Our Mission
Awesome4Autism will help improve the lives of families affected with autism in our communities with 100% dedication, through our support and high-quality/state-of-the-art services, at no cost with their unexpected journey to find their child's potential.
Through our Fun Zone we will break the disablility wall with autism awareness throughout the community to help the community realize these children are capable of becoming contributing and productive human beings in today’s society, once given the compassion, support, and friendships required. We will strive to divert a new generation of children with developmental disorder away from the government in need of government support the rest of their lives.
Vision
America will have close knit communities which embrace autism with respect and view these children with having unique amazing abilities with so much to contribute to this world when given the opportunity.
These children have a lot to contribute to society if just given the foundation and by opening doors for them.. It will take communities coming together across America to help children affected by their environment by no fault of their own, to alleviate the financial burden of the parent’s not making it their sole responsibility.
All other childhood diseases are usually covered by insurance, autism therapies are just recently beginning to be accepted by insurance, but very limitedly. Our goal should be beyond bureaucracy and more godly for our future good as a whole..
Board Members
Linda Hogan-Estrada
President/Chief Executive Officer
Mom on a mission to get this program off the ground
Kathleen Loyer
Secretary
Practices law in areas of Special Education, General Education, Civil Rights and Disability Law
Scott Winchell
Treasurer
Sterling Scott Winchell, A Professional Law Corp. Mr. Sterling Scott Winchell’s focus is in litigation with emphasis in area of employment law (defense and plaintiff’s bar), landlord/tenant law, and business disputes. He also handles general civil and criminal practice with additional emphasis in business litigation and estate planning.
Volunteers:
Toni Steliga
Volunteer Advocate, Worked 20 years with CAPOUSD (retired) directly with special ed students. Special needs children's are her passion, she has an innate ability to connect with them. Her son went through special education, who was deaf and she was advocating for her own son all through his school years. Took autism training, and worked directly with children on the spectrum for the last 12 years for the district.