Art Van Challenge Grant Brings Promise to the Conductive Learning Center

The Conductive Learning Center at Aquinas College was recently awarded $15,000 by Art Van Furniture to help the center carry on the mission to serve children with motor disorders. The grant was designed as a challenge in order to encourage others to donate and maximize fundraising opportunities. Since the nonprofit organization has also been chosen as a charity partner for next year’s Fifth Third Riverbank Run, the grant couldn’t have been more timely.
 

"The Conductive Learning Center is honored to be selected for this grant by Art Van Furniture,” boasts Executive Director Terry Stelter. “We work very hard to raise funds to help families through scholarships. The Art Van Challenge grant gives Conductive Learning Center a unique opportunity to leverage the example set by Art Van to raise additional funds as a 2012 Fifth Third River Bank Run Charity Partner."
 

The learning center provides a conductive education that is an intensive, multi-disciplinary approach to education, training and development for children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and other motor challenges. The method was developed in Hungary by Dr. Andras Peto in 1945. It integrates medical knowledge with educational methods to teach children how to gain control over their movements. 
 

The Conductive Learning Center strives for its students to achieve independence.
 

 “At the basic core of parenthood, parents of children with challenges often hope for just the basics in life -- for their child to fit in with others and to be included,” explains Jodi Douse, a parent of one the children attending the agency. “Through our journey, we have found [the Conductive Learning Center] meets the diverse needs of our child. The staff treats children with special needs just as children with able-bodies. The children are given every opportunity to thrive.”

 

Now with additional grant money and a challenge to raise an additional $15,000 at next year’s Fifth Third Riverbank Run, the organization may award increased and/or additional scholarships to families with children in need. And you can help too. Here’s how to put the good back in do-gooder with the Conductive Learning Center:
 

• “Like” them on facebook

• Learn more about the organization

• Donate

• Attend the “Evening of Celebration 2011” event on October 18 
 

Source: Terry Stelter, Conductive Learning Center; Jodi Douse

Writer: Jennifer Wilson, Do Good Editor