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Mike Briggs

Mike Briggs is the President and CEO of Little Friends. Little Friends empowers clients with autism and other developmental disabilities to thrive in our community. Their groundbreaking programs and nationally-renowned staff provide lifelong opportunities for growth, so their clients can work, learn, play and experience the joy of life’s everyday moments.

Little Friends – Importance of family support

Little Friends is on a fiscal year that ends at the end of every June. Like every other business, we look at opportunities where...

Little Friends: Getting a glimpse of new technologies for service providers

In mid-June, I had the privilege of attending a conference organized and run by Open Minds. This organization is one that provides consulting services...

Little Friends to work with Northwestern University

For several years now, Little Friends has been having discussions with members of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on how we could...

Little Friends: Be inspired to help

During the past month, I had the privilege of being invited to speak to several individuals with foundations where their location for the winter...

Little Friends: Our new world… doing more with less

There are months writing this column when the topic to cover is easy to write about. Reflecting on the fact that this month starts...

Little Friends: April is Autism Acceptance Month

Updated Post, April 5, 2022 / During the first meeting of the Naperville City Council in April, Councilman Ian Holzhauer read a Mayoral Proclamation...

Little Friends: The next steps with a new venture

For the past several years at Little Friends, we have been involved with the use of improvisation as a tool to help our students...

Little Friends: Diagnosis of Autism is on the rise again

Just over a month ago new statistics were announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that showed the prevalence of Autism was...

Little Friends: ‘The Giving Tree’

It seems beyond hard to believe that we are in the middle of our holiday season. By the time this goes to print, Thanksgiving...

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Just as Positively Naperville goes to print for its November issue, we will be completing the National Disability Employment Awareness month at the end...

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