Janniece Sleigh
Janniece Sleigh is currently the Executive Director of The Arc of Harris County. Prior to moving to Houston, she was the Executive Director of Empowerment Through Employment, Inc. located in Clarksburg, West Virginia. She has made it her personal and professional mission to support veterans and people with disabilities to enhance their life and career aspirations. After spending twenty-seven years working in the human service field managing non-profit startup and multimillion-dollar organizations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, she knows what truly drives the success to serve the community – passion, advocacy, and growth.
She especially enjoys restructuring organizations and developing new services, providing life-enhancing integrated activities and experiences focused on holistic wellness, consulting, and training employers on the benefits of hiring individuals with disabilities and creating successful entrepreneurial opportunities for people with IDD. Janniece plans on leading The Arc of Harris County towards new services-follow-through resource supports, social and recreational supports specific to youth and potentially opening a business that hires people with IDD and/or autism.
Janniece holds a BA in psychology from the California University of Pennsylvania. Currently serves as the interim Chair of the Board of Directors for The Harris Center Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Needs Council (IDDNC), is a member of the Employment Roundtable, The Harris Center IDD-PAC and serves on the HCC VAST Academy Advisory Council. Janniece was the founding Secretary of the West Virginia Association for Disability Employment (WVADE), former board member of The West Virginia Association of Rehabilitative Facilities (WVARF), former ETEWV Strategic Planning Committee Chair, former member of the Nutterfort Lions Club, former member of the Clarksburg Chamber of Commerce, former member of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Committee, former Chair of the Human Rights Committee, former TSI Cultural Diversity Committee advisor.