MOVE International
1300 17th Street
CITY CENTRE
Bakersfield, CA 93301-4533 USA
800-397-MOVE(6683)
move-international@kern.org
MOVE International is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
MISSION STATEMENT: MOVE International seeks to improve the overall quality of life for people with disabilities and for the people who care for them, regardless of age or cause of disability. MOVE International promotes fuller participation in home, school, work and community life to encourage the dignity and hope such participation brings to each individual.
The mission statement is founded in the belief that the ability to move is the first foundation stone in building personal dignity.
The MOVE Program originated in the 1980s in the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Bakersfield, California. The MOVE Program is now used in many school districts and other facilities/organizations throughout the United States and many other nations.
Hamilton-Boone-Madison Special Services
Name of Site: Hamilton-Boone-Madison Special Services
Contact Person(s): Debra Lorenz
Address: 400 S. Guilford Road, Carmel, IN 46032
Phone: 317/571-4027
Email: Office relocation-New email address forthcoming
FAX: 317/571-4077
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:
- Hamilton-Boone-Madison Special Services Cooperative serves the school districts of Carmel-Clay, Noblesville, Westfield, Hamilton Southeastern, Marion Adams, Hamilton Heights, and Frankton-Lapel. The special services cooperative provides services for children ages three through twenty-one who have moderate to severe cognitive, physical and emotional disabilities.
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 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 is to make every "MOVE" meaningful, beneficial and independence enhancing!
Directions to the site:
- Contact Deb Lorenz at Hamilton-Boone-Madison Special Services Cooperative for locations within the cooperative using the MOVE Program and Currilculum.
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