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The Vision

Networks for Training and Development is a non-profit (501c3) organization dedicated to promoting inclusive communities through quality training, consultation, and practice for individuals with disabilities, families, businesses, neighborhoods, and communities.

Networks’ vision has evolved as evidenced through our various services, our responsiveness to current realities, and our “push” to birth social change in creating a more just world for everyone: people with disabilities, their families, friends, organizations and communities.​

Our Culture

Networks is a small non-profit organization where like-minded passionate visionaries can work together in a collaborative and fun way. Our team designs training and consultation as 'learning events' where all involved can acquire knowledge and insight from each other, through self-reflection, and from the facilitator.

We are an organization with a rich history...

1992
  • Networks incorporated November 12th

1993
  • First contract, statewide PA Person Centered Planning Survey for organizations

1994
  • Left Horizon House's ‘nest’
  • Became fully on our own

1995
  • "Dreams Coming True" celebration
  • CareerNet Employment Demonstration Project started

1996
  • First Employment Supports Symposium in Philadelphia

1998
  • Begin offering Communication Support training and technical assistance

2001
  • Transfer CareerNet to SPIN

2002
  • Valley Forge office becomes our official corporate headquarters

2004
  • "All Our Own" Microboard Project begins

2005
  • Communication Mentors' Courses take off in multiple counties via multiple CCAP Grants
  • Transition Planning Projects begin

2006
  • Sunbury office opens in Northumberland County

2007
  • Philadelphia Employment 1st Initiative, "Vision for Employment 2010" PATH launches

2008
  • Excel-based CIE Data System developed
  • Wholistic Practices Services started

2009
  • Employment Mentors' Course launched
  • Statewide Employment Symposium held
  • Co-Founder / Executive Director Mike McAllister passes away

2010
  • MIG statewide employment strategic planning stakeholder group meetings
  • Shauna Roman takes the helm as Executive Director
  • PA Employment 1st Initiative
  • Updated Philadelphia Employment 1st Initiative, "Employment 1st, Philadelphia!" PATH (2010 - 2015)
  • Networks' online learning takes off in earnest

2011
  • EmployStat (CIE data system) goes online!

2012
  • Networks' Facebook presence launches
  • Networks' closes Center-City Philadelphia office

2013
  • Networks pitches EmployStat to ODP for statewide implementation

2015
  • Networks & Philadelphia host APSE Conference
  • ACRE SE 101 Course Approved
  • Networks offers its first CESP exam
  • Updated Philadelphia Employment 1st initiative "Employment 1st, Employment NOW!" PATH (2015 - 2019)

2016
  • Networks starts a two-year transition project with students and staff at Olney Charter high School

2017
  • Non-Profit Incubator services formally established
  • Las Aguas formally supported via Networks' Non-Profit Incubator
  • Transiton Curriculum created as a result of work with Olney Charter High School

2018
  • Networks' 25th anniversary... a year of thank you's and final celebration!
  • 1st Wholistic Practices Retreat in Maui

2019
  • 1st Las Aguas Fund Retreat in Cuba
  • Dreams coming true celebration & audiobook release

2020
  • Valley Forge office is closed
  • Going 100% virtual

2021
  • CoLab Project begins
  • Philly Love and Mahalo Maui Essential Worker campaigns are launched

2022
  • 1st ACRE virtual course is online & asynchronous
  • Speakng For Ourselves joins us as part of Networks' non-profit incubator
  • "To Norry with Love" Essential Worker campaign launches