDC’s Staff Day, to thank the staff for their overwhelming dedication and love. Yes love, because it takes heart to come to work everyday and do a great, caring job. "This is beautiful, this makes me happy to see that we can all work together, have differences, yet come together and enjoy a day of bowling and eating-- together," sincerely stated Nurse Desir, who works at our Green Avenue Residence.

Staff day is not only about EDC’s employees, but their families as well, which the Bowling Lanes were flooded with as Bill Rolon, who sits on EDC’s Board of Directors announced and handed out certificates of Merit to employees that have been with the agency for a year, and portable CD players to employees that have been with EDC for three years and/or more.
 
 
Although, no one was left out, everyone who attended had the opportunity to participate in a raffle and win game prizes. "I won a portable DVD player," ecstatically said Marcia McLeish, who works in the Fiscal Department.

Also acknowledged were employees that give more than their best, like: Rosalee Dixon, Office Support Specialist, Dorris Grant, Direct Care Worker at Green Residence, Ramona Hernandez, Direct Care Worker at Johnson Avenue, Angela Robinson, Direct Care Worker at Union Residence, Tamara McDonald, Direct Care Worker at Jefferson Residence, Darren McKoy, Direct Care Worker at 38th Street Residence, Duell Mitchell, Direct Care Worker at Canarsie Residence, Daniel Dawson, Medicaid Service Coordinator and Aurora Reyes, Queens Residential Habilitation Specialist, Marie Edourde, Brooklyn Residential Habilitation Specialist, Nicole Baptiste, Day Habilitation Specialist at Peter Shorin Day Habilitation center in Brooklyn, Samuel Williams, Day Habilitation Specialist at Queens Day Habilitation Center, Luz Rodriguez from Family Support After School Program, Jo Ann Nelson, Executive Administrative Assistant and Jesse Garcia from Children Services.
 


Even though all these employees were spotlighted on Staff Day, EDC’s Board of Directors, would like to thank them, and every employee of Evelyn Douglin Center for coming to work and caring for the people in need that we all provide services to.

Staff Day would not have been possible without the following economic support from: The Law offices of Iris Shorin and of Counsel Ellen Holahan; Stanley Nack, of Catania-Nack Architects; Mike Marra, of Mariner Industries; Merrith Hockmeyer, Ph.D., of MHH Clinical Services; Philip Maguire, of Majestic Foods; and Louis Fratto, of MTM Pharmacy.
 
While the summer of 2003’s weather took a break, Evelyn Douglin Center didn’t, we launched our first Day Habilitation without walls program. Designed to encourage and facilitate program participants’ with real life opportunities that will help them learn and gain more independence from real life experiences. Thirteen participants will volunteer and work within their communities to fulfill goals designed by the Day Habilitation program’s team.

"It is EDC’s mission to provide the best person centered services suitable for our program participants. Services that will help them become more self reliant and productive members of society. Mentally and physically challenged people, if given a fair chance have much to offer society," charismatically stated, Melvin Wynne, Director of Day Habilitation Services.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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