{"id":66847,"date":"2016-04-02T06:37:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T10:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66847"},"modified":"2016-03-30T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T01:43:52","slug":"cazenovia-college-honored-for-collaboration-with-the-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66847","title":{"rendered":"Cazenovia College honored for collaboration with The Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aylaiza Moreno (Cazenovia College Student) and Kevin Williams Jr. (Participant in Cazenovia Program) with Ashley Isabella (Cazenovia College Student) in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Longtime partnership provides on-campus inclusive opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cazenovia College was honored by M&T Bank and the Business Journal News Network with the Collaboration Award, which celebrates its longtime partnership with The Arc of Madison Cortland, at the eighth annual Nonprofit Awards. This accolade recognizes how these nonprofits have created a successful collaboration that has resulted in greater outcomes and a higher level of sustainability.<\/p>\n

Cazenovia College has been affiliated with The Arc of Madison Cortland for over 10 years through an initiative started by Mary Handley, Ph.D., CRC, a faculty member and program director of the human services program at the college. She has a strong background in inclusion, particularly in developing new and innovative ways to give people opportunities in the community. Each semester, she coordinates an on-campus experience for adults with developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe program has had a significant impact by truly changing the culture of the campus,\u201d says Mary Handley. \u00a0She adds, \u201cStudents have come to expect participants with disabilities as part of a typical day\u00a0on our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Dr. Handley’s leadership, students from Cazenovia College work with adults from the surrounding community with developmental disabilities. They provide therapeutic recreation such as bowling, and arts and crafts. More than just a class, students give people with disabilities the opportunity to experience academic life at a college. They walk across campus together, attend class together, sit together at the dining hall, and develop friendships. The college students, people with disabilities, and staff from both The Arc and the college\u00a0gain a new perspective\u00a0about\u00a0people and their\u00a0strengths and abilities.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Mary Handley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt is\u00a0a true collaboration\u00a0where\u00a0everyone’s goals\u00a0and expectations are\u00a0met\u00a0and where\u00a0many\u00a0positive outcomes\u00a0beyond\u00a0the initial\u00a0ones\u00a0are\u00a0achieved,\u201d says Jack Campbell, executive director of The Arc of Madison Cortland.\u00a0He adds, \u201cMary Handley\u2019s efforts also help to ensure that college students are introduced to working with people with disabilities, an essential activity for bringing more young people into human services career paths.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Mary Handley<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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Longtime partnership provides on-campus inclusive opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities. Cazenovia College was honored by M&T Bank and the Business Journal News Network with the Collaboration Award, which celebrates its longtime partnership with The Arc of Madison Cortland, at the eighth annual Nonprofit Awards. This accolade recognizes how these nonprofits have created<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hob","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caz-College-The-Arc-4.jpg?fit=3072%2C4608&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}