Ways to Honor the Late Feda Almaliti and Her Son Muhammed

Remembering and Honoring Feda and Mu

[Event and virtual event information to be posted soon]

Address for letters and other mail:

Salah Family
1141 Apple Ave
Hayward, CA 94541

Post your respects, memories, and photos online on Forever Missed:
https://www.forevermissed.com/feda-mu/about

Donations:
We know that Feda would have appreciated donations to any of the following in her and Mu's honor.

National Council on Severe Autism
Feda was so proud to have been a founding board member of the NCSA. She was devoted to bringing the realities of severe autism to light, to help forge desperately needed advances in programs, care and national policy.
https://www.ncsautism.org/donate

Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area
As Vice President of SFASA, Feda loved creating local events to help her fellow autism families. These included the SFASA Pool Parties, Autism on Tap series, and of course the annual conferences. Feda Fund donations will be used toward creating future events Feda would have loved.
https://www.sfautismsociety.org/donate.html

Autism Law Summit (Feda Almaliti Scholarship Fund)
Feda had hundreds of autism friends around the country whom she knew because of the annual Autism Law Summit. Feda wowed the audience at the 2018 Summit with a luncheon keynote that had everyone laughing and crying at once. In her honor, the Autism Law Summit has established the Feda Almaliti Scholarship Fund to bless one or more parent advocates with a scholarship to attend the Summit.
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/fedascholarshipfund

Autism Mental Health Insurance Project
Feda got her start in autism advocacy by fearlessly pushing for insurance reform in California, to expand access to behavioral health treatments for all affected by autism. Your donations will go towards a scholarship fund to assist low income families with advocacy services. Feda served on the board of directors and helped to guide its vision from 2013 until her death.  
www.mhautism.org

Hear and see other remembrances of Feda and Mu:

National Public Radio'sAll Things Considered here

NCSA Facebook Page

Autism Science Foundation Podcast here(by Alycia Halladay)

East Bay Times here

CBS San Francisco here

NBC Bay Area here

Daily Mail (UK) here

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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