Chris Pierce is the Director of Via West, part of Via Services. It’s an organization over half a century old that provides early intervention services in a clinic setting, and offers a camp experience to participants ages five and up, including people in their 70s and 80s, at their Via West campus in the Santa Cruz mountains, just a few minutes drive from the heart of Silicon Valley. The client needs range from autism, to mild physical or cognitive impairments to those with more significant mobility issues and medical concerns. Chris how did you come to be a camp director and why do you think camp is so important? It was an integral part of my personal child hood. My father was a founder of an adult special needs program back at the camp he started outside of Chicago, Illinois. It’s been in my DNA from day one. I was…