{"id":9477,"date":"2026-04-01T13:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?page_id=9477"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:44","slug":"no-limits-to-learning-a-summer-program-that-builds-independence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?page_id=9477","title":{"rendered":"No Limits to Learning: A Summer Program That Builds Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Podcast Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step into a summer that could change everything. At the Colorado Center for the Blind, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cocenter.org\/youth-programs\">No Limits to Learning program<\/a>&nbsp;invites blind, deafblind, and low vision students ages 15\u201321 to live, learn, and grow in a fully immersive experience. You\u2019ll stay in real apartments, cook your own meals, travel using public transit, and build independence from morning to night. Days are filled with hands-on training in Braille, technology, orientation and mobility, and independent living skills\u2014taught by blind mentors who\u2019ve been where you are. Beyond the classroom, adventure awaits with rock climbing, whitewater rafting, martial arts, and more. As past student Christopher shares, this program unlocks confidence and proves what\u2019s truly possible. You won\u2019t just learn skills\u2014you\u2019ll discover your strength, your community, and your future. If you\u2019re ready to challenge expectations and gain real independence, this is your moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cocenter.org\/youth-programs\">Youth Programs offered by Colorado Center on the web.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Links of interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/deed\/ssb\/teens\/news.jsp\">The Spectacle Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/deed\/ssb\/teens\/\">Youth Services at SSB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about the services provided at State Services for the Blind, and what they can do for you, contact Shane DeSantis at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:shane.desantis@state.mn.us\">shane.desantis@state.mn.us<\/a>&nbsp;or call Shane at&nbsp;651-385-5205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Full Transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>People Chanting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a C-O-L-o-r-a-d-o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s that spell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colorado!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where are We from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colorado!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are CCB!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(cheers fill the air)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Welcome to Blind Abilities. I&#8217;m Jeff Thompson. Today we&#8217;re excited to have director of Youth programs from Colorado Center for the blind. Tiffany moon. Tiffany, welcome to Blind Abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Thank you for having me. I&#8217;m excited to be here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>And we also have Christopher Morgan. He&#8217;s going to be talking a little bit later. So I&#8217;m excited to have you Christopher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>Thank you for having me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Great. Well, thank you both for taking the time out of your day to be here on Blind Abilities. Tiffany, can you tell our listeners what programs Colorado Center for the blind, CCB, has to offer teens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>For out of state youth, we have our No Limits to Learning summer program. This year we are offering both a six week and a three week program, they do overlap. The dates are June 20th 2nd to July 31st for the sixth week and July 13th to July 31st for the three week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these programs, they are residential programs, so we actually own an apartment complex about a mile from the center. So all the students stay in the apartments with a residential counselor and then come to the school every day to learn, and then head back to the apartments at night. Something unique about our six week program is that with a 350 word essay, you can join us in Austin, Texas. Both staff, are adult program, and several of the summer program students will all be going to the national convention, which is really exciting. It&#8217;s such a unique opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Yes, what a great opportunity. Can you tell us what the day to day experience is like for the students attending these programs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>So day to day experience is really unique in the fact that not only are they getting skills training at the center, but they&#8217;re also getting skills training in the apartments. So each morning they&#8217;ll wake up, they&#8217;ll make their breakfast, They&#8217;ll pack their lunch. Then they&#8217;ll ride on public transit to the center. They will work on travel from the bus loop up to the center every day. And then they come in for learning. And the day to day learning is Braille technology, orientation and mobility and what we call home management, which most people know as independent living skills, all in the center, in addition to some enrichment classes that we&#8217;re going to sprinkle in, like home maintenance, where they&#8217;ll learn how to use tools and sort of the ins and outs of, you know, how piping and plumbing work. We&#8217;ll also have some art classes making tactile art, which is fantastic. In addition to all of that, we will have challenge recreation activities interspersed throughout the time as well. And then once they&#8217;re done with their day at school, again they&#8217;re going to travel back to the bus loop. They&#8217;re going to ride on that public transportation bus back to the apartments. And once they&#8217;re at the apartments, they&#8217;re going to learn how to meal plan, budget, cook dinners, how to properly sweep and mop and clean countertops, how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how often you should do laundry, all of those independent living skills that help a blind person be able to live a life on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Wow, that&#8217;s well-rounded. I mean, you&#8217;re talking sunrise to sunset there. Tiffany, there&#8217;s a lot of summer programs out there. What makes CCB, what makes your programs different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, first off, we are blind people teaching blind people how to live independently and confidently. That&#8217;s the main thing that separates us from a lot of other centers. In addition to that, we are a structured discovery center, so we use nonvisual training techniques, which is incredibly important when you&#8217;re learning to navigate the world as a blind person. Because even if you do have some residual vision, it is bound to fail you. And so it&#8217;s good to learn those non-visual skills, to have them to trust in for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mhm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as other things that make us different, we offer some really awesome challenge recreation. So I&#8217;ll just start to give you a list of what we have lined up for this year. We have whitewater rafting, we have a ropes course and paddle boarding day. Both of those things are going to be up in Breckenridge, Colorado. We&#8217;re going to do outdoor rock climbing in Golden, Colorado. We are going to do a fishing clinic out of Chatfield. We are also going to offer several martial arts classes. We&#8217;re going to go to the planetarium, and we&#8217;re also going to rent a pool for several hours for a private pool party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oh, wow. That&#8217;s quite a list right there. Colorado seems to have a lot to offer people with their unique geography and resources. That&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Absolutely. It&#8217;s really a great environment to do a lot of this challenge recreation and truly build that confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Tiffany, who should consider applying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Students ages 15 to 21 is who we accept into our program. What we&#8217;re really looking for is students who are looking to go into college or looking for skills to begin a career path. We want you to come seeking independence. We do ask that with that independence, you are able to do things independently, meaning take your own medications, self-grooming, things like that. And as long as you&#8217;re hungry to learn and excited about adventure, we would love to have you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well that&#8217;s great. Christopher, I&#8217;m going to kick this one to you. As someone who has attended CCB&#8217;s No Limits Learning Summer Program, looking back, can you share with us what you walked away with at the end of that summer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>For me, attending this program was a huge, huge deal for me because before, I mean, I&#8217;d never been away from home, much less 1200 miles away. I&#8217;m from Atlanta, Georgia, so just a different environment, you know, the elevation. And just also, like I said, the physical distance from home. And for that amount of time, it was a seven week program when I came and I feel like I really walked away with a much better appreciation for independence and the importance of it. I walked away knowing that I was capable to be more independent than I had ever known. Because when you&#8217;re in a situation where you&#8217;re at home, you have a lot of people doing things for you. You have a lot of people that will do things because they don&#8217;t think you can, but you walk away with that understanding that you can do more. But then also, I walked away with the hunger to learn more. And that is the main reason that I decided to come back for ITP, because now I&#8217;m being able to learn more and to do more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Can you tell us what ITP is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>It&#8217;s the Independence Training Program. Because of my experience in the summer program, I have decided to come back to Colorado. I graduated high school in December and came back here. I&#8217;ll be here until July and then I&#8217;ll go to college after that, because I want to gain the skills and the confidence that I&#8217;ll need in college, and it&#8217;ll better help me to excel in college as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oh that&#8217;s awesome. That&#8217;s really good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>ITP is our adult program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Okay. Well, Christopher, congratulations on your graduation and all the best to you on your next adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>Thank you so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>I got another question for you Christopher, what advice do you have for a teen, A student, who is considering taking this leap?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, quite honestly, the biggest thing is you&#8217;re going to one day be living on your own. That&#8217;s the goal for everyone. You&#8217;re going to one day be living on your own. But, you have to know how to perform these tasks so that you live the most successful and fulfilling life as you can. This world is created for, not for us, really. So being able to come here and practice those skills day in and day out. Going back to the apartments, practicing those skills, it gives you a much better idea of what life as a blind person is going to be like, not only in the corporate workplace, but also just your home life. And it&#8217;ll just make you a lot more equipped to take on anything that life throws at you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Yeah. And I suppose with all the other students there, you get to communicate with them too and find out what&#8217;s working for them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>Absolutely. Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>That sounds really great. It really does. Tiffany. It must be great to be able to see students come through the program and see him begin, and then grow as they elevate, as they elevate their life through the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Absolutely. I always say that students come in as a caterpillar and they walk out a butterfly, and I love seeing that transformation every time it happens. It is something that never gets old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Well that&#8217;s great. Christopher, thanks for jumping in here. Tiffany. How can someone find out more about Colorado Center for the blind and the summer programs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>So you can email me. My email address is T as in Tango, M o o M o o n, so tMoon@CoCenter.org. You can also call me to ask any questions. My phone number is (303)&nbsp;778-1130, extension 256. And you can also visit our website, which is Cocenter.org, and go to the youth section. And it tells you all of the activities we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>If people are interested in this summer, Wind is a registration deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Deadline is April 17th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Alright, we&#8217;ll be sure to get this out right away. This is a great opportunity because some states don&#8217;t have the opportunity for them to gain such skills in such a unique program. You know, whether you want to do the three week or six week program, plus being able to attend the National Federation of the Blind Conference, what an opportunity. I&#8217;ve been to quite a few of those, and you get to meet people from across the United States, across the world really, and really gained some great experience and confidence in yourself. So thank you for coming on here and sharing with us what you guys have to offer teens, and you&#8217;re doing a great job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Absolutely. The best part about it is that if you go through your vocational rehabilitation counselor, then this program is paid for through them. So it is no cost to the student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oh yeah. So if anyone&#8217;s interested, just contact your VR, your State Services for the Blind and see what they can do for you and tell them about the programs that CCB is offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Absolutely. And they can have their counselor reach out to me as well if they have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:&nbsp;<\/strong>All right. Well, Christopher, thank you for joining us. And Tiffany, thank you as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christopher:&nbsp;<\/strong>Sure. Thank you for having me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tiffany:&nbsp;<\/strong>Thank you for having us. I hope you have a wonderful day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People Chanting:<strong>&nbsp;1:&nbsp;<\/strong>We are CCB!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(people cheer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>{Music}<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff:<\/strong>&nbsp;To find out more about all the programs at State Services for the Blind, contact Shane.DeSantis@State.Mn.us&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s Shane dot d-e-s-a-n-t-i-s at state.mn .us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to contact your State Services for the Blind, your Voc Rehab and find out what they can do for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live, work, read, succeed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Music]&nbsp;&nbsp;[<\/strong>Transition noise]&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we share-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Through each other\u2019s eyes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Multiple voices overlapping, in unison, to form a single sentence]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026We can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations, and the realities of Blind Abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast Summary: Step into a summer that could change everything. At the Colorado Center for the Blind, the&nbsp;No Limits to Learning program&nbsp;invites blind, deafblind, and low vision students ages 15\u201321 to live, learn, and grow in a fully immersive experience. 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