Tricia joined the Board of Directors at The Arc of Opportunity in September 2020. Tricia is a nurse practitioner that works in a family practice here in Fitchburg. She spent the last 13 years in Nashville Tennessee where she obtained her master’s degree at Tennessee State University and worked in a long-term care facility caring for the elderly. While in Nashville, she served on the Board of Directors for a nonprofit medical clinic, which served people who were uninsured. When she is not working or volunteering her time, she enjoys traveling, reading, puzzles, and spending time with her teen daughter.
Developmental Disabilities (DD), first defined in 1975 federal legislation now known as “The DD Act”, are a group of lifelong conditions that emerge during the developmental period and result in some level of functional limitation in learning, language, communication, cognition, behavior, socialization, or mobility.