Announcing The September 26th Project

Written By Jill Escher, President

We are pleased to announce The September 26th Project — the annual emergency preparedness checkup for autism and special needs families.
A cooperative effort by many autism-serving organizations and led by the National Council on Severe Autism, the Project is intended to help keep our families safe in the event of emergency, and was created in honor of Feda Almaliti, past VP of NCSA, and her son Muhammed. The pair passed away on September 26, 2020 in a house fire, a tragedy that rocked the autism community. Learn more about Feda and Mu in the video above and also here.
On an annual basis, every September 26th, we ask our families to consult our website and checklists and take simple steps to help keep their families and loved ones safe.
Learn more: September26.org

Jill Escher, President

Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism and the mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Through the Escher Fund for Autism she promotes and funds research on the genetic toxicology of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, and she has served on the governing council of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society, where she co-chairs its Germ Cell and Heritable Effects special interest group. She was president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2019 and, through her family business, Claradon Properties, provides housing to adults with developmental disabilities in the Bay Area. See more of her work at jillescher.com.

https://www.jillescher.com/
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