As soon as I walked through the doors of School of the Holy Childhood, I couldn’t help but display a huge smile on my face. What an incredible place to visit! You can’t go wrong visiting the only school that I have ever seen where you are allowed to ride a bike in the hallway!
United Way’s Community Fund support the School of Holy Childhood’s Children’s program, which helps children with development disabilities with independence and integration. Teachers and staff focus on individualized education, vocational training, and clinical treatment.
When I was visiting, I noticed a board with a picture of last year’s graduating class. The students graduate at the age of 21. It was really emotional looking at it, because most of the grads have been going to Holy Childhood since they were five years old.
Each year, on average 10 students graduate. They go on to jobs in the community such as Wegmans, or are placed at different non-profits like the ARC of Monroe, CDS, Lifetime Assistance, Heritage Christian Services, and some of the grads come back to places at Holy Childhood. They work in the bakery, woodshop, or the workstation stuffing envelopes.
I don’t think I have ever experienced anything like Holy Childhood. The walls are full of great artwork and pictures. Every new wing brought another surprise and each classroom was totally different than the next. Classrooms showed the student independence skills such as loading a dishwasher, doing laundry, folding laundry, and basic cooking skills.
The school also had an amazing ceramics class, a bakery where they create their famous pies, a weaving room that the whole back wall was full of yarn waiting to be made into a masterpiece, and an unbelievable wood shop. The School was even a host of a work station that the graduates could come and work, where they put together the 401k packets for Paychex!
If you want to learn more about the great things that School of the Holy Childhood is doing, check out their website at http://www.holychildhood.org/.
United Way’s Community Fund support the School of Holy Childhood’s Children’s program, which helps children with development disabilities with independence and integration. Teachers and staff focus on individualized education, vocational training, and clinical treatment.
When I was visiting, I noticed a board with a picture of last year’s graduating class. The students graduate at the age of 21. It was really emotional looking at it, because most of the grads have been going to Holy Childhood since they were five years old.
Each year, on average 10 students graduate. They go on to jobs in the community such as Wegmans, or are placed at different non-profits like the ARC of Monroe, CDS, Lifetime Assistance, Heritage Christian Services, and some of the grads come back to places at Holy Childhood. They work in the bakery, woodshop, or the workstation stuffing envelopes.
I don’t think I have ever experienced anything like Holy Childhood. The walls are full of great artwork and pictures. Every new wing brought another surprise and each classroom was totally different than the next. Classrooms showed the student independence skills such as loading a dishwasher, doing laundry, folding laundry, and basic cooking skills.
The school also had an amazing ceramics class, a bakery where they create their famous pies, a weaving room that the whole back wall was full of yarn waiting to be made into a masterpiece, and an unbelievable wood shop. The School was even a host of a work station that the graduates could come and work, where they put together the 401k packets for Paychex!
If you want to learn more about the great things that School of the Holy Childhood is doing, check out their website at http://www.holychildhood.org/.
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