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June 26, 2018SEFCU Sponsors Social Skills Program At Crossroads
Crossroads Center for Children is honored to share the news of receiving a grant from SEFCU! SEFCU selected the Social Skills Development programming to sponsor for the school’s Summer Program. This grant will allow the school to purchase materials and supplies for the students to improve social skills. Recreation, play, and social skills instruction are components of focus at Crossroads and the school is extremely pleased to be recognized in this way. The plan for expenditures will be focused on materials for the students, such as art supplies, musical instruments, games, and other materials needed to carry out sessions and groups, working on social and play skills.
SEFCU’s motto is, “Changing lives every day.” They have definitely changed lives here.
We are deeply appreciative of this support. SEFCU has supported Crossroads several times in the past. They’ve provided volunteers for a Wagon Train BBQ event last June, a Golf Tournament in September 2017, and a March 2018 Gala. Most recently, SEFCU volunteers helped Crossroads with getting the garden ready for students to plant in.
Crossroads Center for Children, located in Schenectady, New York, is a not-for-profit school where young children with autism spectrum disorders 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 family and community. Crossroads was founded in Glenville in 1998 to serve five students who were diagnosed with autism whose school districts didn’t have appropriate placements for. Since then, the school has changed location and grown profoundly in scope and size in order to meet the growing and changing needs of the community.
Crossroads Center for Children utilizes interventions from the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA), a branch of psychology and education with a foundation based on scientific analysis of human behavior and learning.
As a non-profit organization, an imperative need exists for funding in addition to limited monies received through school districts. The extensive costs of running a successful and effective educational program and ensuring that each student learns skills needed for success in life are reliant on community support in the way of fundraising, donations, and grants. Grants such as this one, from SEFCU, make the program run, are deeply appreciated, and impact on the lives of students and their families.
For more information about SEFCU please visit https://www.sefcu.com/
