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Best Practices – Provider

Submission date: 5-14-08
Submitted by: Noeline Coore
Provider name: Community Options for the Developmentally Disabled
APD Area: 9

Practice
Happy Mail Club–a pen pal program with soldiers stationed in Iraq, which started three years ago. Individuals correspond with deployed soldiers overseas via letters, cards, care packages, etc.

Who Benefits?
How? Individuals in the Pen Pal program, as well as soldiers serving in the US Armed Forces benefit from the contact. Relationships are forged, developed and maintained throughout the years.