Meet Our Team
How two women brought change to the Intellectual Disabilities System.
It started with two women and a vision. A vision that everyone belongs in the community, everyone deserves the right to a happy and meaningful life, and everyone’s voice should be heard. Audrey Coccia and Maureen Devaney created Vision For EQuality (VFE) in 1996 to change the lack of understanding and support people with disabilities and their families experienced in the community. What we take for granted; the sense of belonging and acceptance for who we are; being treated with respect; the opportunity to express our own spirituality; have the power, authority and resources to control our own destiny; and having options and security in our lives are not the norm for people with disabilities. Audrey Coccia and Maureen Devaney vowed to change that reality. Vision For Equality was one of the first agencies in the nation to develop programs that enabled people with disabilities and their families to directly monitor services provided to the disabilities community.
Board of Directors
Jennifer Logan
Larry Pace
Carlotta Boker
Mary Lou Haughney
Mary Jones-Furlow
Lynne M. Ryan Youngman
Andrew J. Barron, JD, LLM
Nicholas Saidel, JD, MA
Kathy L. Sykes
Nathaniel J. Williams, Ed.D., MHS, MPA, MBA
Executive Directors
Audrey “Dee” Coccia
Maureen Devaney
Directors
Jill Long
Francine Hogan
Nancy LeClair
Sheila Stasko
Administrative Staff
Jill Long
Heather Williams
Maria Pacheco
Beatrice Saddic
Matthew Saddic
Ryan Esmond
Sean Esmond
Advocacy
Ed McNicholas
Sue Moore
Maria Pacheco
Marisol Ramos
Consumer and Family Satisfaction Team
Kenyatta Haley
enVision New Possibilities
Doreatha Davis
Joan Nelson
June Waters-Bey
Independent Monitoring for Quality (IM4Q) – Philadelphia
Marie Nocitra
Nancy LeClair
Jamie Kentz
Lisa Dowdle
Barbara Jackson
Beatrice Saddic
Carol Costello
Mary Lou Graeber
Tamar Riley
Mary Badame
Latino Services
Marisol Ramos
Betty Frometa
Julio Nieves
Maria Pacheco
PA Families Need Nurses Now
Meghann Luczkowski
Victoria Schiano
Danna Casserly
Gloria Shotz
PA Family Network
PA Family Advisors Across the Commonwealth