Bruce Cameron and Rotarian Rhoda Wilson work together. Bruce is the facilitator for Community Living. They work with people who are intellectually disabled, and their job is to integrate them into the community. Bruce gave a great slide show on the community living division. Their objective is to help make a “PATH” where people with intellectual disabilities can work in the public like everyone else.
Rotarian Lou mentioned the lack of a buddy system in high school compared to elementary and middle school when his son went to high school, and he asked when they might be able to continue the “buddy system” throughout the entire school system.
Bruce confirmed that they are working on it now and typically, they have to concentrate on the youth in the younger levels as a priority out of necessity because that is the most crucial area. They have an agenda but are limited where they can devote the system and have to choose the youth first and admits that there are challenges with that approach.