ACTION TOWARD INDEPENDENCE Recreation Program will be having a fundraising event Thursday November 29, 2007. Treat your family to a post Thanksgiving treat or an early Christmas gift! We will be seeing Cirque Du Soliel at the Theater at Madison Square Garden for the 11 am performance. We have excellent seats (second section front rows center). DEPARTS ATI AT 9 AM SHARP! The show is over at 1 pm and we should return by 3 pm to Middletown. The tickets will normally sell for $110.00pp without transportation but you will have coach bus transportation from ATI at 9 am sharp. You are saving on the ticket cost, gas, and tolls and getting transportation (no reduction in price if you take your own vehicle) as well as getting the best seats available! These 25 tickets will be sold first come-first served for $80.00 per person- adult or child. You must give a $40 pp deposit at the time of booking and the balance must be paid by November 15th in full. NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSITS! YOU MAY TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO CALL IF THEY ARE INTERESTED HELP SUPPORT THE ATI RECREATION PROGRAM WE ALSO WELCOME YOUR DONATION Community Integration is the opportunity to live in the community and be valued for one's uniqueness and abilities, like everyone else Community Integration: Concept & History Community integration has been a strongly held value and goal in mental health policy that has recently been affirmed as a right of people with cognitive and psychiatric disabilities based on the landmark 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision. The Olmstead ruling concluded that it is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act to discriminate against people with disabilities by providing services only in institutions when they could be served equally as well, or more effectively, in a community-based setting. The concept of community integration has generally been thought of in terms of greater "physical presence in the community" and the subsequent focus on closing psychiatric hospitals and reducing the number of people who are institutionalized.