[Nfbofnc] Fwd: [Nfbnet-members-list] summer fun and Blind Industries and Services of Maryland Independence 2011

[Tim Jones]

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From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:54 AM
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] summer fun and Blind Industries and
Services of Maryland Independence 2011
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It is cold outside, so it is time to start thinking about summer fun
and Blind Industries and Services of Maryland Independence 2011!

Last year Independence 2010 was a great success and this year it is
going to be even better.

Independence 2011 is a seven-week residential program where blind and
low vision youth entering into the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in the
fall of 2011 will have the opportunity to learn the nonvisual skills
of blindness from successful blind instructors. We will return to the
campus of Towson University, where students will live in apartments
with their blind adult instructors/mentors and learn how to manage
their own apartment, cook, clean, grocery shop, manage money, wash
clothes, to name just a few things. Not only will students of the
seven-week residential program learn the skills of blindness through
classes such as cane travel, Braille, computer/technology, and
independent living (Home Ec.) but they are going to be able to gain
that much needed resume builder – paid employment. With these economic
times, who doesn’t need a little extra spending money? Students will
have the opportunity to work a total of 30-40 hours in the community
during the last two weeks of the program.

Independence 2011 is going to attend the national convention of the
National Federation of the Blind in Orlando, FL and participate in the
National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam and we can’t forget spend
a day having fun in Disney World. Then, there are the times that we
explore Baltimore, Towson, visit our Nation’s capital, attend an O’s
game, go swimming, check out a movie or two and we can’t forget those
evenings of playing cards until the wee hours of morning.

Sound fun!?! You better believe it!

Dates: June 19 – August 5, 2011

For information about Independence 2011 please email me at
aphelps at bism.org or call 410-737-2642.

Warm regards,

Amy C. Phelps

Amy C. Phelps, CRC, NOMC

Check out information about our summer youth program: Independence 2011

Blind Industries and Services of Maryland
3345 Washington Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21227
Phone: 410-737-2642
Mobile: 410-274-1647
Fax: 410-737-2689
Toll Free: 888-322-4567
E-mail: aphelps at bism.org

"...given proper training and opportunity, the average blind person
can do the average job in the average place of business and do it as
well as his or her sighted neighbor..." Freedom for the Blind, James
H. Omvig



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