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May 1, 2018Crossroads Center for Children Receives Kvistad Foundation’s Woodstock Chimes Fund
Crossroads Center for Children is proud and honored to announce a grant received last week from the Kvistad Foundation’s Woodstock Chimes Fund. This grant will support social skills programming for the students at Crossroads.
Crossroads Center for Children is located in Schenectady, New York and is a not-for-profit Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) school and clinic where young children with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities learn and grow alongside their more typically developing peers. The mission of Crossroads is to prepare individuals with and without developmental disabilities for life success within their families and communities.
Each year since opening in 1998 to serve 5 young children diagnosed with Autism whose school districts did not have appropriate programs for, Crossroads Center for Children has educated an increased number of children with and without disabilities. The scope of the program has also expanded in order to meet the growing needs of the community. Crossroads’ mission is carried out minute by minute all year through, to help each and every student learn the critical skills they need to be successful in their classroom, family and community.
Crossroads does receive funding in the form of tuition and enrollment payments. This income alone, however, makes just a small dent in the total costs of running a highly achieving, life-changing program that Crossroads has become known and respected for. In order to ensure that each student learns and progresses with the essential skills for communication, behavior, social interaction, self-care, academic, motor and life, an exacting, highly effective and disciplined program based on the science of ABA is carried out across the program. To achieve this high level of programming, Crossroads relies greatly on financial support from our community in the way of fundraising, donations, and grants. Crossroads is deeply grateful to the Kivstad Foundation for their interest in the school.
The Kvistad Foundation’s gift will help Crossroads to purchase supplies and materials for recreation and social skills. Developing social skills is a critical area targeted by teachers and therapists to help students make progress within their families and communities, and an area of the program in need of community support.
The mission of the fund and other information is found at https://www.chimes.com/t-charitableworks.aspx. “The Woodstock Chimes Fund was established in 1986 by Diane & Garry Kvistad, owners of Woodstock Percussion, Inc., to support the community in the Arts, and in Food and Shelter Programs. We believe that a community can be judged by how it values the Arts and the way in which its members respond to those in need. We believe that we have a responsibility as a corporate citizen to give back to the community which has helped make our success possible.” Crossroads Center for Children is grateful for this mission and work and wishes to thank the Kvistads for this caring and generosity.
For more information about this exciting grant and the important programs at Crossroads Center for Children, please visit http://www.crossroadcenter.org or contact Kelly Young, Executive Director, at 518-280-0083.
