North Star support group celebrates 10 years of helping Valley families

By Patricia Villers
Register Staff
ANSONIA — It has been 10 years since resident Cathy Adamczyk co-founded North Star Support Group for parents of children with disabilities, especially those on the autism spectrum.
Adamczyk, a mother of five, founded the group with Anne LoPresti, who then was care coordinator with the Lower Naugatuck Valley System of Care Collaborative.
The collaborative is part of the Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent-Child Resource Center in Derby.
Parent-Child Resource Center Executive Director Michael Wynne said LoPresti only stayed with the group for a few months, because “the original idea was over time, the group wouldn’t need a staff person.”

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