By Shannon Lukens. (Courtesy photo)

 

The special needs program at Steamboat Springs High School is looking for a van to be donated to program at the school, if anyone has one. Chuck Rosemond is the teacher. They need the van for their transition programming, which is where the students go to learn different things in the community before transitioning out after graduation.

“For example, we take students to LiftUp and they have jobs at LiftUp. We go once or twice a week and they’ll do work-based learning activities. We visit the Warhorse Ranch which is a therapeutic working horse ranch where our kids have jobs. They don’t go to ride horses. They go to take care of horses out there. So if we had a vehicle that we could use that would be dedicated to the center-based transition programming, as the primary focus for the use of the vehicle, that would be huge.”

The special needs program has eight students now but they expect it to double next year. Rosemond is hoping for a 15-passenger vehicle. Call the high school principal if you can help.