[Soft music plays in the background] (Gavin Kerr President & CEO Inglis Foundation) The ACE awards are really an extraordinary part of our mission. (Belden Jones Chairman Inglis Consumer Advisory Committee) If you don’t have a great support system you really couldn't live out in the community on your own. (Susan Tachau Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation) The Inglis Foundation is many things. (Janet Ries Stern) We reach out to very large network of individuals. (Beth Dahle) To serve the disabled community (Susan Tachau) Inglis more than a house (Gavin Kerr) People live at Inglis, whether in our residence or in housing, they are a wonderful community of people who really care enormously. (Belden Jones) The Foundation helps people live in the community (Luisa Rabe Former Inglis Board Chair) Going to the grocery store, getting up out of bed in the morning and getting to bed at night. (Laura Schwanger Five-time Paralympic Athlete) Promoting quality of life and promoting these programs that really can change your life. (Beth Dahle) And also raise the profile of those involved in the community so that they have better access to housing, to services, to healthcare (Belden Jones) They live their lives independently (Nancy Kirby Assistant Dean, Social Work & Research, Bryn Mawr College) Maximize opportunities for individuals with disabilities (Suzanne Rotundo Chair ACE Award Committee) The ACE program is about recognizing empathy and action, it’s about creating hope and opportunity for people to live a full life. (Gavin Kerr) The ACE award program is really a way to ensure that we invest in other organizations that invest in the consumers that we care so much about. By being able to invest in those folks who are really doing the best work we’re able to then allow them to continue to pursue excellence but also to use that as the best practice that we can share much more broadly with other organizations so they can see what great looks like. (Janet Ries Stern Founder of ACE Program) I thought one way to really become familiar with what other organizations are doing is to offer an incentive for them to get to know us and for us to get to know them. (Gavin Kerr) The ACE program is all about possibilities and opportunities. Possibilities in terms of giving people the potential, the possibility to try new things, to do new things, to experience new things in their lives that they thought would never be able to do. And from an opportunity point of view it creates opportunities for them to pursue those dreams and for the organizations that make it possible to fund them so they can deliver those services. Winners: CONTACT Community Helplines (Cherry Hill, NJ) – telephone reassurance program and 24-hour crisis helpline serves 12,000 people per year. 30% Of Contact's 190 volunteers have physical disabilities can work from home. Volunteers make daily calls to homebound frail and elderly adults with disabilities to check on health and send emergency aide, if needed. Lehigh Valley Health Network – (Allentown, PA) – Uses Patient-Centered Medical home model to meet patients' physical, emotional or social healthcare needs. Helps patients help themselves to be healthy as possible. Focuses on quality of care for patients with disabilities and educating medical students and residents about their care. JEVS Human Services (Philadelphia, PA) – Helps individuals with disabilities maintain their independence and lead fulfilling lives. Enhances employability, assist with nursing home transition, home modifications and finding attendant care. Pegasus Riding Academy, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) – Provides therapeutic horseback riding for children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities. Serves over 100 participants every week year-round, and 135 per week during its summer program. Three full-time, four part-time staff, and 85 volunteers assist with programs. Shriners Hospital for Children (Philadelphia, PA) – Pediatric specialty hospital providing orthopedic and spinal cord injury care for children. Enhances functional abilities, participation level, and quality of patients' lives. Provide services at no cost to patients' families. (Gavin Kerr) what makes the ACE program so exciting because it allows Inglis, through other organizations, to touch people in ways that we could never know. (Diane Gallagher HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy) Winning the ACE award from the Inglis Foundation is an enormous reaffirmation for all we do At HMS School. (Barbara Diveley The Acquired Brain Injury Network) The Inglis award is so meaningful because it takes you from one place in time and shifts you into the future a little faster than you would have gone otherwise think so. Winning the ACE award has been fantastic for our organization. (Sandy McCloskey Quest Therapeutic Services, Incorporated) Winning the ACE award really strengthens our ability to do our mission to help children with speclal needs to improve their quality of life. (Ron Siggs VP, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital) The ACE award and the financial award that we received with it help us as it goes directly to support our wheelchair athletes. (Susan Tachau) It’s very exciting to come to Inglis and to meet other organizations that do like-minded things but our worlds may Not connect. So that by meeting some of the awardees and past awardees we see how we can help each other and collaborate on other programs. (Heather Zoumas-Lubseki Director of Community Outreach, Bryn Mawr Rehab) It’s just been a really nice win-win situation between the Inglis Foundation and the art program here and the Art Ability program at Bryn Mawr Rehab. (Gavin Kerr) It touches their lives in so many ways. It gives them a sense of excitement and sense of purpose and hope and sense of confidence that they can do anything. (Suzanne Rotundo) I think the ACE awards is really about hope, energy, and compassion. (Ron Siggs) The ACE award is inspirational. (Sandy McCloskey) The ACE award opens door. (Heather Zoumas-Lubeski) The ACE award means extreme generosity. (Susan Tachau) The ACE award allows us to be creative and allows us to think of new ways to help people be independent.