AHRC New York City Welcomes New Executive Director

NEW YORK, NY (12/11/2017) (readMedia)-- We are pleased to announce that the AHRC New York City Board of Directors has hired its next Executive Director. With a great deal of excitement and confidence and after an exhaustive search spanning several months the AHRC Board of Directors announced in November that Marco R. Damiani was selected to fill this position.

Mr. Damiani assumed his new position in early December 2017. AHRC New York City is one of the largest providers of services and supports to people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD) in the country. Touching the lives of more than 15,000 people and their families a year, with an annual operating budget of nearly $300 million dollars, a staff of 4,000 and more than 150 locations across the five boroughs, AHRC New York City has enriched the lives of people from birth through the senior years for close to seventy years. Under Mr. Damiani's leadership, the organization is looking forward to embracing and executing the transition to managed care that has been proposed by the government agencies regulating services for people with IDD. Mr. Damiani has the vision and experience necessary to lead the organization through this time of change and the promise of new models of improving quality and outcomes for the people the organization is committed to supporting.

Mr. Damiani is a highly accomplished and well respected senior health and human services executive. His career reflects many years of progressive not-for-profit I/DD and government experience in the fields of healthcare, behavioral health, community based services and long-term care as an agency executive here in New York City. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Metro Community Health Centers, Inc.; is the Chairman of the Alliance for Integrated Care of New York; a former YAI Executive Vice President and Senior Director of Clinical & Family Services; and former Assistant Executive Director for Residential and Family Support Services at United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, amongst many other positions of ever increasing responsibility and influence spanning the last thirty-five years.

Mr. Damiani serves on several Boards related to the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities and is currently the Chair of the influential Manhattan Developmental Disabilities Council. He has played a leadership role in the identification, development and acquisition of millions of dollars in grant funding from government and non-governmental funding sources. He is highly knowledgeable in policy and practice around managed care, value based payments and transformational supports. He is committed to professionals in our field and to the people we support and their families. All of this will no doubt contribute to his success at AHRC New York City.