title: Community.
abstract: Occupational therapy program development in times of scarce funding can be difficult, if not impossible, despite demonstrated need. This paper describes the strategies in one facility when staff looked to their community and to specific external sources of support in order to achieve program objectives. The facility and its programs will be described, as they expanded and developed, including examples of specific ways in which various persons and businesses in the surrounding neighborhoods were tapped to provide needed resources for training programs for special needs children, adolescents and young adults. In so doing, this staff also provided realistic avenues for successful adaptation of their students after they left the training school.
authors: Director of Development, Little People's Learning Prep School, West Newton, MA, 02165; and Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Occupational Therapy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA; and Tufts University, Medford, MA.
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authors: Jacobs