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  • Home
  • About Us
    • EEDA Advisory Committee
    • Executive Staff
  • Services
    • Self Directed Services
    • Residential Services
    • Day Habilitation
    • Community Habilitation and ISS
    • Crisis
    • Overnight Respite
    • Adult Socialization
  • Careers
  • WHAT'S NEW?
    • EEDA Archives
  • Donate
  • Advocacy
    • It's Complicated: Exploring Sexuality, Identity, and Relationship Issues for People with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Contact Us
  • ADMISSIONS
  • Employee Resources
  • Kinexion
  EEDA

About us

EEDA is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides supports and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. EEDA, a grassroots agency, was organized in 1992 by a small group of parents who were active advocates for their children and believed that everyone has the right to fully participate in quality education, medical, habilitation and recreational services.
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OUR MISSION
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Dedicated to creating practical solutions and providing innovative supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities on the East End of Long Island.
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OUR VISION
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​We envision a world where individuals with disabilities are appreciated and respected in their communities and supported by a highly trained, well compensated workforce where all members are valued by society.
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OUR VALUES
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Our values were developed collaboratively along with our frontline workforce, administrators and our management.
PROFESSIONALISM
EEDA’s workforce team is dependable, collaborative, knowledgeable and well trained. We are leaders and positive role models, taking our jobs seriously and communicating effectively.

COMPASSION
EEDA’s workforce has the special ability to connect genuinely with others. Our philosophy promotes sensitivity and understanding, and we always put the needs of the people we support above all else.

HONESTY
EEDA’s workforce is straightforward and trustworthy. We admit our mistakes, speak the truth even when it’s unpopular and always do the right thing when nobody is looking.

PRIDE
EEDA’s workforce is mission driven. We put our egos and self-pride aside, performing our jobs with integrity because we believe that our work is important.

CREATIVITY
EEDA’s workforce is talented and imaginative. Our flexibility  allows us to think differently and use unique approaches to enhance the lives of the people we support.

GOOD HUMOR
EEDA’s workforce is both good natured and lively. We embrace having fun at work with enthusiasm because we know that laughing at ourselves and with each other helps to keep things in perspective.

RESPECT
EEDA’s workforce promotes mutual understanding and equal regard for all members of the EEDA family. We honor differences in others, recognizing that everyone has something to contribute.

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EEDA Administrative Staff
Lisa Meyer Fertal, Executive Director
Joy O'Shaughnessy, Associate Executive Director

Dara Gary, Chief Financial Officer
​John Hatton, Director of Program Operations
Diane Lagoumis, Director of Self-Direction Services
​Jerry Kloss, Director of Human Resources


EEDA Board of Directors
Fredric Weinbaum, MD, President
Adrean Northridge, Vice President
James W. Martinsen, MD, Treasurer
Lynn Burnett, Secretary

Diane Arpaia, Director
​John Aicher, Director


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East End Disability Associates, Inc.
​107 Roanoke Avenue
​Riverhead, NY 11901

(631) 369-7345
info@eed-a.org