SEEK was founded in 2000 by a group composed of local parents of developmentally disabled children. These parents first began as SEEK Fellowship, a support group that met regularly at Evangelical Formosan Church in El Monte, California, and served as a source of mutual understanding and collective strength. These early members shared both sympathetic encouragement as well their individual experiences with practical treatments and educational methods. They found Applied Behavior Analysis to be a crucially effective treatment in addressing and alleviating their children’s disabilities. Unfortunately, most agencies that provide the ABA treatment are hampered by long waiting lists, often making services less accessible to those in need of them. The SEEK Fellowship was inspired in turn to create an organization that would make this influential treatment available to greater numbers of families.

Our organization was established with a board of directors consisting of a medical doctor, a health care professional, and several parents. The initial members painstakingly raised funds from friends, families, churches and the larger community to start its services. Over the course of the organization’s development, these members invested their energy and personal resources on a volunteer basis. To this day, these same individuals still actively direct and closely manage the development of SEEK.

As a non-profit agency, SEEK works to contribute a vital service to the community through the growth of quality programs for children with developmental disabilities. SEEK has grown tremendously in the past 7 years. We currently have roughly 100 employees, both full-time and part-time, serving more than 200 families in Southern California. 		 

 

 

  
     
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