Building For Change
IDD is the term given to describe a wide range of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Keep reading below to learn more.
Take a Virtual Tour of the Arc PPR Inclusive Campus
Intellectual disabilities occur before age 18. Individuals with intellectual disabilities experience limitations in two main areas:
- Intellectual functioning
- Adaptive behavior
These limitations effect the person’s everyday activities and social and conceptual skills. Many people with intellectual disabilities are mildly affected; this makes the disability hard to notice with visual cues alone. Intellectual disability is diagnosed through standardized tests of intelligence and adaptive behavior.
Many children receive a diagnosis or learning disability, developmental delay, behavior disorder, or autism instead of the intellectual disability. This makes it challenging to determine how many individuals have intellectual disabilities.
With support from family, friends and agencies including The Arc, over time many adults with intellectual disabilities can live independent, dynamic lives in their community.
Building for Change…
An inclusive life-skills resource center to promote and protect the human
rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Intelligence refers to general mental capability. Intelligence involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly and critically, comprehend complex ideas, learn rapidly, and learn from previous experiences. Intelligence is represented by Intelligent Quotient (IQ) score. This score is obtained from standardized tests given by trained professionals. Intellectual disability is believed to be present if an individual has an IQ score of 70 or below.
Support for Building for Change
The Arc Pikes Peak Region is pleased to be a recipient of a Daniels Fund Grant. The Daniels Fund, established by cable television pioneer Bill Daniels, is a private charitable foundation dedicated to making life better for the people of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming through its grants program, scholarship program, and ethics initiative.
The Arc Pikes Peak Region is also proud to be a recipient of a grant from the El Pomar Foundation. Visit www.elpomar.org to learn more about the El Pomar Foundation.
The Arc Pikes Peak Region is also proud to be a recipient of a grant from the El Pomar Foundation. Visit www.elpomar.org to learn more about the El Pomar Foundation.
What is Building for Change?
Building for Change is The Arc Pikes Peak Region’s project to renovate its current offices to create a 100%-accessible life-skills resource center to promote and protect the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Why Building for Change?
From Guardianship services and advocacy, to job and life skills, Building for Change will bring people of all abilities together in community, equipping them to achieve their vision for their lives.
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Building for Change in the Colorado Springs Community
In all 50 states, the poverty rate is higher among families with members with a disability than among families without. And with a mere 40% of students with IDD graduating with a high school diploma, the workforce and community suffers a lack of integration for individuals with IDD.
IDD is the term given to describe a wide range of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Keep reading below to learn more.
We can do better. And we invite you to be a part of critical change by joining in the momentum of our Building for Change Campaign.
This ambitious campaign will raise funds to construct a new center for the Colorado Springs community, which currently lacks an inclusive environment where people of all abilities can come together to learn, socialize and interact.
The “before” view of The Arc Pikes Peak Region’s offices at 10 and 12 N. Meade Ave.
Building for Change – An Inclusive Campus, is a capital campaign to reconstruct The Arc Pikes Peak Region’s (The Arc PPR) current facilities at 10 and 12 North Meade. Currently serving more than 2,000 individuals, the campus renovations will include classrooms, a library, a computer room, a working kitchen with home appliances and updated, expanded office space for The Arc. The inclusive campus will be an open, accessible community hub, available for use by partner organizations and businesses.
Individuals with IDD need more opportunities to learn necessary skills for living independently and thriving in their communities. The Arc PPR’s Inclusive Campus will have the space for community organizations to provide classes to help individuals improve their lives. We envision a class schedule to include demonstrations and hands-on training for safe, healthy cooking and nutrition, personal budgeting, resume writing, job coaching, proactive personal health and other life skill workshops.
Intellectual disabilities occur before age 18. Individuals with intellectual disabilities experience limitations in two main areas:
- Intellectual functioning
- Adaptive behavior
These limitations effect the person’s everyday activities and social and conceptual skills. Many people with intellectual disabilities are mildly affected; this makes the disability hard to notice with visual cues alone. Intellectual disability is diagnosed through standardized tests of intelligence and adaptive behavior.
Many children receive a diagnosis or learning disability, developmental delay, behavior disorder, or autism instead of the intellectual disability. This makes it challenging to determine how many individuals have intellectual disabilities.
With support from family, friends and agencies including The Arc, over time many adults with intellectual disabilities can live independent, dynamic lives in their community.
The Inclusive Campus will benefit the Colorado Springs Community by:
IDD is the term given to describe a wide range of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Keep reading below to learn more.
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