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NEWS BRIEFS - Fall 2008 (Cont...)
Local Daycare a Champion for Children
Local company, Together We Grow, has been advocating children’s causes through its Pediatric Day Health Care centers for over twenty years. With two San Diego locations, one being in Oceanside, Together We Grow offers inclusive child development and education programs for medically fragile and typical children.
While the weekdays are predominantly reserved for infant to preschool-aged children, the weekends see medically fragile children ranging from infant to 21 years. Together We Grow is the only place in San Diego that will take children with severe medical conditions for overnight care. Through this program, children can experience camp, sleepovers and even proms, which many would not experience otherwise. Additionally, it gives parents who have sometimes not had a break for years a much-needed rest.
Together We Grow’s innovative group-model and inclusive environment, which mixes typical and medically fragile children together in a setting dependent on age rather than developmental stage, promotes an understanding and compassion in all those involved. While medically fragile children get the opportunity to be around their peers and feel what it is like to be treated like everyone else, the typical children have the opportunity to experience diversity and learn acceptance.
For more information please call (858) 751-0209, email at barbara@togetherwegrow.net or visit the Web site at www.togetherwegrow.net.
Open your home, become a Mentor
California MENTOR is a Family Home Agency providing a range of support for adults with developmental disabilities. Helping hundreds of people grow and thrive in the communities they call home through quality based services including our innovative Host-Home program.
In California MENTOR’s host-home program adults with developmental disabilities live in private family homes with specially trained caregivers who we call Mentors. Because this model is geared towards the needs of one person, host-home living is highly flexible and focused on personal choice for the Mentor and the individual receiving services. In partnership with the people we serve and our Mentors, we strive to create that "perfect match," ensuring successful placements that lead to long-term, meaningful relationships – the basis of our program success.
With the dedicated support of our program staff, Mentors help those we serve acquire skills, access services and participate in community life according to their own needs and preferences. By opening their home and their heart, our Mentors help to create richer, more meaningful lives for adults with developmental disabilities.
For information call California MENTOR, (760) 754-8456.
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