ADEC is a worthwhile investment of our money
We define ourselves as a community by the care we show for those most in need of our help - so why would the Elkhart County Council consider cutting funding to an organization that serves Elkhart County’s disabled people? Let’s start [...]
ADEC funding debated at Elkhart County Council budget hearings
County budget talks Wednesday gave way to a heated debate about the county’s responsibility to ADEC, a county-wide organization that helps residents with developmental and cognitive disabilities. Elkhart County has contributed to ADEC since the 1970s when the taxpayer-funded county home was disbanded, according to [...]
ADEC, Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department, other Elkhart County organizations ask county council for more money
On the first day of Elkhart County’s 2015 budget hearings, council members heard budget proposals from county-wide organizations such as the Elkhart County Clerk, Juvenile Court and ADEC. The first day of Elkhart County’s 2015 budget hearings was fueled by plenty of caffeine, passionate [...]
Project Search: Back to School
Molly Schmidt, a Project Search student, checks in for her work rotation at Memorial Hospital South Bend. (ADEC photo by Rod Tackett) by Whitney Craig/ADEC Communications Specialist Molly Schmidt wakes early to prepare for work. She dresses in brown [...]
Sharing Ideas To Transform Lives
By Nancy Miller/Communications Manager If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then ADEC soon will be getting rave reviews. Nataliya Bordun, a visiting professor from the Ukraine, learned new ways to serve adults with intellectual disabilities by seeing what works [...]
“Hello Gorgeous!”
By Whitney Craig/Communications Specialist Deb Buras before her Hello Gorgeous makeover. “Hello Gorgeous!” cried out the crowd of ladies gathered at Fix Salon and Spa in Elkhart on Wednesday, May 21. Deb Buras, the Invoicing/Production Records Coordinator at ADEC [...]