Organizations Filed Purposes:
To protect, promote, and expand the legal and civil rights of persons with disabilities.
PADD-Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: DRNM provided direct assistance to 169 individuals with developmental disabilities or their families to overcome barriers to accessing the services they needed, to investigate and resolve abuse or neglect or address other violations of their legal rights. Over 58% of these individuals were from minority or underserved communities. DRNM continues to work on legal rights for persons with developmental disabilities. Some of the issues that DRNM worked on this period were: 1.Subminimum wage; 2. Restrictive guardianship issues; 3.Rights based individual advocacy; 4.Investigations of abuse/neglect; 5.Access to community based services; 6.Access to appropriate special education services.
PAIMI-Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness: In this program, DRNM provided assistance to 108 individuals with mental ilness. Over 52% of these individuals were from minority communities and about two-thirds were in residential treatment facilities at the time. Problems addressed in these cases included alleged abuse, neglect (including lack of adequate or appropriate treatment services), or other rights violations. DRNM conducted at least 55 trainings and outreach sessions in mental health facilities around the state. DRNM staff worked on the following individual and systemic issues: 1.Investigations of abuse/neglect; 2.Seclusion/restraint; 3.Guardianship and treatment guardianship issues; 4. Access to community based services; 5. Rights of individuals in in-patient mental health facilities; 6.Rights based individual advocacy; 7.Board and care facilities monitoring; 8.Mental health facility monitoring.
PAIR-Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights: The PAIR program at DRNM serves persons who have disabilities other than mental ilness or a developmental disability. DRNM assisted 342 individuals in this program during fiscal year addressing accessibility problems, barriers in accessing needed health care and support services and allegations of abuse or neglect. PAIR staff also conducted 8 trainings on disability services, health care, and the rights of persons with disabilities. DRNM had a total of 210 individuals receiving training or information on legal rights. DRNM provided information and training on expanded opportunities to access in the following areas: 1.Investigations of abuse/neglect; 2.Rights based advocacy; 3. Access to community based services; 4. Access to appropriate special education services; 5.Public access under ADA -Employee Compensation Information Worksheet - Employee Compensation Information Worksheet; 6.Appropriate access to Medical self-directed programs; 7.Access to accessible housing.
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 |
|---|
| Gary Housepian | CEO-current | 40 | $110,250 |
| Maria Joy | CFO | 40 | $80,112 |
| Jonathan Toledo | Secretary/Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Marijo Rymer | President | 2 | $0 |
| Tenika Sosa-Gonzales | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Jeanne A Hamrick | President-Former | 2 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Thomson | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Art Schreiber | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Danny Palma | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Gail Falconer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jeff Diamond | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Doris Dennison | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Terry J Chester | Director | 1 | $0 |
| John Foley | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michael J Rourke | Director | 1 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202100439349301875_public.xml