Name of Site: Putnam/Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services

Contact Person: Judy Spaulding, Principal/Supervisor

Address: Pines Bridge School, 200 BOCES Drive, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-4899

Phone: (914)248-2250

FAX: (914) 248-3801

E-Mail: jspaulding@pnwboces.org

Web Site: http://www.pnwboces.org

Designation Date as MOVE Model Site: May 31, 2002

MOVE International Trainers:

          Melanie Burch, Special Education Teacher
          Ann Gullen, Physical Therapist
          Laurie Lake Levene, Adaptive Physical Education Specialist 
          Barbara Waldron, Physical Therapist

Description of Site:

Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES is a New York State Public School Disrict serving students with disabilities through arrangements with their local school districts.

Number of students/clients using the MOVE Program: 60

Age range of students/clients: 5 through 21 years old

Number of classrooms using the MOVE Program: 13

Student/client/staff ratio: 12:1:4 self-contained classrooms

Directions to Pines Bridge School, 200 BOCES Drive Yorktown Heights, NY:

From Taconic Parkway Southbound: Take Underhill Ave. exit. Make a left off the exit. Continue through the first light until you are a "T", the firehouse will be in front of you. Turn left. At the next light make a right onto Veterans Road. Follow to STOP and bear right. The entrance to BOCES (hill) is on your immediate left. From Taconic Parkway Northbound: Take Underhill Ave. exit. Make a right off the exit. Continue through the first light until you are a "T", the firehouse will be in front of you. Turn left. At the next light make a right onto Veterans Road. Follow to STOP and bear right. The entrance to BOCES (hill) is on your immediate left. From Route 684: Take Katonah exit #6. Follow Route 35 west. Between 5 adn 6 miles, look for signs for the intersection of Route 202 and Route 118 and the town of Amawalk. Proceed past this intersection and at the next light make a left on to Pinesbridge Road. BOCES entrance is up the road on your right. From the Bear Mt. Bridge: Bear right onto Route 6 off the bridge. At the traffic circle, bear right and over small bridge, at light turn left onto Bear Mt. Pkwy (see sign "To Taconic Parkway). Follow Pkwy. to end. At light turn left onto Route 202. Follow 202 into Yorktown Heights. *See directions above from Taconic southbound From the Beacon/Newburgh Bridge: Continue on Route 84 east to exit 16S for Taconic State Parkway south (New York City). *See directions above for Taconic southbound. From Long Island: Throgs Neck Bridge to Route 95 (New England Thruway) to exit 21N. After you get on the exit road KEEP BEARING LEFT until it puts you on Route 287. (Cross Westchester Expressway). Exit at the BREWSTER sign and go north on 684 to the Katonah exit. Follow above directions from Route 684.