Aya Living Inc. is dedicated to the nurture of the basic human instinct to aspire, adapt, achieve, and the provision of all relevant means to this accomplishment.
About Us
Our aim is to help you attain personal fulfillment and life satisfaction of your design and choice. We achieve this by encouraging you to set your own goals and targets and facilitating the highest level of self-sufficiency in the process.
Aya Living Inc. deliver a range of residential services and developmental programs that are tailored to suit individual needs and geared towards increasing personal independence and community inclusion. We collaborate with a variety of partners and organizations to ensure a comprehensive profile to meet maximum requirements.
Vision
To be nationally recognized as a center of excellence and innovation in the service of people with development disabilities.
Values
- Our integrity and accountability
- Your rights, individuality and choices
- All community support and partner efforts in the pursuance of equality, whilst respecting diversity, for people with developmental disabilities.
Our services are reliable and versatile; Our strategies, innovative.
People choose Aya Living Inc. because our team is friendly and experienced. Our services are reliable and versatile; our strategies, innovative. Our organization is large enough to deliver consistently and professionally but still small enough to care about every single person and every single detail. We’re growing due to referrals from our partners and recommendations from our customers.
Friendly & Experienced Team
Matt Williams
Founder and CEO
Matt Williams is the founder of Aya Living Inc. and brings more that than 10 years of executive experience and leadership in developing and managing residential services. Prior to starting Aya Living Inc. Matt held a number of management positions within the industry coordinating, developing and directing services and has more than 20 years of experience.
Matt’s vision for Aya Living Inc. is to provide a tailored service that is flexible enough to evolve as our client’s ideas of what they want for their life evolves. Matt earned his B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University.
Brittni Ellis
CLIENT SERVICE COORDINATOR
Brittni Ellis studied at the University of Phoenix and obtained her B.S in Psychology. Her career started in social services in 2009 supporting individuals with developmental disabilities in group homes and day programs. In 2012, she began her career in education serving youth on the Autism Spectrum. She joined Aya as a support team coordinator in 2018. She enjoys working with Aya and believes in their mission to adapt and tailor all services to the needs of the client, being person-centered and focused on self-fulfillment. Brittni is passionate in helping those achieve what they want in life and living a life of enjoyment.
Veronica Luna
HR GENERALIST
Veronica Luna received her associate degree from Southwestern Community College with a major in Business Administration and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Phoenix in Business Management. She has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and office Administration. Veronica joined Aya Living Inc., in 2019. Although her previous experience is in the R&D Defense Aerospace industry, she enjoys the altruistic character in the services provided by Aya. Her strong background in compliance and broad experience in Human Resources, brings an immense knowledge base, while ensuring a best practices application within Aya management and its employees.
Katie Rush
PROGRAM SERVICE COORDINATOR
Katie Rush studied psychology at Sonoma State University and went on to attend California State University, Northridge, to receive her Master’s in Clinical Social Work. She holds a license in Clinical Social Work and has spent her career working in schools and agencies that support individuals with behavioral and mental health challenges, developmental disabilities and learning differences. Ms. Rush has held positions as a Mental Health Clinician, Behavior Analyst and Assistant Director of a special education school serving individuals on the Autism Spectrum and related disorders. She joined Aya in 2019 as a Service Coordinator. She enjoys supporting Aya’s teams and believes strongly in the company mission to assist clients achieve self-fulfillment. Ms. Rush is passionate about assisting others through a strengths-based approach, utilizing one’s inherent strengths and abilities while fostering self-determination.
Winsome Douglas
Registered Nurse
Winsome Douglas studied nursing in the United Kingdom, earning three nursing registrations in the fields of Mental Health, Pediatric and General Nursing. She has spent her career at some point specializing in all three areas. She supervised and taught nurses in each area as her career progressed. Mrs. Douglas immigrated to the United States where she successfully earned a B.A in Management and Organizational studies and a Masters degree in Leadership and Organizational studies at Fresno Pacific University. She has held various positions as Charge Nurse, Quality Coordinator, Department manager, and Risk Coordinator.
She joined Aya in 2017 as a Nurse Consultant. She enjoys being a resource for the personnel who support Aya’s clients and supports the company’s mission to assist clients with various challenges to live to their maximum capacity. Mrs. Douglas is passionate about staff development by assisting them to practice treating others as they want to be treated.
