DAY PROGRAMS CAN BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED

I just experienced a really bad situation with a non-profit Agency that my son is part of.
I resorted to writing the Governor of NJ and the Acting Commissioner.  I intend to call the Museum where the Art was to be displayed.   I also wrote Channel 12 News in hopes to help any other disabled person who is unjustly abused in this horrific fashion by a DDD funded program.

This is part of the Letter I wrote to Governor Chris Christie:

Arts Unbound really did a number on Anthony.  They took 2 pieces of his Artwork for a 3 month Show at Morris Museum.  They wanted the same 2 pieces that were in his last show at their Gallery in Orange, NJ.  They took these 2 pieces several weeks ago.  Last week the Director, Margaret Mikkelsen called me looking for the frames they were in.  I said we did not get them back in the frames.  The Director said, "They will figure it all out".   Now I get an email stating that they didn't know Anthony's Drawing Teacher used his own Frames and he doesn't have them anymore.  So, now they are NOT putting Anthony's pictures in the Morris Museum Show.  No one told us the pictures needed Frames to begin with.  

In any event, why did this Director wait until the last minute to inform us after holding the pictures so many weeks that they needed frames to be in for the show and just cancel him out without prior notice at all?   This was a very low blow to Anthony.  This Non-Profit gets a lot of Government funds to provide services to the Disabled to help these kids with their Abilities and promote them and help them reach their goals.  We're talking about up to tens of thousands of dollars per client.  So, how could they do such a horrible thing to a promising Artist?  The Frames were cheap, thin, black frames to just hold the picture to hang it.  Plus, there is supposed to be a budget for supplies.  What happened to that?   Also, they are always having fund raisers, and getting donations to increase their monetary budget.  It reaches a point that these Non-Profits become so Selfish that they become detrimental to these poor kids.  Unreal and unfair.  What a let down from the place Anthony least expected.

So, Arts Unbound gave him more Anxiety and Depression.  This is contrary to what they post on their Web Page as their Mission Statement and Goals for the Disabled.   Plus they are always promoting the "Chosen Few" to the neglect of the others.   What a waste of Tax Payer Dollars this Place is.  Especially increasing the Emotional Problems of a Disabled Child with this Outrageous Antic they just pulled on him.   My son does not deserve this.   You would do better paying for these kids to go to a real college program than wasting the Money to benefit these Greedy Non Profits who can't even put a cheap frame on a piece of Artwork for a Disabled kid to be in a Promised Show.