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Community Inclusion Club’s goals, events, and partnership with Sparkles
By Kate Meis
Everyone is invited to get involved when it comes to Community Inclusion Club. After hosting its ice cream social to kick off the year, the organization is on to planning upcoming events for the fall.
“Community Inclusion Club, otherwise known as CIC works to create socially inclusive opportunities for people with disabilities and their non-disabled peers. We’re trying to build friendships and connect people in our schools so that everyone feels welcome and no one feels alone,” Club President Eli Foster ‘25 said. The junior has been a part of the club since his freshman year, spending his sophomore and now junior years on the club’s leadership team.
The organization hosts many events throughout the school year, trying to organize an activity for its members at least once a month.
“They’re basically big hangout sessions where we just invite everyone to come, and then we have a party. So just recently, we had
CLUBS our ice cream social recruitment event.” Foster said.
The club’s recent ice cream social was to aid in one of CIC’s continual goals of growing and expanding as a student organization.
“We want to get this club known to as many people as we can and continue to keep an inclusive space for everyone. Everyone is welcome. [The ice cream social] was for new people to come and to see what our club is about or to come and decide if they want to sign up, and to get the year started off. I know last minute it had to be moved inside because of the pouring rain, but we had a great turnout,” Foster said.
As CIC gets back into full swing the club has begun planning its first events, hoping to change a past event so it’s accessible to all.
“In the past years, we’ve gone to Wilson’s Apple Orchard but we’ve decided not to do that because it’s not fully inclusive for people with wheelchairs,” Foster said. This year the club is looking to have a Fall event at Kroul’s Pumpkin Patch to make sure all can participate.
