Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin recently partnered with the Waukesha Training Center to merge the two agencies and bring together over a century of service experience.
"This is a merger, with a broad vision for the future, is about expanding and redefining services to create opportunities for the people we serve to have more independent lives. It is about providing more opportunities to our area," said Bob Glowacki, CEO of Easter Seals.
The Easter Seals Waukesha site will continue to provide employment to the current 300 participants.
"As our leadership and staff explored the resources required to accomplish our two agency initiatives: expand our reach geographically and offer more community based work opportunities. We discovered that a merger with Easter Seals provides a stronger foundation on which to grow and sustain our services in addition to increasing our community impact,” said Angie Brunhart, executive director, Waukesha Training Center.
This will be the second merger in five years for Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin, under Glowacki’s leadership. In 2004, Easter Seals merged with Kindcare.
"As we approached our 75th year, our agency’s leadership, board and staff alike, were not focusing on celebrating our past achievements, but looking forward to our future, The completion of this merger is a testament to our continuing effort to be a responsive, forward-thinking service agency," said Easter Seals board chair Melissa Koeppel.
