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* Get Your Mini iPad Raffle Ticket NOW!!
Proceeds to benefit young adults with disAbilities. Click for details.
* DR. JOAN BRUNO receives the prestigious 2013 NJSHA HONORS of the ASSOCIATION AWARD
* Medicaid Eligibility Update from DDD
* Read About Hulgreen Productions Puppet Characters
* SUMMER ILC PROGRAM - Register Now!
Tuesdays & Wednesdays for 6 weeks at Hawkswood School.
FRA's Lindsey Keune is 3rd place winner and Andrew Ricci is 4th place winner in the Who's Who Karate Tournament.
Click here to read article and see photos.
Announcing a YOU TUBE Channel For Siblings of Children w/Down Syndrome.
Click to watch a new video clip each month!
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SUMMER 2013 PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Colleen’s Summer Place, LEAP
* REGISTER NOW FOR SUMMER 2013 SESSION!
Classes Held at FRA in Shrewsbury
An inclusive program open to students ages 13 through young adult, who can benefit from a learning environment with others having various types of disAbilities, as well as typically developing students included as peer role models and volunteers. The program’s goal is to maintain or increase academic and real live skills through functional activities.
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS & REGISTRATION INFORMATION.
ILC Summer Program
* REGISTER NOW FOR SUMMER 2013 SESSION!
Classes Held at Hawkswood School in Eatontown
How to be involved with others in one’s life and reaching out to broaden a sense of connection often gives people a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Individuals will gain experience in a variety of employment tasks as they visit various locations in the community and also gain a better understanding of their own interests for the type of job they would like to do and at which they can be successful
Student Level Requirements: Individuals must possess and demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills. Reading ability must be at a minimum of a 4th grade reading level and student must be able to independently write paragraphs.
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS & REGISTRATION INFORMATION.
PossAbilities Walk
& A DAY OF SPORTS PLAY with Monmouth University HAWKS
Held
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Click here for Walk, Sponsorship & Fundraising Details.
FRA's 32nd Annual Golf Outing
Monday, June 17, 2013
To be held again this year at the
Magnificent New Club House at
Navesink Country Club
50 Luffburrow Lane
Middletown, NJ
Click here for details and registration information.
Sue Levine, Cheryl Gaudette
& Nancy Phalanukorn
FRA Co-Founders
A unique opportunity
to see the power of
FRA glimpsed at the
Family Circle Gala
February 15, 2013 was a joyful night for over 180 guests and made more special as the Ambassadors greeted them, sold raffle tickets and introduced themselves at each table.
Click to read more about the GALA, see PHOTOS and watch VIDEOS of the Ambassadors' Speeches!
INTRODUCING our First Class of
FRA AMBASSADORS
In October 2011, a design team initiated a pilot project to create new possAbilities for adults with disAbilities who have participated in FRA programs. For this we needed individuals with enthusiasm to be out in the public representing themselves as self-advocates and wanting to help FRA grow by participating at FRA events and at speaking engagements
FRA Ambassadors are adults with disAbilities who have achieved many accomplishments in their lives and who have an affiliation with FRA, some since they were infants. We are proud to introduce our first eleven empowered self-advocates and share our joy as we congratulate and introduce them:
Thomas Castellano, Catherine Ehlinger, Bizzy Ford, Marcus Hannah, Deanna Jimenez, Lindsey Keune, Joe Martinelli, Eileen Merritt, Kerry Potestivo, Michael Sant, and Tara Waters. READ MORE
Become a FAMILY CIRCLE MONTHLY DONOR!
The FRA Family Circle is an automated giving program designed to help you conveniently and consistently contribute to FRA. When you enroll in the FRA Family Circle, your monthly gift is made through a pre-authorized transfer from your bank account or credit card. Your gift is deposited into FRA's bank account on the same day it is transferred from your account--at no cost to you or FRA. At any time, you may increase, decrease, or suspend your gift by calling 732-747-5310, ext. 113.
Look what your gift will do!
--$10/month will purchase books and materials
--$15/month will support a sibling group
--$20/month will support therapy group for children
--$25/month will help provide individual therapy
--$50/month will help develop our TECHConnection so we can make technology more accessible to those of any age with difficulties and impairments (due to accident, illness or aging).
Download a Sustainer Pledge Form here.
TECHConnection's TECHNOLOGY
LENDING LIBRARY
IS NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW ON LINE!!
Our thanks to DRNJ (Disability Rights New Jersey) and
Investors Savings Bank Foundation
for funding our Lending Library!
We are most grateful and excited to be supported by Investors Savings Bank Foundation with a grant of $7,685 to improve and update our Technology Lending Library. Pictured here is Bill Sheeser, FRA Board President, Nancy Phalanukorn, FRA Executive Director, Cathy Murray, Investors Savings Bank, Second Vice President.
FREE Assistive Technology Demonstrations in the Community!
Let the TECHConnection at FRA bring a TECH Expo to YOU in Monmouth County! You can increase your awareness of assistive technology at your convenience.
See many types of Assistive Technology alternatives to help people who struggle with reading, writing, vision concerns or physical limitations or who have developmental or acquired disabilities. Find ways to make using the computer easier!
A TECH EXPO will give people access to technology to broaden their world and offer more independence. Let us show you how to make using the computer easy. FIND solutions for the challenges you face in school, at home, or in the workplace.
CALL NOW to host a TECH EXPO of your own! We will bring all the technology to you with many demonstrations to help you or your clients!
Call Joanne Castellano, Director - TECHConnection @ FRA 732-747-5310 ext. 114, or email TecConn@aol.com
