Mayor Ron Jones of Beachwood promotes community inclusion and civic responsibility

Option Quest is a Community Options day program that supports people with disabilities in community-based volunteer activities. On a day when the staff were just doing their job and helping to facilitate an activity for the people supported in the program, someone took notice. Mayor Ronald Jones of Beachwood witnessed an interaction with an Option Quest Specialist and a person supported and was completely impressed by what he saw and how loving and caring this staff person was.

As a result of witnessing this interaction, Mayor Jones invited the entire Option Quest program to assist in the planting of all of the annual flowers at the Beachwood Municipal Complex.

"What I witnessed between the staff and the person she was helping was amazing and inspired me to invite the entire group to Beachwood to assist with planting annual flowers," says, Mayor Jones. "More communities should get involved with organizations like Community Options to support people with disabilities," he added.

"We are so grateful for this opportunity to be involved with the community of Beachwood and that someone like Mayor Jones has taken notice of the high caliber of day programming our organization offers," says, Robert Stack, President and CEO of Community Options.

Option Quest was one of the first day programs that Community Options started as it gives people with disabilities an incredible opportunity to become fully integrated in their community.

"We hope that we can continue to work with the Beachwood community on other volunteer projects that may become available," says, Steven Verba, Region Director of Community Options.

"This is the beginning of a great partnership," says, Natalie Pico, Option Quest Coordinator for Community Options.