{"id":177214,"date":"2024-02-01T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/?p=177214"},"modified":"2024-02-01T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:21:17","slug":"cape-elizabeth-hosting-best-buddies-inclusion-skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/maine\/cape-elizabeth-hosting-best-buddies-inclusion-skate","title":{"rendered":"Cape Elizabeth hosting Best Buddies Inclusion Skate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;177217&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;177216&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;177215&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Cape Elizabeth\u2019s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will host a Best Buddies Inclusion Skate on Feb. 3 to increase access to ice skating and winter activities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Committee member Monica Malcomson, a teacher at Brown Elementary School in South Portland, came up with the idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cPart of (the committee\u2019s) charge is to host yearly events that create a sense of belonging,\u201d Malcomson told The Forecaster. \u201cI thought, \u2018How do we create these communal opportunities around partnerships and unification and collaboration and make sure we\u2019re really utilizing all the strengths of our community organizations in Cape Elizabeth and South Portland?&#8217;\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Malcomson is an adviser to her school\u2019s chapter of Best Buddies, an organization that pairs up people with and without disabilities, and runs an afterschool program, Brown School Skates. She\u2019s also on the board of the Cape Community Arena Group, which operates the outdoor ice rink at Gull Crest.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration was natural, she said. Each of the organizations are involved in next week\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis was kind of her brainchild of a project, which is pretty awesome,\u201d said Shay Wilcox, senior program manager at Best Buddies Maine. \u201cI know Monica and she is a passionate ice skater and it\u2019s something she\u2019s been doing for a very long time. So, when she came to me and said, \u2018This is something I want to do, will Best Buddies Maine support this,\u2019 there was no question in my mind. We were going to support it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2024\/01\/25\/cape-elizabeth-hosting-best-buddies-inclusion-skate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about this story here<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmtw.com\/article\/helping-make-best-buddies-people-disabilities-maine\/45531062\" class=\"hb-button hb-default hb-default-button no-three-d\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"-webkit-border-radius: 2px;-moz-border-radius: 2px;border-radius: 2px;\"><i class=\"icon-chevron-right\"><\/i>Watch the rest<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore Malcomson&#8217;s impact leading Best Buddies, directing skates program, and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2080,"featured_media":177217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"me-single-post.php","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1601],"tags":[4531],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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