By Whitney Woodward Special to the Tribune
Residents with dementia at Chicago's Norwood Crossing senior community will have a new therapeutic garden to tend next year, thanks to supporters who read about the program online and then made financial contributions. In about two months, the non-profit raised more than $4,600 -- nearly half the cost of the garden -- through a Web site that helps connect potential contributors with non-profit organizations."These people would read our story and were touched by what we do," said Laura Curley, the executive director of the Norwood Life Care Foundation, which supports projects at the residential community. "They wanted to see it happen." Read more>
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
County schools to apply for stimulus funds
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Rutherford County Schools vote to apply for stimulus funds for special education students at its Tuesday night meeting.In April, RCS received more than $4.2 million for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), approximately half of the available funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The stimulus money represents significant funding for programs that help ensure children with disabilities, including children age 3-5, are provided services that meet their needs.Possible uses of these funds could include professional training for special education teachers, data collection to improve teaching and learning, and improving overall student achievement.The board will also vote on one use of the funding: The Oakland High School Special Education Department Green Thumb Project.Oakland High School Principal Bill Spurlock wants to build a greenhouse to create a learning environment for special needs students. This project will allow students with severe physical and cognitive disabilities hands-on experiences in the areas of planting, care and marketing of plants. The students will learn pre-vocational and vocational skills and will learn that there are ways to overcome their personal challenges and be an effective part of the world around them. The Comprehensive Development Class (CDC) seeks to be involved in a collaborative project with the Horticulture Department at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and Dr. Nate Phillips in establishing a Horticulture Therapy Program. The greenhouse will cost an estimated $44,000. Additional supplies, materials, and construction costs for the project are estimated at approximately $36,000, which includes utilities.
Rutherford County Schools vote to apply for stimulus funds for special education students at its Tuesday night meeting.In April, RCS received more than $4.2 million for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), approximately half of the available funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The stimulus money represents significant funding for programs that help ensure children with disabilities, including children age 3-5, are provided services that meet their needs.Possible uses of these funds could include professional training for special education teachers, data collection to improve teaching and learning, and improving overall student achievement.The board will also vote on one use of the funding: The Oakland High School Special Education Department Green Thumb Project.Oakland High School Principal Bill Spurlock wants to build a greenhouse to create a learning environment for special needs students. This project will allow students with severe physical and cognitive disabilities hands-on experiences in the areas of planting, care and marketing of plants. The students will learn pre-vocational and vocational skills and will learn that there are ways to overcome their personal challenges and be an effective part of the world around them. The Comprehensive Development Class (CDC) seeks to be involved in a collaborative project with the Horticulture Department at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and Dr. Nate Phillips in establishing a Horticulture Therapy Program. The greenhouse will cost an estimated $44,000. Additional supplies, materials, and construction costs for the project are estimated at approximately $36,000, which includes utilities.
Friday, June 26, 2009
The Real Deal: Our labors bore fruit, in many ways
By Jennifer O'Hara • June 24, 2009
... Apparently, for some time now, therapists have been keenly aware of the mental health benefits of growing food, caring for the plants and then reaping the rewards. The growing field is called "horticulture therapy" or simply "HT." According to the American Horticulture Association's Web site, " ... HT is recognized as a practical and viable treatment with wide-ranging benefits for people in therapeutic, vocational and wellness programs." The therapy apparently was successfully used to help rehabilitate WWII veterans in the 1940s and '50s.
Other moving examples are provided in a report by Konrad R. Neuberger (supervisor of the Horticulture Work Therapy Program at Langenfeld Hospital in West Germany) published on the German Web site: Gartenbau Und Therapie. Neuberger advocates using the garden as a metaphor to help patients help themselves. After seeing a strawberry field turn into a village before my eyes, I can certainly imagine the greater good to be achieved by cultivating a garden.
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... Apparently, for some time now, therapists have been keenly aware of the mental health benefits of growing food, caring for the plants and then reaping the rewards. The growing field is called "horticulture therapy" or simply "HT." According to the American Horticulture Association's Web site, " ... HT is recognized as a practical and viable treatment with wide-ranging benefits for people in therapeutic, vocational and wellness programs." The therapy apparently was successfully used to help rehabilitate WWII veterans in the 1940s and '50s.
Other moving examples are provided in a report by Konrad R. Neuberger (supervisor of the Horticulture Work Therapy Program at Langenfeld Hospital in West Germany) published on the German Web site: Gartenbau Und Therapie. Neuberger advocates using the garden as a metaphor to help patients help themselves. After seeing a strawberry field turn into a village before my eyes, I can certainly imagine the greater good to be achieved by cultivating a garden.
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