Officials hope that the Academy for Neurodiversity —which provides housing, education, health care, and job training for in one campus — will become a national model.
Stephen Sweeney, former president of the New Jersey Senate, speaks at the launch event of the Academy for Neurodiversity at Rowan College of South Jersey on Wednesday.Rowan College of South Jersey opened this week a program where people with intellectual and development disabilities of all ages can get support for their housing, education and medical needs all at once, creating a one-stop care model that officials hope will become a national model.
Having one place where services are concentrated is especially important for disabled adults, Rowan College President Frederick Keating said.. The new program aims to assist in that transition by connecting services for different phases of life in one centralized place.for children, Keating said. Traditionally, parents in South Jersey had to take their child to either Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia or Nemours in Delaware.
A partnership with Gloucester and Cumberland counties is enabling the academy to provide human services support such as job training and connecting families to area school districts to assist with. Other partners include the community college and Rowan University for those seeking higher education. Rowan’s two medical schools are also involved to help with health care.
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