Experiencing the world through music, art, and real-life skills
The Center for Arts & Adult Education is designed to serve 200 individuals from the age of 18 through retirement with a wide range of needs, including those who are multi-handicapped, deaf/blind, intellectually disabled, and/or dually diagnosed. Support is provided to learn and reinforce basic life skills, vocational skills, and behavior management, as well as creative endeavors such as photography, jewelry making, culinary arts, gardening, and wood working.
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Wendy focuses on her painting
Our curriculum is as varied as our population and includes both classroom and community training settings. Through our Arts program, we offer individuals continuing opportunities to explore and expand their senses through participation in art and music activities as well as opportunities to integrate with community members through the Volunteer Program. We focus on individual health and well-being through our Fitness and Recreation Center, providing exercise, personal training, therapy, and chiropractic services. Our Ronald Roher Outdoor Enrichment Center provides a tranquil setting for groups or individuals to enjoy a variety of leisure and recreational activities.
Eric creating a masterpiece
Additional opportunities for CAAE participants include working at our thrift and re-sale shop, Potpourri on the Coast, which offers items made by clients in our adult program as well as gently used donated household items and clothing, helping at local restaurants, managing a booth at the Oceanside Farmers' Market, and operating an in-house Recycling Center. We have also proudly started our own Red Hat Society Chapter which meets monthly.
Agricultural Program
Having living, growing things to care for makes a tremendous difference in the life quality of our students and adults.
TERI has dedicated a portion of its 20 acre San Marcos campus to the establishment of an Agricultural Program that serves as both outdoor classroom and vocational training site, where the experience of tending plants, flowers, and vegetables can be as valuable as what participants learn in a traditional classroom setting. The Agricultural Programs has several components:
Students from the Aricultural program proud of their growing plants
- Raised bed gardens, which are wheelchair accessible. The variety of herbs, vegetables, and flowers are either transplanted, dried for use in craft projects, or packaged for personal use or sale in our shop, Potpourri On The Coast in Oceanside. Organic gardening and composting are fundamental components of the program, and students and adults participate in all facets of planting and tending. This tactile medium also provides beneficial therapeutic experience.
- The Pumpkin Patch is used to grow future Jack-O-Lanterns for distribution to our residences, schools, and adults programs. On the off season, melons are harvested just in time for summer events, barbeques, and picnics.
- While the care of this 20 acre site is professionally maintained by staff - students and adults assist with many of the routine landscaping duties around the property. Watering, weed abatement, lawn care, and maintaining walking trails are all part of the vocational training program designed to promote independence while enjoying the health benefits of being outdoors and the beauty of nature.
Most of the plants and growing materials used in our Agricultural Program have been donated by our friends, neighbors, and businesses throughout the community. We are grateful to our local agricultural community for their support. Recently, TERI was awarded funding from the San Marcos Community Foundation to support equipment and materials needed for the on-going maintenance of this program.
If you have an interest in assisting with this project, or know of a business that might make a tax deductible contribution, please contact us at 760-721-1706.
Ronald Roher Outdoor Enrichment Center
Reviving body and mind in a tranquil retreat
Using Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) funds from the City of Oceanside ($15k) and the City of Encinitas ($10k), TERI was able to redesign an empty 10,000 square foot plot of outdoor space amid industrial businesses into a peaceful, park-like recreation and fitness area. Here, our adults and students can safely pursue leisure activities on the beautiful green turf, eat lunch in the shade of a tree, or relax in one of the patio swings. Named in memory of one of TERI's co-founders, Ronald Roher, the park serves as a resource for all to enjoy.
Transportation
Moving hundreds throughout the day with safety & efficiency Most of our students and adults are unable to access public or private transportation due to medical or behavioral needs. TERI maintains a fleet of vehicles, including several that are wheelchair lift equipped. TERI provides transportation to students and adults throughout our educational, residential, training, and family support services, with drivers and support staff offering door-to-door assistance.
To volunteer for any of these programs, please contact 760-721-1706 |
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