Today is a new day and a new era at Tri-Valley Developmental Services. We are rebranding ourselves. We are not the same agency we were twenty or thirty years ago. During the 1970’s, options for persons with developmental disabilities were very limited. There was no special education system, most persons with developmental disabilities remained at home with their families or were sent to the state hospitals. In the 1980’s and 90’s we witnessed the advent of supported employmen

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.” –Dr. Martin Luther King With an agency of over 150 employees that serves approximately 200 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, you would think that we would not have time to give something back to our communities where we live, work and play; nothing could be further from the truth. When I recentl