The Embrace Center
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Florida International University, FIU Foundation, Inc.Embrace Center: Person-centered support for promoting health, education, and wellness.
$550
raised by 7 people
$50,000 goal
FIU Embrace Center for Advancing Inclusive Communities provides a person-focused, household-centric approach while recognizing that every differently abled person deserves to be treated as an individual with special talents and challenges. By promoting health, wellness, education, and overall functioning, we help adults with different abilities, such as autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, and other neurodevelopmental disorders, lead healthy, active lives.
The Center’s goal is to assist each differently abled person to live at their fullest potential through research-based and innovative programming, community engagement, and professional skills development. empower differently-abled people to live their most fulfilled lives in inclusive communities.
Donations to the FIU Embrace Center will be used to support maintaining two Snoezelen multi-sensory rooms used for therapeutic interventions, and scholarships for students enrolled in the Education program.