Spring 2017
Committee:
Regional Affairs
Whereas, students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans with disabilities) may seek physical therapy resources in their community, staffed with trained therapists, and that offer adaptive exercise equipment and adapted aquatics (handicap accessible swimming pools), to provide them with essential exercise and physical therapy to maintain their physical health and well-being;
Whereas, students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans with disabilities), may come from low-income backgrounds, and lack health insurance or personal finances to pay for these essential physical therapy resources from privately run physical therapy centers or gyms;
Whereas, many California Community College campuses currently do not have an established and/or recognized Adapted Physical Education Center to provide for physical therapy resources for the essential health needs of their students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans), and thus are deficient in offering those essential health services; and
Whereas, those California Community College campuses that do have an established and/or recognized Adapted Physical Education Center - offered through their Kinesiology Departments - are filled to capacity and are often serving students with disabilities living outside of their geographical area; be it
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges will work in collaboration with ASOs to advocate with their California Community College Districts and Admin to identify and establish a handicap accessible Adapted Physical Education Center on each CCC campus that will feature adaptive exercise equipment and adapted aquatics (handicap accessible swimming pools), in order to provide students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans) with essential health services; and be it
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges will work in collaboration with ASOs to advocate with their California Community College Districts and Admin to make sure that Adapted Physical Education courses shall be offered at each CCC campus through their Kinesiology Departments; and be it
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges encourage California community college’s administrators to hire full time trained therapists to staff and adequately maintain the Adapted Physical Education Center program.
Whereas, students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans with disabilities), may come from low-income backgrounds, and lack health insurance or personal finances to pay for these essential physical therapy resources from privately run physical therapy centers or gyms;
Whereas, many California Community College campuses currently do not have an established and/or recognized Adapted Physical Education Center to provide for physical therapy resources for the essential health needs of their students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans), and thus are deficient in offering those essential health services; and
Whereas, those California Community College campuses that do have an established and/or recognized Adapted Physical Education Center - offered through their Kinesiology Departments - are filled to capacity and are often serving students with disabilities living outside of their geographical area; be it
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges will work in collaboration with ASOs to advocate with their California Community College Districts and Admin to identify and establish a handicap accessible Adapted Physical Education Center on each CCC campus that will feature adaptive exercise equipment and adapted aquatics (handicap accessible swimming pools), in order to provide students with physical and developmental disabilities (including student veterans) with essential health services; and be it
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges will work in collaboration with ASOs to advocate with their California Community College Districts and Admin to make sure that Adapted Physical Education courses shall be offered at each CCC campus through their Kinesiology Departments; and be it
Resolved, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges encourage California community college’s administrators to hire full time trained therapists to staff and adequately maintain the Adapted Physical Education Center program.