Sweets for the Sweet

Prime Time for Kids is gearing up for Valentine’s Day. “This is the perfect holiday to talk about friendship,” says ARC Director of Children’s Services Donna Bogin. “We emphasize the importance of kindness and the benefits of sharing. The children enjoy participating in an array of crafts projects involving hearts.”
Pictured at left, Dayami Bruno.

Prime Time Grant Recipient

Dennis and Ming Allen, accept iPads on behalf of their twin daughters Sarah and Chesna Allen during a January 28 dinner at Platzl Brauhaus. The iPads were donated by the Forever Jordan Foundation (www.foreverjordan.org). The Allen twins are students at ARC’s Prime Time Upper School in New City. The iPads will enhance the girls’ ability to communicate. The Forever Jordan Foundation also provided Prime Time with an MP3 player, wireless headphones, an MP3 headphone dock, a storage center for the items and a gift certificate to purchase books on tape. The equipment will become part of the Technology Center currently being established at Prime Time. Pictured at right is Annie Culianos, BCBA, Coordinator of Social Work at Prime Time for Kids.

On Air

ARC of Rockland is the grateful recipient of two large screen TVs donated by the Nanuet Fire Department. The televisions are located at Franklin Square, ARC’s post high school campus in Pearl River and ARC Careers, also in Pearl River. “We are currently using the TVs to air instructional videos that reinforce classroom activities and lessons,” says Amy Hurwitz, Program Coordinator, ARC Careers. “We thank the Nanuet Fire Department for providing us with this excellent addition to our program. Mike Shumake, a job coach with ARC Careers is a member of the Nanuet Fire Department.

ARC Board Member Sonia Crannage, Esq.; Karen
Feinstein, ARC President; NYS Commissioner Burke
and ARC Board Member Irving Caminsky, PhD


Karyl Caplan, Executive Director, center, with NYS Commissioner Courtney Burke and Executive Directors
of other area agencies

Commissioner Burke Meets Rockland Execs.

Courtney Burke, Commissioner of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, met recently with Executive Directors of Rockland County agencies helping people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Among those present were ARC Executive Director Karyl Caplan and several ARC of Rockland Board Members. The Commissioner provided an overview of Governor Cuomo’s State of the State 2012 address and responded to questions regarding upcoming changes in health care services. The January 10 event took place at Jawonio headquarters in New City.

Artist at Work

Thomas Dougherty puts the finishing touches on a ceramic piece in the art room at ARC headquarters in Congers.  Working with Mr. Dougherty is Judy Hetzl, Assistant with ARC Seniors. The ceramic items are created from liquid clay which is poured into a mold, dried and fired twice in a kiln, once before painting and once after painting. ARC artists choose from a variety of molds some of which have practical applications and some of which are decorative in nature.