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Rochelle Callis CRPD Therapeutic Recreation Program Final Report and Recommendations September 8, 2017 page 25 CATEGORY 5: Collaborative Programs Approach to Collaboration with Other Agencies: most collaborate with other entities. Some do so to gain access to facilities such as schools or facilities they do not have, others do so to expand the number of program offerings, and others do so because it increases awareness. Summer Collaboration: the response varied. Two (SRACLC and Rockford) had joint summer programs or activities with the schools. Eugene is trying to develop this too. Santa Barbara has a no -fee drop-in program at schools. Others managed their own programs. CATEGORY 6: Transportation Owned Vehicles: the response varied. SRACLC has six vehicles and qualified drivers. Rockford has one. Eugene has two. Santa Barbara has a 40 seat bus. Oxnard has vans but none are lift -equipped. RSRPD and CRPD do not have transportation in the programs for people with disabilities. CRPD TR has access to two vans, and regularly employed staffs are required to attain the proper driver's license. There is, however, no dedicated TR driver, meaning that for every hour an employee drives, he or she is closer to the 30 -hour maximum. Provides Door -to -Door Transportation: only two do so and not for all programs (Rockford, SRACLC). One provides curb -to -curb transportation. CRPD provides this service for some who live independently of family, or for those who cannot drive. The other California agencies do not provide this service. CATEGORY 7: Recreation Inclusion Support Supports Inclusive Participation: not every agency described supports for inclusive participation. Eugene, Rockford, and the Illinois JPA all had strong systems in place. California agencies had disparate approaches, with CRPD and Santa Barbara having the greatest awareness of this mandate. Inclusion Lead Staff: those entities that support inclusion had a full-time person assigned to this area, and in one instance, that employee had other duties. Credentials ranged from RTC to CTRS to a behavior management credential. Inclusion Assessments: a divide occurs here. Out of California, all agencies had a centralized inclusion process, where staffs with a therapeutic recreation background and credential conducted assessments of registrants, and created plans. In California, while Santa Barbara and CRPD leaned that way, program and facility staffs with no disability experience often performed those tasks, without even a consult by therapeutic recreation staffs. We believe this is an inadequate approach, and yields inconsistent results. THE W -T GROr DBA RECREATION ACCESSIBILITY CONSULT' i .0 ONE SOURCE. INFINITE SOLUTIONS.