Organizations Filed Purposes:
With parent to parent support, education, and guidance, parents will gain a better understanding of their child with special needs and become more confident in their ability to care for and obtain the necessary services. With more knowledge and confidence, parents will not only become stronger advocates for their child, but will also become leaders in training, policy development and programs.
Empowering families of children with special needs to successfully understand & access the systems that serve them.
As part of the Northern California Coalition, Matrix serves as a federally-designated Parent Training & Information Center, providing information, training &support around disability issues to families of children with disabilities in Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties. In addition, Matrix is funded through the California Department of Education to serve as a Family Empowerment Center. The activities conducted include more than 4000 contacts with families occurring in the last fiscal year, ranging from 1:1 consultations, facilitating support groups, providing trainings and workshops and attending critical meetings with some families, with an overall goal to assist families in seeking appropriate services and becoming their childs best advocates.
Matrix is designated as an Early Start Family Resource Center, providing emotional support and information to families with children, birth to three years old, who have special needs in the counties of Marin, Solano, and Sonoma. We help families learn important strategies in navigating complex systems, provide them resources to access necessary services and prepare them for many transitions over the life of their child.
Funded by the US Department of Education, Matrix is part of a national project of technical assistance provided to 27 other federally funded parent centers in the western United States and the Pacific Island area. Topics of technical assistance include research-based best practices in the areas of providing quality services to families, parent-professional collaboration, nonprofit management, board development, and fundraising.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Steve Diamond | Executive Dir. | 40 | $86,643 |
| Cori Van Allen | Dir. of Finance | 40 | $49,149 |
| Nicole Wehr | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Heather Johnson | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Elie Gelardin | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Beth Philip | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Sarah Ponsford | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Colleen Arnold | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Alexis Lynch | President | 2 | $0 |
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