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273 - Campus Unlimited, Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Israel
CONTACT
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Ms. Avital Sandler-Loeff
Israel
Email:
OVERALL GOAL /MISSION
Campus Unlimited seeks to create frameworks that support students transitioning into adulthood and those seeking
successful campaigns through higher education, by developing supported opportunities for genuine inclusion. Campus
Unlimited promotes inclusion via a program that serves those of all abilities and those with multiple disabilities. Driven
by a person centric approach, Campus Unlimited believes inclusion can spark genuine and lasting changes in attitudes by
highlighting the experience of young adults with disabilities in a population that is both malleable and committed to
action. Overall, Campus Unlimited promotes social leadership through inclusion in integrated courses of future service
providers and young adults with disabilities, and sponsors a network of grassroots campus groups comprised of students
with and without disabilities seeking concrete and intangible changes to improve the lives of young adults with
disabilities across Israel.
THE SOLUTION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED
To strengthen paths towards true inclusive education, the two tracks of Campus Unlimited focus on current college
students with and without disabilities and future service providers to integrate young adults with disabilities into higher
education. The program creates experiential learning, self-empowerment strategies and self-derived accessibility
mechanisms to effectively create genuine inclusion for young adults with disabilities on college and university campuses
across Israel. In class inclusion is developed through integrated courses that create learning opportunities (film,
photography, theatre) between future service providers and young adults with disabilities, deriving platforms for
students to help one another strengthen their skill sets in an equally empowering manner. In regards to campus wide
inclusion, young adults with and without disabilities are selected to be Campus Unlimited coordinators and work
together as a national network of student groups embedded in universities, creating awareness about the experience of
students with disabilities. Their responsibilities include working with administrations on their campuses to implement
necessary changes and service accommodations needed for true accessibility, partner with student groups to ensure
inclusion, and organize campus-wide programs to promote changes in attitudes as platforms of self-initiated informal
education.