SubmittedNovember 17, 2014

Despite their own disabilities, participants of the Horizons Enrichment Center, a program sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University,College of Health and Human Services,Department of Human Environmental Studies, reach out to area nursing homes in an effort to make the Thanksgiving season a little brighter for the residents and their families...

Cindy Schmoll
Left to right; Tandra Kiplinger, Salena Lanza, Jennifer Mason and Christian Weakley, support staff/teacher Xavier Bland.
Left to right; Tandra Kiplinger, Salena Lanza, Jennifer Mason and Christian Weakley, support staff/teacher Xavier Bland.

Despite their own disabilities, participants of the Horizons Enrichment Center, a program sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University,College of Health and Human Services,Department of Human Environmental Studies, reach out to area nursing homes in an effort to make the Thanksgiving season a little brighter for the residents and their families.

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This year the new Life Care Center was chosen to recieve the Pumpkin Lanterns that were hand made by participants of Horizons.

Horizons Enrichment is a day program for adults with developmental and mental disabilities located at 2100 Themis in Cape Girardeau.

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