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Family Navigation & Resource Access
Helping individuals and families find, understand, and connect with relevant services and community resources.
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Juanita Boyce Foundation for Cognitive Disabilities
Honoring strength.
Expanding access.
“The Juanita Boyce Foundation for Cognitive Disabilities honors Juanita Boyce’s legacy and works toward greater access, dignity, and opportunity for individuals and families.”
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A legacy that opens doors
Every person deserves to be seen, valued, and supported.
Inspired by the life of Juanita Boyce, the Foundation helps individuals and families find clearer pathways to support, connection, and opportunity.
Juanita was a mother, a source of strength, and a steady presence for the people she loved. Her son, James Boyce, founded this Foundation in her honor — because the help a family needs should be easier to find, and no one should have to navigate it alone.
Who we serve
Built for the people doing the work of everyday life.
The Foundation’s work begins in metropolitan Atlanta and Georgia, with online education and resource sharing reaching beyond the local area. The audiences below describe who this work is built for.
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Individuals with cognitive disabilities
People age five and older who want information, connection, and a clearer path to the support that fits their own goals — at their own pace, with their own voice leading.
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Families & caregivers
Parents, siblings, grandparents, and caregivers who are looking for reliable information, practical guidance, and the relief of talking with someone who understands the landscape.
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Community & partners
Neighbors, congregations, employers, and local organizations working toward a Georgia where people with cognitive disabilities can participate and belong.
The Foundation’s focus is education, navigation, advocacy, and targeted assistance. We do not provide clinical care, residential treatment, or case management, and we do not diagnose conditions.
Our focus
Four areas of focus, built around families.
Each area below is described plainly, so families and partners know what the Foundation does and where to begin a conversation.
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The Juanita Hope Fund
Targeted, needs-based assistance that removes practical barriers to support.
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Learning, Empowerment & Peer Support
Accessible education, caregiver learning, self-advocacy, and opportunities for meaningful connection.
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Awareness, Advocacy & Inclusion
Building understanding and encouraging communities where people with cognitive disabilities can participate and belong.
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Why access matters
The barrier is rarely willingness. It is the maze.
Ask a family what stood in the way, and the answer is rarely a lack of love or effort. It is health, education, benefits, employment, and transportation systems that were never designed to work as one — each with its own rules, its own forms, and its own website that may already be out of date.
Eligibility rules can be difficult to read. Waiting lists move without notice. Referrals lead to voicemail. Each phone call costs time a working parent may not have, and each unanswered question makes the next step feel heavier.
Practical costs add up quietly — transportation to an appointment, a fee to complete an assessment, a few hours of respite that would let a caregiver keep going. Small amounts can decide whether a person participates or stays home.
Connection matters just as much. Knowing another family has walked the same road changes how a person faces the next form, the next meeting, the next year. That is the work this Foundation exists to support.
Our approach
Start small. Measure honestly. Grow only what works.
The Foundation is a Georgia nonprofit initiative with a defined starting place and one rule for growth: nothing expands beyond what evidence and community partnership can support.
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A defined starting place
Our work begins in metropolitan Atlanta, then communities across Georgia. Work beyond that area grows only when a local partner and clear evidence point the way.
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Measure what we deliver
Every area of focus carries written guidelines and a stated way to judge whether it helped. What does not work is changed or reported, not hidden.
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Plain language, checked with families
Every material is written to be understood on a first read, and reviewed by the people it is meant to serve before it is published.
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Private by default, accountable in public
We collect only the information a request requires and keep it to that purpose. Each year, a public summary reports what was delivered, what it cost, and what did not work.
Help build what comes next
There is a place for you in this work.
For Individuals & Families
Explore resources and connect with the Foundation. Tell us what you are looking for and we will share what we know.
Explore resourcesFor Volunteers & Advocates
Express interest in contributing time, lived experience, or professional expertise as programs take shape.
Offer your timeFor Partners & Supporters
Explore collaboration, sponsorship conversations, and ways to support the mission.
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Help create a community where dignity leads and opportunity grows.
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