EXPANDING OUR REACH & IMPACT
With our Richmond campus serving more than 30 Central Virginia localities, we had to find a way to extend our evidence-based approach beyond this region. Shortly after starting to explore expansion options, we uncovered a promising opportunity in Newport News.
We found a great partner in The Peninsula School for Autism which had been independently serving the Hampton Roads area since 2010.
The school was already beginning to use ABA therapy and intensive data collection to serve its clients, so it was a natural fit for Faison.
As the small school sought to have a gold-standard impact in a longunderserved community, tapping into broader expertise and capabilities could make that happen. Bringing the two organizations together simply made sense and efforts to merge the two began in 2018.
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