Lifelong Learning Program
Lifelong Learning Program
MCP offers comprehensive, meaningful training and experiences at our Lifelong Learning Program as part of its services for those individuals who are beyond school age. The program strives to provide and develop warm nurturing relationships and care, which is responsive to each individual needs and promotes individuals with unique abilities to get out of their homes, experience a more normal rhythm of day, and enjoy routines that are stimulating and common to society at large.
The program is conducted at an offsite facility consisting of nine (9) classrooms, a music and art room. The Lifelong Learning Program Coordinator oversees the operations and staffing of the Lifelong Learning Program and works with the Community Life Skills/Teacher, the interdisciplinary team and residential staff to provide integrated, creative and enriching programs and activities.
The classroom activities and ambiance are guided by the needs and interest of each individual with a path to reach their full potential and include:
Social Café
Run by the students which, operates as a micro-business that requires activities such as purchasing items from local community stores, setting-up the café, and conducting business-related functions to include cashier, food prep, inventory and other duties.
Creative Breakthrough Art Studio
Students also participate in the Creative Breakthrough Art Studio whereby they learn about art, create art, and sell their art during planned Art Exhibitions or through periodic catalogs.
Sound Haven (Music)
Sound Haven (Music Classes) is a dedicated music studio and learning space with state-of-the-art equipment and instruments located at our Lifelong Learning Program. Our Miami Cerebral Palsy Music Department is a forward-thinking team, who aspire to enrich the lives of the people we support through music and innovative adaptive-technologies. The MCP Music Department offers group and individual classes in:
- Music Appreciation
- Piano
- Vocal (singing & rapping)
- Guitar
- Music production & composition
- Sound baths (meditative singing bowls)
- Music theory
Other supported activities…..
Horticulture, A bowling league, and Internet Café at local coffee shops are just a few other supported activities offered at the Lifelong Learning Program.
