PERRY COUNTY SUITS UP FOR ACCESSIBLE FITNESS CENTER

Center for Independent Living of Central PA to Open Second Office in Newport

(Newport, Pa.) —It’s time to pump iron in Perry County! The Center for Independent Living of Central PA (CILCP) announces an expansion of its fully-accessible fitness center into Newport. Slated to open in May 2010, the Newport office will provide the people of Perry, Mifflin and Juniata counties with a fully-accessible fitness center and potential assistance services.

Located in the old Newport Hotel, the building also houses apartments for senior citizens and sits across the street from housing for people with disabilities. The new office will feature a fully-accessible fitness center designed to meet the needs of both senior citizens and people with disabilities. Facilities can be used free of charge to CILCP’s consumers.

The fitness center will offer accessible equipment including a Magnum ADA Advantage Trainer with accessories. This piece of equipment provides over 20 different exercise patterns to work the upper body muscles. It also has supportive back padding for individuals using a wheelchair. The MOTOmed, a cycling machine for the arms and legs, is also available, as well as boxing gloves and medicine balls. All equipment is designed for people with disabilities, even those who have no or limited feeling in their limbs.

The center will also integrate services from the Living Well With A Disability program. Living Well With A Disability is a free resource that connects individuals with any type of disability to a qualified Living Well specialist. The specialist meets with the individual and assists the person in identifying needs and goals to live well, and developing a plan for meeting them.

At the new office, the staff will include a program manager, with Living Well specialists periodically available. These specialists can offer any resident with a disability services from Living Well With A Disability.

“We saw the need for an additional office and we are very excited that our consumers in Perry, Mifflin, and Juniata counties now have a place to go without having to travel to our Camp Hill location,” says CILCP’s Executive Director Theotis W. Braddy. “The location itself is also ideal as it’s so close to our built-in customer base.”

The law offices of Reager & Adler sponsored a portion of the fitness equipment, with the remaining funded through CILCP revenue. The fitness center and office will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

To learn more about the Newport office, contact Janetta Green, Director of Operations for CILCP at 717-731-1900. For more information on Living Well With A Disability, call 1-877-TO-LIVE-WELL or visit www.livingwellwithadisability.org.

About Center for Independent Living of Central PA

For over 20 years, CILCP has been serving people with all types of disabilities who live in Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, Mifflin and Juniata counties. It is a consumer controlled, cross disability organization dedicated to assisting people with disabilities to achieve and maintain independent life styles. From achieving a small task to accomplishing a life-changing goal, CILCP is helping people with disabilities exceed their lifestyle expectations through one point of contact.

For more information regarding this press release, please contact Stefanie Hare at 717-432-2468 or Stefanie@TheSuasionWay.com.

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