Over three decades ago this past summer a mighty band of eight families joined together with the singular mission to create a state-of-the-art school for children diagnosed with intellectual disabilities and autism. Under the newly incorporated Foundation for Educating Children with Autism (FECA) the school would be a state of the art one to one teacher to student, publicly funded private school employing the then radically new model based on applied behavior analysis. Two years later, a partnership with the Devereux Foundation made possible the opening of the Devereux Millwood Learning Center with two entering class of 12 children. Today under the renamed Devereux Cares the school continues to educate 48 children, ages 5 through 21 from the metropolitan New York area.

As students grew and began graduating from the school, we expanded our mission and renamed FECA as the Foundation for Empowering Citizens with Autism to address the enormous challenges of the adult world. A day habilitation program was established to serve graduating students, scholarships were provided to support and address the growing need for trained professionals in the field, vans were purchased to enable community integration and substantial support was given to address the need for employment opportunities.

Our mission to serve when and as we can includes and reaches beyond our local communities.  The depth and breadth of our support for the extraordinary work of our collaborations is further proof of our unwavering commitment to our mission.  We celebrate these programs as we reach out to thank our long=time dedicated supporters and friends who have walked shoulder to shoulder with us over three decades continuing to make all of this possible.  More surely to come!