Best Futures Teaches Teens With Disabilities How to Work
The nonprofit employs more than 20 teens and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at a concession stand at Centennial Ice Arena. It hosts a fundraiser at Stashs tonight.
If you got a drink from the concession stand at Centennial Ice Arena last winter, you also gave a special group of people a unique learning opportunity. That's because for the past year, the concession stand at Centennial has been run by Best Futures, a non-profit started by a group of mothers to employ teens and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Want Highland Park news in your inbox every morning? Subscribe to Patch's newsletter. "We had found out that the ice rink concession stand was vacant and we thought it'd be a great idea if we took it over and employed kids with special needs, since there are not many employment opportunities for the special needs population," said Lisa Whitefield, a Highland Park resident …
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Amy Greenebaum
9:08 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
Great job getting this together and giving the kids an opportunity for a work experience, Bravo to all who made this happen. Good luck with the fundraiser Tues evening! more ›