P’ville Safety Summit to Address Special Needs Students This Week
The Village of Pleasantville and the Pleasantville Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) will host a Safety Summit this Wednesday at 7 p.m. to address risks for individuals with special needs.
Village Trustee Colleen Griffin Wagner announced the meeting at the Sept. 21 village board meeting.
“The purpose of the summit is to talk about developmentally disabled individuals, and our first responders and how we can take the VIP program, which is an extremely effective program here in Pleasantville for ensuring the safety and well-being of our special needs kids, and maybe making it county or statewide,” Wagner said.
The summit, which will be held at Pleasantville Village Hall, will bring together families of developmentally delayed individuals, first responders, educators, service providers and local elected officials to discuss the safety challenges for the developmentally delayed population. The focus of the summit will be on ways to increase training and improve technology and communications to improve the safety of people with developmental disabilities and reduce unnecessary difficulties.
Panelists scheduled to attend the event include state Sen. Terrence Murphy, R-Yorktown); Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, D-(Pleasantville); County Legislator Michael Smith; Westchester Special Prosecutor Fred Green; Westchester ARC Senior Adviser Tom Hughes; Pleasantville Police Chief Richard Love; Mount Pleasant Police Chief Paul Oliva; a Pleasantville Volunteer Ambulance Corps representative; Pleasantville Assistant Fire Chief Asterio Scopino; and Dr. Carolyn McGuffog, the Pleasantville School District’s director of educational services.
The event will be filmed by PCTV to air on the public access station and online for those who are not able to attend.
The forum is open to the general public. Village Hall is located at 80 Wheeler Ave.
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