Hello!!! Welcome to our first Sparc Blog. We meet three times a week at Southgate Community Center at 12125 Pinecret Road In Reston Virginia . Our mission is to provide life-long oppotunities for disabled young adults to function independently in the coumminty.The club meets Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, please send a bagged lunch with you wjen you visit us .
The second goal of Sparc is to incerase social interaction with peers. This goal is reinforced throughout the SPARC day This goal is also accomplished in the form of a morning meeting in which club members greet each other and have a three -to-five minute self-directed conversation about what each member did the night before.
The overall tone of SPARC is designed as a typicial workday. The agenda for a particular day is put on a meassage the the club excutive director leaves. The activities vary from one day to the next creating a refrshing change from sitting at home and being bored .
The activities SPARC offers are based on a challenge-by -choice model. This allows club members the flexibillity to choose which activities they wish to participate in that day. All the activities at SPARC are tailored according to the indivisual's needs
SPARC is free and the only fee is a monthly activity free that the participants pay in order to cover outside activies which occur at various times throught the month. These include Music and Art threapy. In art, a hands -on approach is used to prevent fustration. The most commom method used during art sessions is hand-over -hand and for those who have use of the hands brushes and paints are used. We even used blow-pens !
If you have a young-adult daughter or son who you think may benifit fron SPARC, please feel free to visit and browse the club's Internet website at www.Sparcontheweb.org . If you wish to contact the SPARC directors please feel free to contact them at Donna.Goldbranson@Sparcontheweb.org or Monica.Benteler@sparcontheweb.org they welcome your inquires anytime .
Sparc Club Member
Ryan
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You all DO sound like the best club in Northern Virginia!!
hey! this sounds so cool! glad i finally figured out how to leave a comment!
I have lots of friends at SPARC. We do so many fun things. We cook sometimes and we come in the computer lab.
THE SPARC BLOG IS COOL. maybe we can get some girls to write us.
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