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CALENDAR ALERT CASA COLINA OFFERS FREE COMMUNITY SEMINAR ON LOW VISION REHABILITAION, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22In its continued efforts to educate the community about visual impairments and the benefits of low vision rehabilitation, Casa Colina is pleased to host a free community seminar on Wednesday, February 22. Guest speakers include Kierstyn Napier-Dovorany, OD, FAAO, Assistant Professor, College of Optometry at Western University of Health Sciences, who also specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with low vision at Casa Colina; and Debra Ouellette, MS, OTR/L, a Casa Colina occupational therapist with special training in low vision rehabilitation. Topics of discussion include what is visual impairment and how it is caused; what is low vision rehabilitation and you or a loved one may benefit; ways to improve function in the home and community with low vision; how to utilize other senses to assist with function and improve quality of live; assistive devises to help compensate for low vision; and a question and answer session. Refreshments will be served and seating is limited. Wednesday, February 22 Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation
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Casa Colina's Tribute to Courage Gala 2012
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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRAINING CENTER & GLENDORA FLORIST Something new for the New Year! Glendora Florist is partnering with the Horticulture Program from San Gabriel Valley Training Center’s Supported Employment Program
SGVTC is an “adult services program” that provides these services to individuals that are clients of Regional Center and Department of Rehabilitation. A small percentage of referrals are private clients. The La Puente corporate location is a facility covering seven acres that houses: CRTC – Community Rehabilitation Center, in Covina, is a division of SGVTC. This training center location offers outsourcing services. We have a satellite office located in Upland, for our supported Employment Program that provides services to clients in the Inland Empire. Our Supported Employment Program has three job developers. We all present the opportunity to local businesses to create partnerships with SGVTC. The San Gabriel Valley Training Center is a private, not for profit organization whose mission is to provide high quality rehabilitation, training, job placement and work support services to adults with a wide range of disabilities to maximize their highest potential for successful transition in becoming independent members of our local community and find integrated community employment. Clients in the Horticulture Program learn to grow and propagate a wide variety of cactus and succulents. Others clients creatively pot the plants into a collection of re purposed containers. Glendora Florist has reached out and provided an opportunity for this program to share their unique, sophisticated and unusual “succulent gardens”.
Dalel Snider
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The Glendora facility boasts over 17,000 square feet with 10 multi-use tunnels that includes 8 pitching machines - 4 for baseball and 4
for softball, dozens of tees, various L-screens and catch nets, and a new T-2 Motion video analysis station to record athletes during his
or her lesson. Its staff includes several individuals from the Glendora area that have played at the highest levels and are now sharing
their knowledge and experience - along with the proven Frozen Ropes training model - with the next generation of athletes. |
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