College LIFE program launched with UCP
Upstate Cerebral Palsy and SUNY Polytechnic Institute officially launched the College LIFE collaborative program on the SUNY Poly Utica campus on November 3, providing people with developmental disabilities a learning experience on a college campus to develop life, work and self-advocacy skills to achieve the next level of independence and lead fully inclusive lives.
“The Community and Behavioral Health (CBH) program is very pleased to partner with UCP in the College LIFE program,” said Dr. Veronica Tichenor, Associate Professor of Sociology and Program Coordinator of Community and Behavioral Health. “By hosting UCP students, we add to the richness and diversity of our campus community, and our students have the opportunity to work with, mentor, and learn from young adults who are striving to meet their own life goals. A partnership like this is very much in keeping with the ethos of the SUNY Poly CBH program, which emphasizes a biopsychosocial model of health and well-being that is attuned to the needs of individuals as whole persons, and provides our students with a wide range of opportunities to engage in the larger community.”
College LIFE is a unique program, unlike any other in this area, in that it allows students from Upstate Cerebral Palsy to learn skills at a 4-year university based on their unique abilities and interests. An individual may progress to do volunteer work or to participate in a community day program, or he or she may move into paid employment. This program allows individuals to be a part of the SUNY Poly campus community and to experience life on a college campus while working on their goals set forth by the program and by students themselves.
“This is also an extremely unique program in that we are partnering with a bachelor’s level university, which will provide a tremendous training ground and social and learning experience for our students, many of whom have the desire to learn and spend time on a college campus,” said Upstate Cerebral Palsy Director II of Vocational Services Dawn Gentile. “We can now make that desire a reality with this new partnership.”
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