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Annette Bowling, Vice President
Annette Bowling has served as Executive Director for the Albany Advocacy
Resource Center (ARC) with distinction for over 35 years. Under Annette
Bowling’s direction the ARC has become a model private nonprofit community
service agency, serving hundreds of people with disabilities through
residential, case management, day services and empowerment programs.
Annette Bowling is Georgia’s strongest advocate for rehabilitation and
disability service issues and provides assistance in various capacities with:
Georgia Budget & Policy Institute, Board of Directors; Georgia Brain, and the
Spinal Cord Injury Trust Commission. She serves as chairperson on the Public
Policy Committee, is an active board member for Albany Health Education Center,
is a founding member of the State Commission on MH/DD/AD Reform and founded and
served as president on the Georgia ARC Network for persons with Mental
Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Annette assisted in forming
Georgia’s Independent Living Program and helped establish the Center for Housing
Alternatives, a private agency that assists communities in developing
residential options for persons with disabilities and served as chairperson of
the Oversight Committee for Brookrun and Georgia Mental Health Institution
closures. She also co-chaired the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Taskforce on Community
Based Services; 1990 Graduate Leadership Albany.
Annette is included in the Nationwide Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and
Businesses 2001-2002 and was named one of Georgia Trend’s 2008 100 Most
Influential Georgians.
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