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Fort Dupont, Idaho IceWorld receive Prudential awards to enhance, build programs


Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena in


Washington, D.C., and Idaho IceWorld, City of Boise Parks & Recreation Depart- ment are this year’s recipients of the Pruden- tial Skating Fund awards. T e Prudential Skating Fund’s mission


is to provide fi nancial support to under- served groups and communities within the sport of fi gure skating. Last year Brooklyn Ice in New York and Paramount Iceland in California were the inaugural Prudential Skating Fund recipients. Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena re-


ceived Prudential’s $10,000 Enrichment award for its proposal to further engage its competitive beginning and advanced skat- ers, as well as enhance opportunities for its Learn-to-Skate and Kids on Ice P.L.U.S. participants. More than 1,250 D.C.-area youth skat-


ed in the various programs at the Fort Du- pont Ice Arena this year, with the majority of these children considered disadvantaged. Fort Dupont works closely with area schools — charging no admission fee — to off er a fi tness-oriented activity and lifestyle. Ty Newberry, executive director and


general manager of the Friends of Fort Du- pont Ice Arena, said the award from Pruden- tial will allow the facility to better serve area children who would otherwise not be able to aff ord to learn how to skate. “We are extremely excited and grateful


to have received the award,” Newberry said. “T is will allow us to make a deeper impact with our programs. We are a nonprofi t that has been around for almost 20 years and have worked hard to make a positive impact on the kids in the Washington, D.C., area, especially in the Ward 7 and Ward 8 com- munities. We will continue to work hard to put smiling faces on the ice.” Idaho IceWorld, City of Boise Parks &


Recreation Department, received Pruden- tial’s $15,000 Building Block award. Idaho IceWorld, the only ice arena in the greater Boise area, will use the award to off er skating opportunities to people with disabilities and eventually start a therapeutic skating pro- gram within its Basic Skills program. Idaho IceWorld will partner with Boi-


se’s Parks & Recreation’s adaptive recreation program called AdVenture in this mission. T e Prudential award will 1) provide train- ing for instructors,


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2) enable the purchase of special adaptive equipment such as ice sleds, grip sticks, portable ramps and helmets; and 3) provide scholarships for those who experience hard- ship within the community. For Jackie Woodland, hockey/ice skat-


ing recreation specialist at Idaho IceWorld, receiving the Prudential Skating Fund award means a lot on a personal level. Woodland served as the fi gure skating


venue director for the 2009 Special Olym- pics World Winter Games when it was in Idaho. She discovered at that time that there was nothing in place statewide that off ered those specially challenged or disabled ath- letes the opportunity and platform to learn to skate.


When she got hired last April to direct


the learn-to-skate program at Idaho Ice- World, Woodland started to research ways to include this underserved group. “In the position I’m in now, I see we do


have a few individuals with disabilities who have been mainstreamed into our learn-to- skate program,” Woodland said. “It works for some, but some struggle with it. T at’s when I said we have to get a program going and I pursued the Prudential Skating Fund award. “When I attached the award applica-


tion to an email and prepared to send it off , I said a big prayer and just pressed send and I broke into tears. I didn’t realize what an emotional experience that whole application process was and what it meant.” T e initial plan for the program is to


off er a minimum of two “Try Learn to Skate for Free” events. “With interest generated from those


events and other marketing avenues, we anticipate enrolling at least 20 people with


physical and/or intellectual disabilities in our Learn to Skate T erapeutic Skating Program,” Woodland said. “I think this pro- gram will fi ll a huge void.” Newberry and Woodland received their


awards from Prudential during last month’s 2015 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Cham- pionships in Greensboro, North Carolina.


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