Non-profit's Pomona office awarded grants

A local non-profit working to assist clients with autism as well as their
families will has been awarded two grants totaling $20,000.

The Montclair-based PVW, formally known as Pomona Valley Workshop, has been
selected for a $15,000 from the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, the
foundation announced this week.

PVW is a non-profit organization that serves more than 400 adults with
developmental disabilities including mental retardation, autism, cerebral
palsy, seizure disorders and other disabling conditions.

The Montclair-based organization also runs Anthesis Autism Services in
Pomona.

The foundation's grant will go to PVW's Anthesis program which works with
clients affected by autism spectrum disorders and with their families.

PVW also announced recently it was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Employees
Community Fund of Boeing California.

The donation will help PVW's efforts to raise awareness of autism spectrum
disorders, also referred to as ASD, according to a statement from the
organization.

"This grant will help to improve awareness of autism spectrum disorders,"
said Roneice Parchment, PVW's autism specialist, in the statement.

The number of children being diagnosed with ASD is increasing and PVW's
Anthesis Autism Services program "places special emphasis on providing
services to students diagnosed with autism who are transitioning out of high
school," Parchment said.

"The very word anthesis (meaning a flower at its most productive and
beautiful) describes PVW's desire to work consistently to strengthen and
improve the lives of persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and
their immediate family members," Parchment said.

For information about Anthesis Autism Services, contact Roneice Parchment by
e-mail at roneice@pvwonline.org or at 909-624-3108.

Anthesis Autism Services is at 520 E. Foothill Boulevard, Suite C, Pomona,
CA 91767.