Greetings from St. Pete's

I am excited to post my very first blog. Anything for KIT! I am currently in my hotel room in St. Petersburg, Florida (yay wireless!) I am here facilitating a two-day training of trainers for individuals from St. Petersburg, Naples, Tampa, and Clearwater City Departments of Parks and Therapeutic Recreation. I have enjoyed hearing their unique experiences with staff training on inclusion. They are so grateful to have a standardized curriculum to use to train summer camp and recreation staff throughout the year and cannot wait to get out there and empower their staff to include all kids. I am certainly loving the Florida sunshine and 80 degree weather...until next time - Alissa

The Party's at Our House!

This blog is intended to be about KIT's travels around the country providing training on inclusion to early childhood and out-of-school time programs. And, believe me, there will be a lot of that coming up. In the next month or so the KIT team of trainers will be hitting the road for northern California, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, Iowa, Kansas and New York. Keep watching the blog for all the details!

Right now, though, we'd like to celebrate the coming together of over 200 people for KIT's 4th Annual National Conference on Inclusion. This April 2-4th, 2008 everyone came to our house (well, the Mission Valley Marriott to be exact) for three days of learning about inclusion, sharing ideas and strategies and networking with colleagues from around the country. Our keynote presentation was Dan Habib, award-winning filmmaker of the new documentary Including Samuel.

Thanks to everyone who presented, contributed and attended for an another amazing journey! If you weren't there please try to join us next year and see what all the excitement is about.