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December 2011

All is well at Lanterman High School in Los Angeles. Stephen Flinn, our TRAP facilitator, seems to be having as much fun as his 30 students, and he feels good about the progress he sees in them over the last few months. We collected lots of on site early photo and video data back in October and shared a brief portion with our newsletter friends. If you'd like to receive our quarterly newsletter, please go to our CONTACT US link and sign up.

October 2011

Count Me In, Lanterman, a project that we created for Lanterman High School in Los Angeles, is now officially underway thanks to a matching funds grant from the Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation and supportive funds from the Rags for Riches Foundation. Count Me In brings The Rhythmic Arts Program (TRAP) to 30 Lanterman students with developmental and cognitive disabilities. Stephen Flinn, a veteran TRAP facilitator and professional drummer who has much experience working with special needs students, will deliver the TRAP program. Lanterman's principal, Christina Cisneros, is thrilled to have Count Me In underway with her Lanterman students and enthusiastic about working with Stephen and CBC to make the project a success. We hope to have pictures soon.

July 2011

TRAP-LANTERMAN--Count Me In, Lanterman, a program that we created for Lanterman High School in Los Angeles, CA is scheduled to begin this September!  This project will serve 30 high school students with developmental and cognitive disabilities.  We received a matching funds grant for the Rochelle and Richard Maize Foundation and supportive funds from the Rags for Riches Foundation, putting us well within reach of our funding goal.  We will provide more info about this great project soon.

April 2011

We are currently negotiating with Lanterman High School in Los Angeles to bring TRAP to 30 of their students during the 2011-12 academic year. At the same time, we're talking with people in two other states who are interested in hosting TRAP. Our efforts to "grow" TRAP have become central to much of what we've been working on within CBC of late. We hope to have something concrete to announce soon.

January, 2011

CBC has been working closely with Eddie Tuduri and his board members during the past several months to develop and finalize our collaborative arrangement with TRAP. Our plan is to begin, this month, to identify one or more locations in the Los Angeles area that would like to incorporate TRAP into their programming for young children and those with special needs. Once those coalition partnerships are secured, we'll set out to locate appropriate funding sources. We're all excited about the possibilities this working relationship holds for helping kids.

For more information about The Rhythmic Arts Program click  TRAP INFO

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