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Students in the 6:1:2 class at Westview in the Department for Exceptional Children are always ready for a chance to try out practical life skills.

Student volunteers from Westview in the Department for Exceptional Children visit different BOCES 2 preschool classes several times every year. Recently, two of them stopped into Autumn Lane Elementary School in Greece.

The STEM classroom at Westview was busy in the weeks before the winter holidays, filled with the sound of saws and sanders. High school students there were cutting out a small forest of plywood tree ornaments, each destined to be decorated by an excited preschooler.

At Westview, the goal is to build bridges between people and create a safe, gentle environment where kindness can thrive, and children can learn. To help achieve this, the school is welcoming some very special visitors – certified therapy dogs.

Folks in the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES Autism Services Department are celebrating neurodiversity with a beautiful new mural outside their offices created by Ridgecrest Academy’s art teacher Bryce Doty.

Students at Westview in the Department for Exceptional Children are always ready to step up and lend a hand. On November 22, six student volunteers and four staff members visited Cameron Community Ministries to prove they could make a difference.