United Cerebral Palsy of San Luis Obispo County

Join us today for our 9th Annual Night Without Limits - a Journey to the Islands. This event will be held virtually, online through Zoom. You can find the link to sign into tonight's event by visiting our website at www.ucp-slo.org. There, you'll also be able to sign onto our virtual Silent and Live auction page, where you can bid on a number of terrific items that will all go to supporting UCP of SLO County! Visit www.ucp-slo.org and click on the links to join us this evening!

FACES (Family Awareness Consulting Education Services) will be hosting twice monthly theme based support groups. Our October meetings will be on the 15th (Topic: Skill Regression) and the 22nd (Working with School Sites with the current challenges). Meetings will be held at 6pm by Zoom and can be accessed here: October 15 @ 6pm: Regression October 22 @ 6pm: Working With School Sites... Visit our website at http://ucp-slo.org/faces/ to access the links to view and access the Zoom links to these meetings! FACES support group is free to attend and is run by Symphony Baldwin and Pam Richerson who each have more than a decade of experience as educators and special education school administrators in both brick and mortar and independent study settings.

Tomorrow is the day! Join UCP and 95.3 The Beach for Life Without Limits Day 2020. You can still request your songs online by visiting the Beach's website at https://www.953thebeach.com/. Your song request & donation will directly support UCP Members in SLO County in our goal of creating a Life Without Limits for People with Disabilities.

Best Practices for Student Centered Virtual IEP’s TONIGHT!! Time: 7pm... Link to Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81079195145 See more

Via UCP's FACES program: IEP’s on Zoom ??? As our 20/21 school year begins, school districts will be offering IEP’s over Zoom. Luckily, Symphony Baldwin has spent the last 16 years of her career supporting families of students with disabilities in independent study. Join Pam and Symphony from FACES as we look at what those IEP’s look like and how to ensure that meetings stay student centered even in virtual times.... Friday, August 21 Time: 7 pm Link to Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81079195145

UCP of SLO County would like to thank 95.3 The Beach and Dimes Media for being a supporter and active partner in helping create a Life Without Limits for people with disabilities in SLO County. On Wednesday August 26th, 2020 our organizations will work together for Life Without Limits Day where you can call in and request a song to be played on 95.3 The Beach and make a $25 donation in support of our UCP Members and their communities! Learn a little more about Life Without Limits Day by visiting our website at: http://www.ucp-slo.org! Thank you 95.3 The Beach and Dimes Media. Additionally, thank you all for supporting UCP and the people that we serve in our community!

Throwback to the times when we could join one another in groups and go to fun, fancy places like Disneyland and baseball games!

We’re tremendously grateful for the support and participation of you, our community, during these times, when offering assistance to those in need is more important than ever. In the wake of these changing times, we’ve created new programs like Project Connect and UCP’s Summer Fun to help connect our UCP Members to one another and to their family and friends. You can directly support our members by donating to our upcoming Life Without Limits Day. UCP has paired up with 95.3 The Beach to host this wonderful event which is being held on Wednesday August 26th, 2020. Make a $25 donation to request a song to be played on @95.3 The Beach on Life Without Limits Day and those funds will directly support our UCP Members and these vital programs! http://www.ucp-slo.org

We've been lucky to both find and create opportunities to spend time with our UCP members - in outdoor, public settings of course. Our UCP Connections program that allows our UCP Members to decide where they want to go in a small group setting, has evolved into UCP Summer Fun - which is a series of smaller group, outdoor based activities. One thing that stands out in these Summer Fun outings is how strong and hopeful everybody is through these times. Their resilience and the ...resilience of their communities is shining through. Please enjoy this short video describing our Ambassador Club, another UCP Program that aims to build character, leadership skills, as well as resilience for our UCP Members! https://youtu.be/SB6iQDIvEI0

UCP of SLO County and 95.3 The Beach Present Life Without Limits Day 2020. Make a $25 donation to request a song to be played on 95.3 The Beach on Wednesday August 26th, 2020. Join UCP on this special day to celebrate inclusion and full participation for people with disabilities in our community. UCP has been working hard with programs like Project Connect and Summer Fun to help everybody stay positive and connected during these uncertain times. Your donations would greatly ...affect the lives of our UCP Members, their families and their communities. You can dedicate a song for someone in your family who may have a disability; or simply someone that you care for. Learn more by visiting the UCP website and clicking on Life Without Limits Day 2020 or go to 95.3 The Beach’s website to request a song. http://ucp-slo.org/

This highly informative article from USA Today gives a nod to the recent 30 year anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act while also speaking a bit into the difficulties people with disabilities have experienced in recent times with the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have a moment, please read. https://www.usatoday.com//ada-turns-30-covid-h/5490448002/

Project Connect gives people with disabilities in SLO County the opportunity to connect with their friends, family and loved ones. Help us connect our members to one another and the community!

Hi all. Last month we ran a series of Parades so that we could have "distance" visits with our UCP Members - it's been so long since we've seen them and we wanted to visit and say hi! So, in a bit of a rush, we created Parades, went to our members houses, and dropped off activity bags! Elizabeth, our UCP Program Manager, wrote a bit about it and posted a couple photos. ... Click below to see our blog post on it: http://ucp-slo.org/a-mid-quarantine-message-from-elizabeth/

Project Connect is our newest campaign that aims to connect people with disabilities in SLO County to one another through technology. Our goal is to provide laptops, internet connection and guidance for members so that they can have Zoom or other types of video conference hangouts with their families, or one another, or with us at UCP. Come to our website to learn more and if you can, PLEASE DONATE! http://ucp-slo.org/project-connect-and-pushsave/

Join our newest program, FACES, for our next Zoom based Workshop: Activities for keeping skills fresh - ESY at Home Mod/Severe Summer is a time for downtime and relaxing, however, for our more impacted population, skills can be lost quickly. With many districts not offering Extended School Year, having academic based activities to keep your student from significant regression is important. Join us as we explore activities that mix summer fun and school skills. This module ...is designed for students with moderate/severe disabilities. Date: June 11, 2020 Time: 8:30-9:30pm Join the workshop by clicking here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88975523534 For more information, including how to access by calling in, call UCP's office at (805) 543-2039.