JOHN WORKS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TRAINING
By SUSAN HELLER ANDERSON
Published: March 16, 1990
LEAD: For two years JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. has worked on a program to
provide additional training for people working with the handicapped.
Together with administrators at the City University of New York and
health professionals, he helped develop Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities Studies, which started last month at the
College of Staten Island.
For two years JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. has worked on a program to provide
additional training for people working with the handicapped. Together
with administrators at the City University of New York and health
professionals, he helped develop Mental Retardation and Developmental
Disabilities Studies, which started last month at the College of Staten
Island. The program has 125 students, most of whom are recreation and
home-care aides and want to advance in their careers.
Yesterday, 10 were chosen as Kennedy Fellows. They will receive $500 a
semester and have health professionals as mentors while they are in
school. Mr. Kennedy is the chairman of the associate trustees of the
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, begun by his grandparents to aid
disabled people. It provides the scholarship money, and it paid
$100,000 for program development.
Mr. Kennedy, who is 29 years old and an assistant district attorney in
Manhattan, said he would work to expand the program to other CUNY
campuses.