Mission and Purpose

Center On Deafness - Inland Empire is a non-profit community based service agency whose mission is to enable deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deafened adults to live independent, productive lives, with full access to the services and opportunities available to people who hear.

In the summer of 1994, GLAD-IC was established to provide quality services to the Inland empire's Deaf community. At the beginning of the year of 1997, the name was changed from GLAD-IC to the current CODIE. With offices in Riverside and Victorville, CODIE employs eleven field specialists and cadre of volunteers.

Over the years, CODIE, through its legislative and judicial client service provision, has dramatically improved the quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing persons and their families.