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Rochelle Callis CRPD Therapeutic Recreation Program Final Report and Recommendations September 8, 2017 page 19 and other part-time staffs, it delivers recreation programs for persons with disabilities. The OSP offerings include more regularly scheduled weekly programs, such as golf every Saturday afternoon. City of Santa Barbara Department of Recreation Inclusion Services and Adaptive Recreation: this program is a municipal program with more than 40 years of history providing adaptive programs. Smaller than the District in gross population, it has some similarities. The Department houses this program in a recreation facility, and tasked the program staffs with inclusion support as well as adaptive program management, 13 years ago. Of the California agencies interviewed, aside from CRPD, it appears to offer the most comprehensive programs. City of Eugene (OR) Recreation Services Department Adaptive and Senior Recreation Services: an old program, the City of Eugene began offering recreation for people with disabilities in 1969, the same year in which these programs began in Illinois. The Eugene program is expansive, and is officed in a center built in 1989 for its programs. Staffed well, it is a good west coast model for the District. Rockford (IL) Park District Therapeutic Recreation Program: perhaps the most similar in philosophy, this special district program started in 1989 as a summer camp for children with disabilities. It grew rapidly, and drew many nonresidents from surrounding suburban Rockford. It does participate in an intergovernmental partnership, or JPA, but operates therapeutic recreation programs, for the most part, independently. Of almost exactly the same gross population, it has a surprisingly large number of full-time staff, at five, including the Manager of Therapeutic Recreation. Special Recreation Association of Central Lake County (IL): this special recreation association, (SRA), or JPA, was formed in 1976. This entity, known as SRACLC, is a partnership of four municipalities and three park districts formed to provide recreation for people with disabilities who live in the partner communities. A seven -member board of directors governs the entity, establishes policy, and hires a Director to implement those policies. He in turn hires the seven other professional staff, and hundreds of seasonal or part-time staffs. Interview Question Categories After our first visit in late November of 2016, in consultation with District staff we proposed to seek information in eight general categories. We acknowledged that the interviews might in some instances, take us far afield from these categories (they did from time to time). We also knew that some questions and categories would be irrelevant to the interviewee. The eight categories included 68 questions, and the categories are: I. Organization and demographics 2. Staffing and credentials 3. Annual funding and expenditures THE W -T GROOS -, DBA RECREATION ACCESSIBILITY CONSULA ' '.0 ONE SOURCE. INFINITE SOLUTIONS.