TFC Community Spotlight - Marbridge Foundation

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Please join us as we spotlight Marbridge, a 200-acre residential training and education community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities near Austin, Texas.  

Click HERE to watch an overview video of Marbridge.  

Speaker Scott McAvoy's Bio:  

Scott’s background and service providing care, direction, and leadership spans the course of his adult life.  His education includes a degree in psychology from the University of Maine and an MBA from the University of New Orleans. Scott’s experience in serving the adult population of adults with varying abilities is extensive. His professional career as a psychiatric counselor at River Oaks Psychiatric Hospital in New Orleans led to his move to become the CEO of CPC Coliseum Medical Center, Assistant Managing Director of River Oaks Hospital. He later moved to Austin to assume the CEO position at Meridell Achievement Center.  Prior to joining Marbridge, Scott was Program Manager for Empowerment Options, a home and community services company providing residential alternatives to people with intellectual disabilities.  In 2004 Scott joined Marbridge, a 200-acre residential training and education community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities near Austin, TX  as the Director of Mabee Village.  He was later promoted to Vice President of Operations, Executive VP, and, in 2023, was appointed President/CEO.  In 2012, Scott was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities.  He was reappointed by Governor Greg Abbott in 2016 and again in 2019.  Scott has also served on the board of the national advocacy group Together for Choice and Texas Coalition for Culture Change as well as membership in the Coalition for Community Choice and the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.  He is a graduate of The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Delaware.

The purpose of our community spotlight events is to share models of high quality I/DD communities across the country, so that those of you who are looking to create or expand an I/DD community can learn from various examples.  There are many different ways to serve individuals with I/DD.  No one size fits all.  What may work for your loved ones may not work for others and vice versa.  The key is to learn from those who have gone through this process.  Their successes and failures can teach us so much and we do not have to reinvent the wheels!