Name: 障がい者のための限界のない生活! (Life Without Limits for People with Disabilities!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:50:52.000Z
Duration: 10 min 17 s
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He’s going to go very slow. <<laughter>>

(Martha) Raising a child with a disability is challenging.

It’s kind of a lonely life  when you have a disability

cause you’re not at liberty to go out  and find your own experiences.

(Victoria) I was one of those kids that was like deathly afraid at first.

But, I mean, all in all it was  probably one of the best experiences

<<whistle blow>> That was a genuine smile!

The dolphin trip when I was a little kid, that was one of my highlights of my life so far.

<<background voices>> Oh, yeah alright!   <<clapping>>

<<whistle blows>>  Good boy!  <<cheering>>

It was fun, just being able to bond with  some of the people that I know now…

and um... pretty much my whole life.   That’s actually how we met was on the dolphin trip.

And I pretty much look at them like they’re my brothers.

Just all the trips that I’ve been on with UCP has been a blessing to me

because I know that I have friends that I could go hang out with, spend time, and have fun with.

(Martha) UCP brings experiences into our lives that

I don’t know, like a passage into the rest of the world  that everyone else gets to experience.

I started working with people with disabilities 36 years ago.

I went to work starting programs without any  sort of government funding, I was told it couldn’t be done.

♪♪ upbeat 'rock' guitar and bongo ♪♪

I have seen a lot of people come out of the system –

the developmental center system, the State hospital system.

A lot of what happens is these folks go into the community and the intent is

'Get people out into the community' and they’re just gonna move on and live their life...

and that ends up not being the case. They end up living incredibly isolated lives.

We come around and we change that isolation

and we turn the isolation into  a feeling of community with other people.

We give them a sense of belonging to a group of friends.

And just simple things like going bowling or the other weekend we went

on Lake Cachuma and the kids got to drive a boat, and many of them

had never done that, and that’s what’s so important is that something

that might be very simple or something  that you wouldn’t think twice about...

these people don’t have the opportunity.

(Brian) It’s always special and it turns into something special.

There’s always something you don’t expect, that makes these trips really enjoyable.

You might leave and go on your trip as friends,  but I always feel that when I come back,

I feel like... more like, an extended family.  Huh...

Power Soccer is the first sport ever that folks  who use Electric wheelchairs can participate in.

And we have a travelling power soccer team

that travels throughout the state.   So for them to finally be able

to play a sport and compete... the enthusiasm level is off the charts

(Marty) Kyle Colton, who has been in all of our programs,

he’s one of the top power soccer players  probably in the country today.

I think this is my sixth year doing it,  seventh year, and I’ve grown as an athlete.

Almost should be at the level where I’m gonna try out for Team USA.

(Dylan) That guy’s amazing to me. He’s determined

and he kind of decided what  he wanted to do with power soccer

and he’s serious about it. And he trains, he works out.

(Kyle) It’s just really good  to have Dylan just to mentor me

You know he doesn’t have the best circumstances,  but he doesn’t let it stop him.

And he sees it as a challenge that he’s going to overcome.

(Kyle) People are just so amazed at what I can do,

and that’s a good feeling for me, cause

UCP has taught me that I can do it  and nobody can stop me.

the person probably who inspired me  more than anybody I ever worked with.

Here’s a guy born with Cerebral Palsy.  He's...

at age nine or ten they found out he had cancer  and he had to have one leg removed.

Living in an institutional setting  with four or five people in a room.

We got him out of the institutional setting.   We got him into his own apartment.

We found work for him so he  could be paid for what he was doing.

We connected him with people with like interests. He drew people to him.

And the friendships that were created through our programs,

<<♪♪ piano >>  In order to keep these programs going,

since we don’t get any government funding at all,

we need private donations.   We need individuals to believe in what we’re doing,

so that we can continue to do  what we are doing and expand it.

You know, I think of things like the six-week course with the surrogate program.