{"id":121987,"date":"2020-03-12T02:06:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/?p=121987"},"modified":"2021-04-15T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:01:42","slug":"csufs-best-buddies-chapter-offer-friendship-fun-to-students-with-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/csuf-bestbuddieschapter","title":{"rendered":"CSUF\u2019s Best Buddies chapter featured on The Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe see inclusion as a tool that gets easier every time you use it,\u201d said group president Cristina Narvasa, a fourth-year biological sciences major who helped found Best Buddies on campus in 2018. \u201cIt\u2019s not only something you use with people with disabilities, but whenever you encounter someone with any kind of difference, whether it\u2019s a racial background or cultural.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the social event on Friday, about 20 CSUF students met their buddies, who ranged in age from 18 to 22 and are part of a special transition program at Fullerton\u2019s La Sierra High School that helps students with disabilities find jobs and move onto community college once they graduate from high school.<\/p>\n

Aside from dancing to \u201cCupid Shuffle\u201d and \u201cWe\u2019re All in This Together,\u201d the pairs chatted in the courtyard, had a scavenger hunt in a Mihaylo Hall classroom and played bingo.<\/p>\n

The pairs are matched through a survey about the interests and hobbies of the students at La Sierra \u2014 which is just across the street from the university on State College Boulevard \u2014 as well as those of the CSUF students who volunteer for Best Buddies, Narvasa said.<\/p>\n

Hannah San Gabriel, a second-year public health major at CSUF, was happy to reunite with Park, who she had been paired with last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally learned so much through Best Buddies,\u201d she said about her time with Park, who is a high-functioning individual with autism. \u201cWe went to socials and went out to Panda Express to get fried rice because that is his favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that we should be inclusive to everybody,\u201d she said. \u201cI live with someone with autism, a family member. So after that I wanted to be more involved in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was important to me that people could see that interacting with students with disabilities isn\u2019t intimidating,\u201d said Narvasa, who had several friends with autism growing up. \u201cIt\u2019s something anyone can do. A lot of our students have never had a one-on-one genuine interaction with a person with a disability before.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this is a way to get exposed to that.\u201d<\/p>\nRead the full article<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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