Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation exists to support young adults who have developmental disabilities living in and around the Kitsap County community of Bainbridge Island, Washington. Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation logo
Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation supports youth with disabilities.
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Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation provides opportunities for youth with disabilities and the community they live in.
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Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation provides opportunities for youth with disabilities and the community they live in.
Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation provides opportunities for youth with disabilities and the community they live in.

Bainbridge Island Special Needs Foundation
Board of Directors

Chairman and President
D. Paul Deits

Founding Chairperson and Co-President of the BI Special Needs Foundation
Principal, Lighthouse Consulting
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Vice President
Dale Cunningham

Founding Director and Vice President of BI Special Needs Foundation
2001 and 2007, Organizer for Community Summit on Disability Issues, Bainbridge Island
Research Scientist, Virginia Merril Bloedel / Hearing Research Center, University of Washington
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Secretary
Diane Walkowski

Founding Director and Secretary and Co-President of BI Special Needs Foundation
Bainbridge Island Special Education Council, held Treasurer and Secretary Positions
Career experience in Home Health care, Nursing Aid, parent of a son with developmental disability
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Director
Sherwood F. Young, M.D.

Founded Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation Unit at Virginia Mason Hospital
Medical Director, Green Mountain Rehabilitation Medicine, Bremerton, WA
Boards: Kitsap Health Planning Council and Puget Sound Health Systems
Career experience in Medicine, Physical rehabilitation, and Managed Care
BA Princeton University, MD Northwestern Univ. Med. School, Resident Mayo Clinic
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Director
Nuhad D. Dinno, M.D.

Emeritus Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington
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Director
Scott Taylor

Computer programming and database management, Photography, Video production, Web design
Former Volunteer Firefighter/EMT, former member of Bainbridge Foundation (One Call for All) board
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Director
Paulette Peterson, J. D.

Law Office of Paulette Peterson, PLLC - Bainbridge Island, Washington
Treasurer - King County Bar Association Guardianship and Elder Law Section
Member - Natinoal Association of Elder Law Attorneys
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Program Director, Stephens House
Shelley A. Long


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