On April 30, Gulf Coast Teaching Family Services, Inc. was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation. The grant will provide a new Activity Center that will be a safe place for GCTFS consumers to experience new learning opportunities, encourage social interaction and make new friends. The goal of the program is to integrate people with physical, mental and emotional challenges into the community and to interact with others.
Specifically, the grant will be used to purchase computers, special needs software (providing
instruction related to money skills, personal hygiene and safety, among others), multi-adjustable workstations, chairs, educational games, a refrigerator and a microwave.
Program director, Mona Ardoin said “More and more parents of younger consumers are extremely interested in seeing that their loved ones achieve all that they can in life. The Activity Center will go a long way toward furthering that objective.”