UCA Department of Occupational Therapy students Aly Hill and Markii Landry recently organized a local chapter of “Best Buddies” as part of their leadership requirements as LEND trainees.
Best Buddies® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Hill has been instrumental in bringing the organization to UCA and the organization just received RSO approval last month.
Hill traveled to the Best Buddies national conference this summer and the director was very impressed. “Aly has been so wonderful and I’m ridiculously impressed with the UCA OT Department.”