Project Consultants

Ruthie-Marie Beckwith and Jill Rodgers currently develop and support Microboards throughout the State of Tennessee.   Ruthie Beckwith developed the Tennessee Microboards Association, an 'underpinning' organization that supports over 70 Microboards throughout that State.

Gale and Holly Bohling have developed Human Service Cooperatives throughout Arizona and in Tennessee.  They have also created a national cooperative that provides a network of resources to support the development and ongoing management of HSC certified Co-ops.

Jack Pearpoint and Lynda Kahn are co-leaders of Inclusion Press International, based in Toronto. Jack is one of the principal authors of PATH, MAPS, Circles of Friends and other great tools for facilitation and planning. Lynda served for 9 years as state director in Rhode Island's Division of Developmental Disabilities and helped close its only institution in 1995.

David and Faye Wetherow created the concept of Microboards and Human Service Cooperatives and developed the first Microboards and Co-ops in Canada in the mid-1980s.  They specialize in Community-Building and PATH, project design and management consultation.