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Posted: Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 04:36 pm |
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June 22, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ilyssa Berkowitz
Marketing & PR Assistant
623-584-4999
iberkowitz@interfaithcommunitycare.org
INTERFAITH’S HELPING PARTNERS PROGRAM TO JOIN MARY’S PLACE
Sun City, AZ – Interfaith Community Care’s Helping Partners’ Program is moving next door to Mary’s Place. The program will be leaving its current home on El Mirage Road to enjoy a new space currently being constructed at the Bovard Center, where Mary’s Place is located.
This new home for Helping Partners was made possible by a partnership between Interfaith, Rio Salado College, and volunteers from Habitat for Humanity. Participants in Rio Salado’s Incarcerated Re-Entry Program are working to remodel the Bovard Center, home to Mary’s Place, located at 14601 N. Del Web Boulevard, to accommodate the Helping Partners Program. When remodeling is complete, the Bovard site will have a new name, still to be determined. It will also have two large activity rooms, one very large main area furnished with new couches, chairs, and tables, as well as new carpet, paint, and an outside area for games and sitting. The surrounding neighborhood is great for walking and will enhance the Helping Partners’ participants’ daily activities. Outings, special guest performances, and other fun activities will now be shared by Helping Partners’ and Mary’s Place participants.
Helping Partners, which serves developmentally disabled adults, currently has 38 participants enrolled and provides services for an average of 25 a day. The program is moving because its current location is owned by the State Department of Land and will be torn down as part of the 303 expansion.
“The Bovard site is perfect for the permanent home of this very special, and much needed program,” said Interfaith’s Pam Grigsby Jones, Vice President of Programs, “All of the help and support we are getting from the community is amazing!”
Ernest Adkins, of Rio Salado College, has been a huge help in the remodeling project. Adkins works with the college’s Incarcerated Re-Entry Program through the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). Since 1983, Rio Salado has been working with ADC to teach the incarcerated population the skills necessary for successful integration into society upon release. The college also works with the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.
Rio Salado offers educational programs, under contract, at ASPC-Perryville, ASPC-Lewis, and the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, Black Canyon School. Their programs provide work-based education and life skills training opportunities for men, women, and juveniles. By providing this array of services at the prison sites and the juvenile detention facility, they have the opportunity to encourage lifelong learning to the incarcerated populations.
The people involved in these programs have been working on remodeling the Bovard site for the Helping Partners Program.
Interfaith Community Care is a non-denominational, not-for-profit, community-supported human services agency providing care services for seniors and disabled adults since 1981. For more information on services call 623-584-4999 or visit http://www.interfaithcommunitycare.org
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