The University of Minnesota's Institute on Community Integration is offering middle and senior high schools in your community the opportunity to take part in a program designed to enhance social and recreational opportunities of young adults with disabilities. The program teaches interested students with and without disabilities to effectively work together to ensure that youth with disabilities are included in recreational and social activities of their choice within the communities in which they live.

Participating students take part in meetings coordinated by local school staff that provide them with a chance to:

• Get to know one another
• Acquire a basic knowledge about disabilities
• Learn a variety of strategies that can used to overcome barriers to inclusion

These skills are put to use through community-based recreation and leisure experiences planned and implemented by students.

Use the links at the top of this page for more information. Thank you for visiting the Yes I Can Web site!

The Yes I Can! Social Inclusion Program is located at the Institute on Community Integration, a University Affiliated Program on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Minnesota in the College of Education and Human Development.

Development and implementation of the Yes I Can program was supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration (Grant #H128-J980121) and Office of Special Education Programs (Grant #H234R00052); the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation; and the Otto Bremer Foundation.

Acknowledgements

For more information, contact Brian Abery, Project Director, 612-625-5592, abery001@umn.edu.

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