Name of Site: Tri-County Education Center

Contact Person(s): Debra Lorenz, Tri-County Administrator

Address: 599 South Harbour Drive, Noblesville, IN 46060

Phone: (317) 773-5321 ext. 101

Email: debra_lorenz@mail.nobl.k12.in.us

FAX: (317) 773-0486 

Web Site: under development

Designation Date as MOVE Model Site: May 19, 2005

MOVE International Trainers: 

           Stephanie Heiser, Physical Therapist
           Debra Lorenz, Administrator
           Suzanne Ruth, Physical Therapist
           Susan Ryan-McCoskey, Special Education Teacher

Description of Site:

The Tri-County Education Center is a public separate day school facility in Noblesville, Indiana. The Tri-County Education Center is part of the Hamilton-Boone-Madison Special Services Cooperative and serves the school districts of Carmel-Clay, Noblesville, Westfield, Hamilton Southeastern, Marion Adams, Hamilton Heights, and Frankton-Lapel. The Tri-County Education Center serves children ages three through twenty-one who have moderate to severe cognitive, physical and emotional disabilities. All teachers, instructional assistants, and therapists at TCEC have been trained to implement the MOVE Curriculum and MOVE Program.

Number of students/clients using the MOVE Program: 20

Age range of students/clients: 3-21

Number of classrooms using the MOVE Program: 5

Students/staff ratio: 2.5:1

Other Notes of Interest:

Students at Tri-County Education Center utilize the MOVE Curriculum to make their way throughout their school setting. They MOVE to the gymnasium, the sensory room, home-living area, the therapeutic pool, and to the cafeteria. Programs which develop personal care skills, hand washing, toileting, and dressing are integrated into the MOVE Curriculum. The primary objective of the MOVE Curriculum at T.C.E.C. is to make every "MOVE" meaningful, beneficial and independence enhancing!

Directions to the site:

From Highway 31 at Westfield: Take Highway 32 East to Highway 38 West. Go approximately two miles and turn right on South Harbour Drive at the light. Turn left at your first stop sign and the second building on your right is Tri-County Education Center. From Highway 37: Go west on Highway 32 to the light at Riverview Hospital and turn right, (Highway 38 West). Stay on 38 West approximately two miles to the light at South Harbour Drive and turn right. Proceed to the first stop sign and turn left. Tri-County Education Center is the second school building on your right.