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Name: Adventures in Odyssey
Website: http://www.whitsend.org/
Description: Adventures in Odyssey presents original audio stories brought to life by actors who make you feel like part of the experience. These fictional, character-building dramas are created by an award-winning team that uses storytelling to teach lasting truths.
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Name: Autism Speaks
Website: http://www.autismspeaks.org/
Description: Autism Speaks' multi-year Ad Council public service advertising campaign stresses the importance of recognizing the early signs of autism and seeking early intervention services.
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Name: Oakstone Academy
Website: http://www.ccde.org
Description: The Oakstone Academy is a non-profit, fully inclusive, chartered school dedicated to serving children with autism and their families. Our commitment is to work collaboratively with educators in our community to make effective services affordable for families and school districts. We are determined to use the principles of applied behavior analysis within the natural environment and implement the most effective empirically based strategies to promote language, social, behavioral, and academic competency in children with autism. Further, we extend continuity of services by providing educational placements from preschool through elementary grades, while supporting the family at home, school, and in the community.
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Name: Upward Bound
Website: http://upward.owu.edu/
Description: Upward Bound is one of six national federally funded TRIO Programs. Our mission is to provide high school students (low-income and potential-first-generation college students) with the skills and motivation needed to enter and complete a college or university of their choice. Over the past 39 years, the program has served hundreds of Columbus area families. OWU Upward Bound has a 100 percent college-placement rate and a 64% college graduation rate. The program presently serves 115 students who are recruited as freshman and sophomores. As determined by the grant proposal, qualifying students must attend one of the 'target schools'. A list of these schools can be found in the Who is Eligible section. Students are also eligible if they live in the Columbus Enterprise Zone.
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