Our First Twenty Years
Community Vision, Inc. was founded by Joe Wykowski in 1989. Joe was contacted by the family of a young man who was living in Fairview named Donald Bos. Due to a rare, fatal disorder called Batten Disease, Donald only had a short time to live. He wanted to live out in the community and enjoy a “normal” life with his family. Joe worked closely with Donald and his family to build support services around his needs and because of that effort, Donald enjoyed many great moments in the final year’s of his short life.

Word got around about how individualized support had worked for Donald and soon Joe was helping more and more people to transition out of institutionalized living and into the community for the first time. The closure of Fairview Training Center accelerated the need for independent living options in the community and Community Vision began filling that need on a grander scale.  Today, Community Vision supports nearly eighty people on an ongoing basis.  We continue to work, advocate, and mentor so that one day everyone with a developmental disability will have the opportunity to thrive in their own home, working a job they find meaningful, and surrounded by people who love and respect them.