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B. What WiD Be Developed: Exhibit A - Attachment 1 Program Description Page 6 of 17 Agreement # C280501 0 Although Redwood City is proud of their Accessible Recreation Activities Program, it is time to take things a step further. Our goal is to make all of our recreation programs fully inclusive to people with disabilities. We want to aggressively market to those with disabilities to let them know that we support their personal endeavors and welcome them in our community. In short, we wish to establish a Community Inclusion Initiatives. We will do tbis by first hosting a Community Inclusion Partnership Consortium that will open an imperative line of communication between various agencies along the peninsula. This consortium will take part in an intensive training program that will assist various agencies, including Redwood City. on the critical steps to executing inclusion. Redwood City will then hire a Program Coordinator whose main purpose will be to recruit and train volunteer mentors who will escort participants with disabilities to and from recreation programs. provide any assistance participants may need in the classes of their choice, and coordinate with the Partnership Consortium by executing monthly phone conference meetings, bi-monthly in-person meetings and overseeing the publication of a specialized Recreation Guide with the sole purpose of marketing all various programs along the peninsula to people with disabilities. Our goal is to give people with disabilities a personal choice in the type of leisure recreation they wish to embark on, train community leaders in the field of recreation on how to achieve this goal, ¡ provide participants with disabilities the supervision, transportation and/or financial assistance they may need to join such programs and ultimately create a more diverse, inclusive and social experience for everyone in our community. We believe our program will act as a new and innovative model for other recreation departments in the years to come in the process of marketing, recruiting and facilitating full inclusion in a recreation setting. C. Agency is Currendy Providing This Service: Redwood City is committed to the concept of inclusion and has already started providing inclusion services within their Community Services Department. Redwood City has sent their Accessible Recreation Activities Program Coordinator to the National Institute on Recreation Inclusion (NIRI) Conference. in order to gain a national perspective on inclusion practices and develop ideas to be utilized for our City. From this conference, a systematic manual of information was created to provide a resource to the concept of inclusion. In addition, we have created Community Services Programs that brings seniors and people with disabilities together for special events, such as dances~ and trips to various theatre shows and sporting events.