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Rochelle Callis <br />CRPD Therapeutic Recreation Program Final Report and Recommendations <br />September 8, 2017 page 20 <br />4. Programs offered for people with disabilities <br />5. Collaborative programs <br />6. Transportation <br />7. Recreation inclusion support <br />8. Outreach, fundraising, and advisory boards <br />Summary of Key Findings <br />We have attached a table of all findings as Appendix A. In this section however, we review the key <br />findings in each category of questions, and include CRPD results as well. in the subsequent section, we <br />offer our recommendations to the District, arising from the information gleaned in the interviews. <br />CATEGORY 1: Organization and Demographics <br />Gross Population: we sought entities with gross populations similar to the District. The average was <br />148,057, a difference of approximately 9%. The smallest was Santa Barbara at 91,196, while the <br />largest was the City of Eugene at 160,561. <br />Entity Type: As noted earlier, three of the entities are programs within a park and recreation district, <br />three are programs within a city recreation department, and one is a joint powers authority of four <br />municipalities and three park districts. <br />Philosophy: this was an area of great variance. CRPD believes the philosophy is the provision of <br />therapeutic recreation, but it also offers recreation and leisure participation options. <br />Two entities believed that services include both therapeutic recreation and recreation opportunities <br />for people with disabilities. Four believed services were recreation for people with disabilities. Some <br />may think these terms are interchangeable; they are not. <br />Most in the field understand therapeutic recreation as a subset of the profession of parks and <br />recreation. A growing number of professionals see therapeutic recreation more as therapy and less as <br />recreation. We do address this in our recommendations. <br />Program Name: this too was an area of variance. The entity names reflected the philosophical <br />differences of the organizations. Names were: <br />a Therapeutic Recreation Program (CRPD) <br />4 Therapeutic Recreation Program (Rockford) <br />THE W -T GRo ' F - <br />DBA RECREATION ACCESSIBILITY CONSULT C <br />ONE SOURCE. INFINITE SOLUTIONS, <br />