Wayne Ormsby elected to TRC board
JAMESTOWN — Wayne Ormsby was elected to The Resource Center’s board of directors at the agency’s annual meeting.
Ormsby has served on TRC’s compliance, ethics, risk and safety committee for the past four years. His election to the board is for a two-year term.
Ormsby retired in 2009 after a 32-year career with the state agency now known as the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. Prior to joining the state, he worked for The Resource Center.
“My professional work involvement started in 1973 when I worked about two years for Mary Andrews at the Work Training Center at the Holy Cross WorkCentre in Dunkirk. My role was vocational evaluation and training of workshop participants,” Ormsby said.
“After completing graduate school in 1977, I began work with the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities as an agency liaison for voluntary agencies throughout Western New York. This included providing The Resource Center with technical assistance and capital funding to develop the Foote Avenue residences, Jones and Gifford Avenue Day Treatment Center, and numerous other residences through the OMRDD NYSCares residential development program. It also included the funding of many maintenance projects for all TRC agency facilities.”
Ormsby, who is also a New York State municipal building code enforcement official, earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from SUNY Fredonia and a master of science degree in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Buffalo.
“We are extremely fortunate to have Wayne on our board of directors,” said Denise Jones, TRC’s chief executive officer. “His extensive work experience in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities is a great complement to the expertise of others on the board.”
Ormsby’s community service activities include serving on the SUNY Fredonia Friends of Rockefeller Arts Center. He is a patron of the 1891 Fredonia Opera House and has volunteered with the United Way of Northern Chautauqua County, the Dunkirk Lighthouse and the billy mead Run for ALS Research. His hobbies include reading, golfing, traveling, gardening and going to the gym.
Ormsby and his wife, Debra, live in Silver Creek.
The Resource Center has been supporting people with disabilities and their families since 1958. TRC also provides a variety of health and counseling services that are available to anyone, regardless of whether they have a disability. The Resource Center also provides subcontracting work to local industry and the federal government at manufacturing facilities in Jamestown, Dunkirk and Buffalo.
For more information, phone 483-2344 or visit www.resourcecenter.org.
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