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Community Options

A Room to Heal teamed up with SEFCU to create our first official sensory room project which will offer varying levels of stimulation to aid in calming individuals who may need a little extra help at times. The sensory room is for Community Options, a non-profit in Binghamton, NY. Community Options helps people with disabilities find jobs and housing, along with providing day habilitation programs. They work with children as young as 5, as well as adults.
The room at Community Options was equipped with tactile objects, mirrors, and other stress relieving sensory items that are relaxing to people with disabilities.
"A lot of our individuals require help a lot of tactile things to help if they're having a hard time expressing themselves, they'd be able to come in here and use self-calming techniques," says Kellyann Shea, Day Habilitation Coordinator at Community Options.
Co-founder of ARTH, Linda Salomons, and past board member and SEFCU Member Service Leader, JoAnn Rheinheimer, worked with Community Options for 3 month to create a plan and research materials and equipment to make this room just right! Funding for this room was generously donated by SEFCU, who has been partnering with A Room to Heal for over 5 years.

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