For over 10 years, Networks has been designing and delivering relevant, practical, and innovative training, technical assistance, and service demonstration to help people with disabilities to have more fulfilling inclusive lives. Most know us for providing "learning events" where all involved acquire as much knowledge and insight from each other and through self-reflection as they do from the instructor. Or maybe it's the supportive mentoring (Technical Assistance) given to individuals, teams, and groups to help figure out an issue together. However "delivered" over the years, we have helped thousands take in new ideas and strategies and then stretch their wings, take a risk, and try them out in their organizations, homes, community places, and governmental agencies to help people they know and care about have a better life.

Networks is also known for "practicing what we preach", i.e. putting our own notions about how inclusion might work to the test within our own organization and in all our varied projects. We have committed ourselves to then openly share our very real experiences in future training and technical assistance to add that needed "real world" element to all our activities.

In these 10 years we have, to a large degree, seen the vision of Networks come alive in the many people we have worked with directly and indirectly as friends and colleagues. We have learned that an organization dedicated to promoting inclusive communities through quality training, technical assistance, and demonstration can make a difference: in the lives of people with disabilities, their families and friends; and in the way in which organizations and communities think about, support, and embrace all their members.

Last year we moved our main office and are now located in Valley Forge, PA. While our well-known and respected training series will still be offered at our same Philadelphia location and other contracted locations, we eagerly are looking to the opportunities and relationships our new location provides us.