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By Bonnie Hobbs

The Connection

Although there have been four re-cent incidents of teen suicides inFairfax County, the Police Depart-

ment has planned to offer Suicide Aware-ness and Intervention Training for its of-ficers since October 2013.

So police and others who work withyouth recently took a two-day course atthe Criminal Justice Academy inChantilly to learn how they can help pre-vent people at immediate risk of suicidefrom following through.

“This is a collaboration between schoolsocial workers, counselors, [police]School Resource Officers [SRO] andschool security,” said police Lt. ChristianQuinn, school liaison commander. “SROsare the liaison between the Police Depart-ment and the school system.”

“This training will give the officerssome perspective and help them estab-lish relationships with these other groupsbecause they see the kids first,” he con-tinued. “The goal is to spot kids in crisisand provide them with meaningful in-tervention before they make tragic

choices.”

THE WORKSHOP focused on small-groupdiscussions and skills that could help themsave lives. Officers learned how to recog-nize a call for help, reach out and offer sup-port and connect people with the particu-lar resources they need.

“This is the means to identify kids strug-gling and maybe not voicing it,” explainedQuinn. “Not everybody who’s depressedcommits suicide, and not everybody who’ssuicidal expresses this feeling. So we try tosee what subtle behaviors they do in ad-vance so we can provide proactive mea-sures.”

For example, it helps if police, social work-ers or counselors can receive a peer refer-ral because of something disturbing or un-settling that a teen posted on social media.Then, said Quinn, “We can put in a safetyplan and try some steps to help [that teen].”

SROs get to know students and theirfriends personally. So often, said Quinn,“The kids will go to the SRO and say, ‘I’mconcerned about So and So.’ If it preventseven one suicide, it’s worth the effort.”

He said teens often exhibit some telltalebehavior signaling they’re having some type

of problems. Some of the warning signs tolook for are behavioral changes; threaten-ing messages; and a change in grades,friends and/or activities outside of school.

That’s why, said Quinn, “Parental involve-ment is paramount. If parents see changesin their kids, they can bring it to the atten-tion of the SRO. They and the school socialworkers and counselors are the first net toprovide safety and catch something. Thenthere can be some intervention and kids canget help, such as a referral for long-termcare.”

ABOUT 30 PEOPLE signed up for the mid-March class at the Criminal Justice Acad-emy. They were evenly divided betweenSROs, school security, and school socialworkers, clinicians and counselors.

Master trainers from the ASIST (AppliedSuicide Intervention Skills Training) pro-gram – offered by a company calledLivingWorks – provided the instruction. Alsosponsoring the course was the Virginia De-partment of Criminal Justice Services; it wasfunded by a grant.

According to ASIST, as much as 6 percentof the population has serious thoughts ofsuicide. In Fairfax County, there were 94

‘Goal Is to Spot Kids in Crisis’

Police Lt. Christian Quinn, schoolliaison commander, discussesthe new suicide awareness andintervention training.

suicides in 2012 and 95 in 2013. So farthis year, there have been 19 – and 15 ofthem were teenagers.

“Suicidal persons find all manner ofmeans to accomplish the act,” said Quinn.“They don’t choose one way over theother. We take the issue very seriously,and we know this training is critical sothe folks on the front line will have abetter chance to do something produc-tive to keep kids safe.”

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The Fairfax-Falls ChurchCommunity ServicesBoard and AlexandriaNeighborhood Health

Services, Inc. celebrated the inte-gration of primary and behaviorhealth care at the Gartlan Centerat the clinic’s official grand open-ing on March 27.

Visitors were able to tour theclinic, which is a collaboration ofCSB and ANHSI. Clients of CSB arenow able to receive primary andbehavioral health care treatmentat the same place.

“It may be just a little tiny spacewith two exam rooms, but this re-ally is groundbreaking and it’simportant, and it’s something tocelebrate,” said Sharon Bulova,chairman of the Fairfax CountyBoard of Supervisors.

On average, people with a seri-ous mental illness die 25 years

earlier than the rest of the popu-lation, a 2006 study conducted bythe National Association of StateMental Health Program Directorsfound.

“Many people who have behav-ior health needs also have diffi-culty with accessing primaryhealth care, and this clinic is onevery obvious way to increase thataccess,” Bulova said.

According to Bulova, the grandopening of the clinic at the GartlanCenter is timely as the Board ofSupervisors recently approved amotion that reinforced FairfaxCounty’s support for Medicaid ex-pansion.

“Fairfax County strongly sup-ports expanding Medicaid and al-

lowing more people to get cover-age,” Bulova said.

Bulova said people should al-ways be treated holistically, withtheir primary health care needs inmind.

“Adding primary health servicesto this busy Gartlan Center sitebrings a whole health focus whichis so important to the successfuloutcomes for people in all facetsof their life,” Bulova said.

ANHSI, a non-profit health careprovider, provides primary careservices at the Gartlan Center onTuesdays and Fridays, providing aprimary care physician, a medicalassistant, and an enrollment spe-cialist.

“The integration of primary and

behavioral health care is a strate-gic priority across the country, notjust here in Fairfax County,” saidPat Harrison, deputy county ex-ecutive for human services.

Trouble navigating the healthcare system, health literacy, socio-economic status, transportationand insurance problems areamong the reasons those with se-rious mental illness face disparityin life expectancy.

“Providing health care servicesto people with mental illness, sub-stance use disorder, and intellec-tual disabilities is truly a milestonefor the human services system,”Harrison said.

The new clinic at the GartlanCenter will be a one-stop place

where patients can receive a widerange of services.

“We know that when people getthese needs addressed together,people have better health out-comes, and they live longer andtheir care becomes more holistic,”Harrison said.

According to Harrison, the im-proved access to health care is anatural addition to the care pro-vided at the Gartlan Center.

“This truly is a collaborativepartnership between two agen-cies,” Harrison said.

The partnership has occurredwithout a grant, which is some-what uncommon.

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director of ANHSI, said the partnershipwith the Fairfax-Falls Church CSB alignswith ANHSI’s mission and goals.

“It was a really natural transition to us tobe able to see the benefit and recognize thevalue of moving a primary medical teaminto a community services board environ-ment where your patient population is com-fortable and where we know from all kindsof national data where they are much morelikely to access those services and continuein those services once they access them,”Wooten said.

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Grand OpeningFrom Page 3 whom are visiting ANHSI locations in

Fairfax County.Joan Gartlan, the daughter of the late

state Sen. Joe Gartlan and mental healthadvocate Fredona Gartlan, also spoke at thegrand opening. “Our parents were wonder-ful and very smart people who recognizedmany decades ago the unmeant needs ofthose with mental illness, intellectual dis-abilities and substance use disorders,”Gartlan said. Gartlan said in the 1970s,when her parents began their involvementin mental health advocacy,deinstitutionalization was the major issueof the time. “We’ve come a long way sincethen and this morning’s grand opening ofthe health center is a great example of that,”Gartlan said.

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B&B Music Lessons is cel-ebrating its ninth anniver-sary this March and own-

ers Brad Clements and BhagwanKhalsa are pleased with theprogress they’ve made since start-ing the service. For families inNorthern Virginia, Washington,D.C. and Maryland, the serviceprovides lessons for a whole rangeof instruments, including piano,woodwinds and brass, strings, anddrums. The school currently has370 students, mostly age five to15. The 65 skilled teachers cometo the homes of the students theyinstruct.

Clifton resident Shaun Tenan,one of B&B’s guitar teachers, saysthat for him, the real pleasure ofteaching is seeing students takewhat he has to give them and useit to make progress musically.Tenan has lived in Northern Vir-ginia since 1993 and been playingmusic since the age of nine. Lo-cally, he played shows at the GreenTurtle and occasionally fills in withlocal 80s cover rock group “HairBand,” while he works to form hisown group. Tenan left his careerin private security to take upteaching music full time.

Oak Hill piano teacher KatiaPotapov studied piano privatelythroughout her youth spent in atown just north of New York City.She has been playing for over 20years, favoring classical, contem-porary, and ragtime genres. Al-though she does not perform inpublic concerts, she finds thatplaying piano for herself andteaching it to others is a creativerespite from a daytime career asproduction manager of a digitalevent company. Says Potapov, “It’sinspiring to see students who arefrustrated in the beginning be-cause of slow progress or confu-

sion turn a corner and make realstrides as they progress in theirmusical studies. After that, thesky’s the limit!”

Dedication and enthusiasm iswhat Clements and Khalsa arelooking for in their teachers. Theymeet personally with each pro-spective teacher – something thatthe national music lesson servicescannot do – and they make surethat their teachers can work wellwith children.

B&B sends out an array of sup-portive materials to students, in-cluding music lesson planners andlesson follow-up. B&B Music own-ers are performing artists as wellas educators. Trumpeter BradClements has 25 years of experi-ence playing in a variety of genres,including 14 years touring withChuck Brown. He has performedwith Prince, George Duke, EricBenet, Lalah Hathaway and Ledisi.

Bassist Bhagwan Khalsa prima-rily plays jazz. He has toured theglobe with the Eric Byrd Trio andrecorded on all of their albums,helping to shape their distinctivesound. He has performed withother world-class musicians suchas saxophonists Sonny Fortune,Eric Alexander and Gary Thomas,and with guitar legend Mike Stern.

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Opinion

By Sharon Bulova

Chairman, Fairfax County

Board of Supervisors

As the Virginia General Assembly con-tinues to discuss the expansion ofMedicaid, the benefits and conse-quences of doing so have received a

great deal of attention. Debates rage in themedia, among businesses and around thekitchen tables of ordinary Virginians through-out the state. At our board meeting of March25 my colleagues and I reiterated, in a bi-par-tisan vote, our strong support for Medicaidexpansion in Virginia, and here’s why:

First and foremost, Virginians havealready paid for most of Medicaidexpansion through our federal taxdollars. Through the year 2022, Vir-ginians will pay $29.7 billion in AffordableCare Act related taxes and fees to the federalgovernment. The federal government willcover almost all of the cost for Medicaid ex-pansion with tax dollars collected from thestates, including Virginia. If Medicaid is ex-panded in Virginia, the federal government willpay 100 percent of the cost through 2016, de-creasing incrementally to 90 percent in 2020and subsequent years. If Medicaid is not ex-

panded in Virginia, we willstill pay those same taxesbut will see no correspond-ing benefit to our unin-sured population — rather,our tax dollars will be usedto pay for uninsured indi-viduals in other states.

Second, the economicbenefits of expanding Med-

icaid, aside from the obvious return of taxpayerdollars to our state, far outweigh the costs. Toput it plainly, not addressing affordable healthcare coverage in Virginia costs Virginia money.Employed Virginians with insurance already

subsidize care provided for unin-sured Virginians needing urgenttreatment when they show up inemergency rooms. These visits result

in higher premiums for employed Virginiansas well as increased provider costs. Medicaidexpansion would increase less expensive pre-ventative care thus reducing more expensiveemergency care. This would not only drivedown costs but could also improve the overallhealth of Virginia residents.

A largely unseen cost of our current situa-tion is the existing financial burden on county-funded safety net providers, including non-

profit organizations that assist lower incomeresidents. The Fairfax-Falls Church CommunityServices Board estimates that the percentageof clients receiving substance abuse treatmentor mental health services who are covered byMedicaid will rise from 38 percent to 50 per-cent under the proposed expansion, freeing upCounty funding for other critical needs.

Lastly, Medicaid expansion provides a tre-mendous opportunity to do more to help ourmost vulnerable residents. In Fairfax Countyalone, up to 30,000 low-income residentswould become eligible for Medicaid throughexpansion, including: individuals earning lessthan $15,302 per year; families earning lessthan $31,155 per year; low-income childrenwho lose Medicaid when they turn 19; and,adults with disabilities not eligible for Supple-mental Security Income or Social Security Dis-ability Insurance. Under Medicaid expansion,Virginia’s health care delivery system will havethe resources needed to provide quality ser-vices to those in need.

The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerceand Fairfax County’s local hospitals recognizethese facts, and have strongly endorsed Med-icaid expansion. Let’s keep Virginia’s tax dol-lars in Virginia and increase access for unin-sured Virginians at the same time.

Why I Support Medicaid Expansion

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To the Board of Supervisors:

The following open letter to the FairfaxCounty Board of Supervisors concernshousing and human services budget rec-ommendations from the Fairfax CountyBudget Advocacy Coalition for Housingand Human Services.

nificant amounts of private capi-tal to provide a return on thecounty’s investment. These invest-ments help us maintain a diverse,caring community that providesaccess to opportunities for all.

The guiding principles that in-formed our decisions are as fol-lows:

❖ No one recommendationtakes priority over the others;

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To the Editor:Supporting the public schools is

Fairfax County’s number one pri-ority. Proof of that lies in the factthat over 50 percent of thecounty’s budget supports schoolprograms. This large expense hasgenerated considerable debateamong county taxpayers over theyears. However, this year the dis-cussion has become toxic and per-sonal. I went to the Lee Districtbudget hearing on Wednesdayevening, the 26th, to hear present-ers from Fairfax County andFairfax County Public Schools ex-plain their respective proposedbudgets. Although the financialpicture has improved, the countyis still not free of the impacts ofthe economic downturn at the end

of the last decade. Two issuesdominated the audience discus-sion: the possible increase in realestate taxes and the request by theschool board for a funding in-crease over last year’s budget.

One of the very worst publicmeetings I’ve attended! Two older,retired persons in the audienceworried about the impact of in-creased home assessments and taxrates; audience members repre-senting the schools were belliger-ent and insulting to the point ofbullying. “My kids deserve the bestschools, so quit your whining andpay,” was the gist of their attack.The school board member repre-senting Lee District rolled her eyes,made faces, and played with heriPad during the County’s budget

Toxic Debate on School Budgetpresentation and the countysupervisor’s subsequent responsesto questions. It is clear that someparents and school board mem-bers are passionate about theschools. I understand that. Butthere needs to be some minimumlevel of decency and respectfulnessduring this debate. Those who cryout, “Fully fund Fairfax CountySchools,” need to stop and think.Over 70 percent of the taxpayersin Fairfax do not have kids incounty schools. You are asking usto pay for your child’s educationat the expense of other importantservices. Social workers in themental health field, for example,are today handling caseloads of 50clients or more. This is almostdouble the recommended norm.

Clients must wait up to threemonths for an intake interviewand up to six weeks after that fortreatment. These are some of thetrade-offs you are asking taxpay-ers to make. You need to convinceus that the school programs aremore important than taking careof those with disorders of thebrain, law enforcement, fire emer-gencies, the list goes on and on.Insults and threats do not con-vince! It is also not a good examplefor those very children aboutwhom you care. I left the meetingangry at and ashamed of my fel-low citizens...and much less as-sured about the abilities of thosemanaging my county schools.

Terry AtkinsonFairfax

As you consider the proposed FY 2015 countybudget, we urge you to

make additional and needed in-vestments in housing, health andhuman services programs. Theserecommendations were developed

through a collaborative process ofnonprofit housing developers, hu-man service providers, and advo-cacy organizations identifyingcommunity needs. Strategic pub-lic investments in housing andhuman services can leverage sig-

Maintaining a Viable, Diverse CommunityWhile need for housing, childcare, healthcare andother human services have grown, these programshave faced significant cuts over past few years.

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There is a dull roar of talk-ing and laughter emanat-ing from the cafeteria at

Gunston Elementary School, andit is not lunch time.

Instead, the after-school pro-gram is about to get underway andstudents are chattering with eachother as they find a seat at a caf-eteria table. Ms. Ephraim,Gunston’s Guidance Counselor,calls the group to attention andexplains that it is time to startworking on their homework. Vol-unteers and other staff membershand out snacks as the kids startfocusing on their work.

After homework time, studentsbreak out into their self-selectedenrichment activity. The GunstonAfter-School program is in its sec-ond year, thanks to the fundsraised by the Lorton CommunityAction Center as well as the gen-erous support of EnviroSolutions(ESI), who donated $2,500 to sup-port the LEGO®ºRobotics classes.

Additional support isprovided by the Wal-Mart Foundation.

“We believe the pro-gram has a tremendousimpact on our students– particularly those whodon’t otherwise haveaccess to some of theextracurricular activi-ties this programoffers,”ºsaid JoVonRogers, Principal atGunston ElementarySchool.

Rogers offers a con-crete example of how the programbenefits participants.

“One student had a history ofmisbehavior and was sent to theoffice quite frequently. However,after participating in the SportsAdventure component of the Af-ter-School Program last fall, he hasexcelled as a leader – even receiv-ing the “Athletic Leader of theWeek” award – and he has not re-

ceived any discipline referrals tothe office. Now, we can concen-trate on his successes,”ºRogerssaid.

The program is also a hit withstudents as illustrated by theircomments. A participant in theCraft Class commented, “I enjoyedworking in a group with my class-mates. It makes learning morefun” and a student in the Cooking

Class said, “I liked making healthyfood with Mrs. Benton.”

The Gunston After-School pro-gram is offered in the fall and inspring. The 2014 spring sessionoperates for five weeks and wrapsup the first week of April. The pro-gram is offered two afternoonseach week and the children havea safe ride home on aºschool bus.The enrichment activities offeredthis spring include: Dancing with

the Eagles; I-Create; Let’s Learn toCook; Sports Adventure; CraftyCrafts and LEGO/Robotics. TheRobotics is offered at both the be-ginner and advanced levels. Ad-vance LEGO Robotics allows stu-dents to engage in STEM require-ments, in addition to the LEGOconstruction component in the be-ginner program.

“This opportunity would nothave been possiblewithout the generoussupport of ESI,” saidLCAC Executive Direc-tor Linda Patterson.“Students throughoutthe program are learn-ing, having fun, all ina safe, supportive en-vironment. I am grate-ful for such a greatcommunity partner.”

The fall program had90 students and theresponse to the springprogram has been

overwhelming.

LCAC also partners with WilliamHalley Elementary School on asimilar after-school program thatserves more than 130 children. Tolearn more about LCAC visitLortonAction.org or callº703-339-5161.

Andrea Cochrane Tracey is the devel-opment director, Lorton CommunityAction Center.

After-school Program Thrivesat Gunston ElementaryProgramincludes stemcomponents,helps studentslearn in safeenvironment.

Gunston Elementary School students enjoy healthsnacks at a new after-school program.

“We believe the program has atremendous impact on ourstudents – particularly thosewho don’t otherwise have accessto some of the extracurricularactivities this program offers.”

— JoVon Rogers,Principal at Gunston Elementary School

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Lynn Ruiz’s daughter Lydia, whohas Down syndrome, will begraduating from Fairfax CountyPublic Schools this June. Ruiz, a

Springfield resident, had originally plannedfor her daughter to participate in an em-ployment program that helps students withspecial needs transition into adulthood.

The $1.3 million funding increase to theCommunity Services Board budget for thisprogram that is necessary to support com-munity members like Lydia was includedin County Executive Ed Long’s budget pre-sentation on Feb. 25.

However, when Long presented furtherreductions to the Fairfax County Board ofSupervisors on March 18, as the supervi-sors requested, the $1.3 million for day sup-port and employment programs was amongthe possible reductions.

If these reductions are approved, Lydiawill be one of the estimated 74 special edu-cation graduates this year without fundingfor these services.

“I think this is just really, really poor plan-ning to throw at people just a couple monthsbefore graduation,” Ruiz said. “We reallydidn’t see this coming this year.”

Ruiz, who works as the director of com-munity relations at the Arc of Northern Vir-ginia, an organization that advocates forindividuals with special needs and theirfamilies, isn’t sure what she is going to doif these cuts are made.

“She needs to have something productiveto do,” Ruiz said. “My daughter sitting athome means I’m sitting at home.”

She said her daughter is ready for em-ployment, but needs funding for servicesthat provide employment skills and jobtraining. For years, Fairfax County has pro-vided these funds for special educationgraduates, allowing them to enroll in pro-grams that provide transitional life skills.

“Fairfax County realized that’s the mostproductive and the best way to keep thesestudents productive and active in the com-munity. It benefits the whole community,”Ruiz said.

If Ruiz were to pay for a transition ser-vice out of pocket, she said it would costher up to $3,000 a month.

Many of the 74 students, including Lydia,are on the waiting list for Medicaid waiv-ers, which would provide the necessaryfunding for these programs. But Lydia’sbeen on the waiting list for 12 years.

Ruiz, along with numerous other fami-lies of children in Fairfax County, was count-ing on this program.

“This is a huge surprise to many parents.

A lot of parents aren’t even understandinghow exactly this is going to affect them,”Ruiz said.

FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION GRADU-ATES, the transition process can sometimesbe difficult. Without these programs, theyare unable to receive the support they needin the workplace, Ruiz said.

“If there is no support in that workplace,they are going to get fired,” she said.

Special education students exit the pub-lic school system when they turn 22. If theprogram is cut, Ruiz says the momentum

the students have from being in school fornearly two decades will be lost.

“You’ve learned to read, write, count yourmoney; you’ve learned to do all thesethings. You’re all prepared to be an adult,just like those other kids who are going offto college, and suddenly you’re told schoolsover, and there’s no funding out there,” Ruizsaid. “You have nothing in your life, unlessof course you have maybe a mom and dadtake off and do things like an almost home-school situation.”

And often, that type of situation does oc-cur, either by choice or because of a lack of

funding.Because Ruiz is still waiting for Lydia’s

Medicaid waiver, and the funding fromFairfax County for these programs may becut, she may have to quit her job and starther own business, providing her daughterwith an employment opportunity.

“She needs something productive to do. Iwas thinking maybe I’ll go back to my busi-ness I used to do — I was a photographerbefore, and she could be my assistant. Idon’t know,” Ruiz said.

Possible cuts to human services programsare nothing new, but the Arc was just notexpecting them this year.

“There is a cruel irony in seeing this pro-posal put forth as a way to allocate morefunding for the Fairfax County educationalsystem by robbing the most vulnerablegraduates of post-school opportunities,”Rikki Epstein, executive director of the Arcof Northern Virginia, said in a press release.

“Fairfax’s special education students workhard to develop skills that will help themwork and be as independent as possiblepost-graduation. Fairfax County teachers,transition coordinators, and school admin-istrators invest in that potential. To allowthese students to graduate without oppor-tunities for support services in the voca-tional world is a disservice to the work ofall involved and a painful misuse of an in-credible investment and potential,” Epsteinstated.

Now, Lydia will be on yet another wait-ing list, this time for funding for a programthat Ruiz was expecting her daughter tostart after graduation.

IN A LETTER to Kevin Bell, chairman ofthe Fairfax County Human Services Coun-cil, Ken Garnes, chair of the Fairfax-FallsChurch Community Services Board, askedthe council to do as much as possible toconvince the Board of Supervisors to keepthe funding for these employment services.

“Just last month, the Board of Supervi-sors issued a proclamation supporting andcelebrating the inclusion of individuals withintellectual and developmental disabilitiesin our community. We need to show theseJune 2014 special education graduates that,as a county, we mean what we say,” Ruizwrote.

The Arc of Northern Virginia is encour-aging families that will be impacted by thebudget cuts to speak at the public hearingsin front of the Board of Supervisors on April10 at 3 p.m. at the Fairfax County Govern-ment Center.

Cuts Could Impact Special Education GraduatesFamilies will speakagainst proposed bud-get cuts at publichearing on April 10.

County Executive Ed Long speaks in Mount Vernon in February. Long wasrequested by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to present a list offurther possible budget cuts. Those cuts, which Long presented onMarch 18, include a $1.3 million cut to employment programs for spe-cial education graduates.

Lydia Ruiz and Melissa Saunders are graduating from Fairfax CountyPublic Schools this June. Melissa attends Falls Church High School, andLydia attends the James Earl Pulley Center in Alexandria.

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By Lisa Spinelli

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Many Northern Virginian stu-dents are biting their nails,waiting for their college ad-mission letters this week.

But in a sea of overachievers, NoVa studentsare coming across a pervasive issue with in-state colleges—what is being dubbed the“the Northern Virginia Problem.” Many resi-dents of Fairfax, Alexandria City, Loudon,Fauquier, Prince William and Arlingtoncounties are spreading the word that topVirginia universities—the University of Vir-ginia, Washington and Lee and William andMary are becoming harder and harder toget into.

“I applied to a lot of Virginia schools. Ididn’t get into UVa, but I’m not surprisedbecause it’s gotten so hard—especially fromLangley (High School) where everyoneseemed to be applying to the same schools,”says Chris Susskind, a 3.8 (weighted) GPAsenior at Langley High School with multipleAP courses, a near-perfect ACT score and avolunteer with disabled children. “It’s (UVahas) become ivy league for schools in Vir-ginia.”

Other high-achieving seniors, like DrewTreger of W.T. Woodson High School, don’teven bother applying.

“I knew I wasn’t going to get in, so I didn’teven try,” says Treger, captain of the men’svarsity lacrosse team and of the Fellowshipfor Christian Athletes at Woodson, who alsoholds a 3.5 GPA with four AP classes underhis belt.

THESE TOP VIRGINIA UNIVERSITIESare not trying to totally dispel the rumorseither—they are in fact accepting less of apercentage of NoVa students. But the rea-sons are not that they’ve become more strin-gent in their admission policies or moreselective, they claim. The problem it seemsis an issue of sheer volume. All hope is notlost, however, and we have a few tips forthose students vying for entrance into thesetop-ranked schools.

Data from the University of Virginia’scommunications office supports the rumorsthat they are indeed accepting less of a per-centage of Northern Virginia applicants—39 percent this year compared to 42 per-cent for fall 2009. However, the number ofstudents applying from our NoVa countiesis also increasing—up 25 percent in just fiveyears. Unless UVa and the other top-ratedschools grow their facilities as fast as theirapplicant pool, there’s naturally going to beless of a percentage accepted.

“Generally, the academic quality of incom-ing classes here has increased over the yearsand the number of applications for limitedspots continues to set records,” says CharlesMcGregor McCance, senior director of me-dia relations at UVA. “This raises the com-petitive environment for all applicants fromeverywhere. For the current academic year,the University received more than 31,000applications for about 3,500 spots.”

The same trend appears to be the casewith the College of William and Mary. Ac-cording to data pulled from the State Coun-cil of Higher Education for Virginia, appli-cations into this top-rated Virginia collegeincreased 12 percent in the last five yearsand their acceptance rate only went downfrom 44 percent to 42. The actual numberof students being accepted is steadily in-creasing at UVa and William and Mary, justnot the percentage.

Washington and Lee University does not

report or collect data by county, the com-munications department informed us.

“We have always taken 15 percent fromVirginia,” says Brian Eckert, executive di-rector of communications and public affairsfor Washington and Lee. “We look at gradesfirst and—once we know that someone canhandle the work here—then we start look-ing at demonstrated strong leadership andstudents who have performed communityservice.”

Fairfax County alone grew from 969,000in 2000 to over 1.1 million in 2013. Withthousands more students flooding the ap-plication system, it may seem harder tostand out amongst classmates—many ofwhom are getting straight As. But stressingout over SATs and class rank isn’t the mosteffective way to beat out the competition.

Yes, it’s true the types and grades you getin those classes are the first and foremostaspects of a transcript these colleges are

looking at but leadership roles, cali-ber of essays and an overall interest-ing aspect about you—something tomake you diverse, is what they allclaim to set those who stand outagainst those who get weeded out.

“More and more students are add-ing an area of interest when apply-ing to colleges,” says Judith Hingle,career connections specialist with theFairfax County Public School System.“Adding a prospective major can help,because colleges need to balance allthose things.”

With engineering degrees being themost popular, Eckert agreed there areundoubtedly more STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Math)students applying now than ever be-fore, but classics majors are at an all-time low across the nation.

JUST TWO YEARS AGO, FairfaxCounty schools adapted a more ca-reer-minded focus with the installa-tion of the Naviance system, a Web-based system FCPS named the Fam-ily Connection. Naviance is a careerand academic guidance software sys-tem that links students’ academicchoices to the counseling offices andhelps them determine their highschool, college and subsequent careerpath. Hingle says this kind of focuscan only help up students’ chances atreceiving those coveted admissionletters.

Another way around the system en-tirely—which can also cut down onyour final tuition bill—is to attend aVirginia community college. Many topschools in Virginia and the D.C. areahave a guaranteed admissions agree-ment with not just UVa, but Williamand Mary, certain colleges withinGeorge Washington University andCatholic University of America. Wash-ington and Lee, however, does notparticipate.

And if all else fails, Hingle says notto despair, there are tons of othergreat schools in Virginia that wereestablished after the 19th century—many of whom are taking a higherpercentage of NoVa students than inyears past.

“Pick a school that really interestsyou,” Hingle advises. “If you just fo-cus on the high end, a lot of great kidsbecome discouraged, but there arelots of chances to grow and learn herein Virginia.”

Photo courtesy the Communications and Public Affairs Office

Students at Washington and Lee University.

Photo by Sanjay Suchak, U.Va. Office of University Communications

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The Northern Virginia ProblemTop VirginiaUniversities are harderto get into: checkingwhy and how to help.

“It’s (UVa has)become ivy league forschools in Virginia.”

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a program that is an essential componentof a system of housing and services thatoffer individuals and families in need theoptimum chances for success;

❖ These recommendations support a widespectrum of households along the housingcontinuum;

❖ No funding for new initiatives is re-quested. Instead, these recommendationsfund coordinated efforts between housingand service providers to deliver criticalsafety net supports with maximum effi-ciency and adoption of best practices.

Our coalition supports the limited hous-ing and human services funding in theCounty Executive’s Budget, and respectfullyurges no further cuts to these budgets. Thisrequest is made in light of significant cutsto these programs over the past few years,even as the need for housing, childcare,healthcare and other human services havegrown. In supporting the County’s Execu-tive proposals, we would like to highlightthe following:

Contract Rate Increases for Human Ser-vice Providers: We support the CountyExecutive’s inclusion of $2.17 million for acontract rate increase for human servicesproviders in the County, especiallynonprofits. These providers offer criticalservices to low and moderate income house-holds that would fall to the county alone ifthe nonprofit partners did not exist. Thesecommunity-based organizations have builtcorporate and private sector support fortheir efforts to leverage public resources.However, funding for these organizationsthat provide services must keep pace withinflation, our high cost of living, pay andbenefits, to attract and retain their staff.

Consolidated Community Funding Pool(CCFP): We support the increase of$743,388 (7.5 percent over the FY 2014Adopted Budget amount of $9.9 million)for the first year of a two-year CCFP cyclethat begins in FY 2015. FY 2015 Commu-nity Development Block Grant funding isprojected to be $1.8 million, an increase of$250,791. The total FY 2015 CCFP fundingis therefore anticipated to be $12.4 million,an increase of $944,179 over the FY 2014amount of $11.4 million. This additionalfunding strengthens the county’s investmentin community-based programs and is wel-comed.

Mondloch Place $275,000 (Office to Endand Prevent Homelessness): We supportfunding needed for on-site supportive ser-vices to formerly homeless single adults.The funds will pay the contract costs tooperate the program, including staffing thefacility, and leverages the county’s invest-ment in the substantial renovation of thebuilding.

Employment Services $200,000 (Office toEnd and Prevent Homelessness): We sup-port continued funding for a pilot programintegrating employment services into theexisting Bridging Affordability frameworkof the Housing Blueprint. Providing servicesthat adequately address the special needsof many in the Bridging Affordability pro-gram — something that is lacking in exist-

ing employment services programs — isessential for these households to achievegreater financial security and self-suffi-ciency. This funding was originally includedin the FY 2014 budget, but was held in re-serve pending approval of the plan.

Katherine K. Hanley Townhomes$235,220 (Office to End and PreventHomelessness): We support funding to pro-vide supportive housing and services tofamilies with children. Two 3-unit buildingsare scheduled to open in December 2014.

Domestic and Sexual Violence Services$139,973 (Department of Family Services):We support funding for one new programmanager position to address both increas-

of extremely low income families have ac-cess to stable housing options and don’tcycle back into homelessness.

The FY2015 advertised budget also in-cludes $5 million for the New Private Part-ner Acquisition to increase the county’sstock of committed affordable housing. Thisfunding would be used to preserve or de-velop 120 units of affordable housing forlow income working families, but thisamount is inadequate to provide the gapfinancing for such a project, especially if thegoal of serving formerly homeless persons,as stated in the Blueprint, is to be achieved.

In considering these requests, please notethe following statistics:

sured clients to travel to Charlottesville,spending scarce money and missing daysat work. It is our understanding that a work-ing group of public and private providersand leaders has recently initiated efforts tobuild and sustain a local specialty networksystem.

Therefore, rather than recommend res-toration of the funding at this time, we sug-gest that the county continue to support thiseffort and play an appropriate role in de-veloping solutions to this problem. By thetime of Carryover, we should all have a bet-ter understanding about the needed re-sources, if any.

This coalition appreciates the significantbudget challenges you face for FY2015, andthanks you for our partnership as we worktogether in support of the most vulnerablein our community. However, we are deeplyconcerned that the housing and human ser-vices system has reached a “tipping point”where it will not be possible to decreasefunding without sacrificing services andfailing to meet the human services needs ofcounty residents. We believe that there isvery little margin for error, and that anyfurther cuts will result in program reduc-tions, eliminations, or waiting lists for ser-vices. If Fairfax County is to remain a placeof excellence, we must come together as acommunity to discuss a long term strategyfor funding and maintaining adequate, an-nual investments in housing and humanservices in future budgets.

Signed by:Alternative House, Judith Dittman, Executive

Director; Centreville Immigration Forum/Centreville Labor Resource Center, Alice Foltz,Board President; Cornerstones, Kerrie Wilson,CEO; Community Residences, Inc. Dennis J.Manning, LCSW, President and CEO; FACETS,Inc., Amanda Andere, Executive Director; FairfaxArea Disability Services Board; Fairfax CountyAlliance for Human Services, Shannon Steene,Chair; Fairfax Education Association, KimberleyAdams, President; Governing Board of theFairfax Falls Church Partnership to Prevent andEnd Homelessness, Michael L. O’Reilly, Chair-man; Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia,Rev. Jon Smoot, Executive Director; James MottCommunity Assistance Program, Inc., CherylMavritte, Executive Director and RebeccaJohnson, Acting Board Chair; Literacy Council ofNorthern Virginia, Patricia Donnelly, ExecutiveDirector; Lorton Community Action Center,Linda Patterson, Executive Director; New HopeHousing, Pam Michell, Executive Director;Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance,Michelle Krocker, Executive Director; NorthernVirginia Family Service, Mary Agee, Presidentand CEO; Our Daily Bread, Lisa Whetzel,Executive Director and Richard Haynes, BoardPresident; Pathway Homes, Inc., Sylisa Lambert-Woodard, President and CEO; PRS, Inc., WendyGradison, LCSW, President and CEO; ShelterHouse, Inc., Joe Meyer, Deputy ExecutiveDirector and Denise Miller, Board President;United Community Ministries, Shirley Marshall,Executive Director and Jim Seeley, Boardmember and Chair of the Advocacy Committee;Volunteers of America Chesapeake, Russell K.Snyder, President and CEO; Wesley HousingDevelopment Corporation, Shelley Murphy,President and CEO; Western Fairfax ChristianMinistries, Melissa Jansen, Executive Director;Individual citizen advocates Marlene Blum,Vienna (Providence District); Alvin W.Smuzynski, Fairfax Station (Springfield District);Francis J. Pettit, Burke (Springfield District), andEllen Hayes, Fairfax (Braddock District)

Securing safe, decent affordable housing remainsone of the greatest challenges for low and moderateincome households in Fairfax County and is aconsiderable barrier to a family’s ability to achievestability and self-sufficiency.

ing caseloads and the complexity of workin the Office for Women and Domestic andSexual Violence Services.

Investment in School Readiness $714,000(Office of Children): We support the CountyExecutive’s proposal in the FY2015 budgetto expand community-based programs forchildren living in poverty to reach schoolbenchmarks.

Affordable Housing (Housing and Com-munity Development): Securing safe, de-cent affordable housing remains one of thegreatest challenges for low and moderateincome households in Fairfax County andis a considerable barrier to a family’s abil-ity to achieve stability and self-sufficiency.

Housing Blueprint: The FY 2015 adver-tised budget includes $1.95 million to fundthe Bridging Affordability rental programas a portion of the budget for the FY 2015Housing Blueprint. The funding for this pro-gram was reallocated in the FY2014 bud-get, and the proposed FY2015 allocation isapproximately $2 million less than FY2013.

Bridging Affordability was adopted as thecounty’s signature program within theHousing Blueprint to move families out ofhomelessness and onto a more sustainablefuture. This program provides rental subsi-dies and case management to extremelylow-income households, and has success-fully served over 281 families. BridgingAffordability works. Nearly 70 percent ofhouseholds that have successfullytransitioned out of Bridging Affordabilityinto permanent housing have moved on tofair market housing.

With the current Bridging Affordabilityprogram funding, we are positioned to con-tinue to serve approximately 150 newhouseholds through FY14 and FY15. Begin-ning in FY16, it is critical that Fairfax Countycontinues to invest in this high-impact, high-demand program to ensure that hundreds

❖ U.S. Census Bureau statistics show anestimated 73,916 households in FairfaxCounty earning less than $50,000 annually,or about 47 percent of the area’s medianincome for a family of four ($107,300);

❖ Census data also shows an estimated67,293 persons living below the povertylevel in Fairfax County;

❖ According to the Center for HousingResearch at Virginia Tech, the total afford-able housing gap in Fairfax County for lowand moderate-income renters (earning nomore than $85,000 for a family of four) is28,405 units;

❖ The Blueprint for Housing shows ashortfall of 1,818 units for FY2015 in meet-ing the goals of the 10 Year Plan to Preventand End Homelessness;

❖ Nearly 1,650 CSB clients need afford-able housing.

Communities who are successful in ad-dressing their unmet housing needs haveadopted a dedicated, reliable source offunding to preserve or develop housing thatis affordable. The county’s greatest stridesin affordable housing were made during theyears when one penny of the real estate taxwas dedicated to housing preservation.Whether it’s a dedicated revenue source oran annual, reliable commitment to a hous-ing trust fund, we urge Fairfax County toonce again consider this investment in hous-ing that is affordable and needed for a sig-nificant and growing percentage of theCounty’s population.

Community Health Care Network(CHCN): In FY 2014, funding for CHCN wascut by $752,000. The $250,000 reductionin specialty care contracts that resulted hasworsened an already insufficient supply oflocal specialists. CHCN has therefore in-creased its utilization and reliance on Uni-versity of Virginia Medical Center special-ists, requiring CHCN’s low income, unin-


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Jubil-Aires Concert. 2 & 7 p.m.Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124Park Street NE, Vienna. The FairfaxJubil-Aires Annual Spring Show willbe a joint fundraiser for both theJubil-Aires and the Shepherd’s Centerof Fairfax-Burke. Tickets are $20 andallow you to attend either concert. Ifyou buy your tickets ahead of timefrom the SCFB office at 703-425-2824 or a SCFB Council or Boardmember, $10 of the ticket price is adonation directly to SCFB. Allproceeds from tickets sold at the doorgo only to the Jubil-Aires.

Cabaret Series: It’s A ComedyNight. 8 p.m. Workhouse ArtsCenter, 9518 Workhouse Way,Lorton. Featuring a wide gamut ofmusic intended to tickle your funnybone, from Broadway to standards tonovelty songs, there’s something foreveryone who enjoys a good laugh.Tickets: $30.

Children’s Cherry BlossomCelebration. 1-3 p.m. Green SpringGardens, 4603 Green Spring Road,Alexandria. For ages 3 and up, learnabout the cherry tree history and thespringtime tradition that brings somany visitors to Washington everyyear. This open house formatincludes origami, a paper lanterncraft, and a cherry tree ‘hunt’.Register at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/greenspring or call 703-642-5173.

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Once Upon A Time…7:30-10 p.m.Workhouse Arts Center, 9518Workhouse Way, Lorton. A fairy talethemed costume ball. The eveningincludes music, social dancing,unique silent auction opportunities,food, laughter and special liveperformances by cabaret vocalists.Admission includes entertainment,light refreshments and two beveragetokens. Tokens may also be used forvoting for the “Queen” of the night.Costumes are not required for entry,but do we encourage all to find somefairy tale inspiration for their attire-there will be a ‘door prize’ or two forthe most imaginative costumes!Limited admission, early reservationsstrongly recommended. $40 perperson. http://workhousearts.org/events/performing-arts/once-upon-time

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Robinson Girls’ Lax Starts 3-0The Robinson girls’ lacrosse team won its first three games of the season, scoring

at least 20 goals in two of the contests.The Rams defeated South County 20-7 on March 31 to improve to 3-0. Robinson

beat Chantilly 22-6 on March 27 and Woodson 16-14 on March 24.Robinson faced Lake Braddock on Wednesday, after The Connection’s deadline.

The Rams will travel to face T.C. Williams at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8.

Lake Braddock Softball Improves to 3-0The Lake Braddock softball team defeated West Springfield 21-0 on Tuesday with

Bruins pitchers throwing a combined no-hitter. The victory improved Lake Braddock’srecord to 3-0.

The Bruins will host West Potomac at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 4.

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By Jon Roetman

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The Marshall and Robinson base-ball teams took turns on March27 capitalizing on each other’smistakes. Down by two runs in

the bottom of the seventh inning, Robinsonrallied to ensure Marshall’s next miscuewould be its last.

Robinson senior Kaden Darrow tied thescore with a two-run single and Marshallcatcher Mitch Blackstone’s throwing errorallowed the winning run to score as theRams pulled out a 6-5 victory at RobinsonSecondary School.

Robinson trailed 5-1 in the second inningand 5-3 entering the bottom of the seventh,but found a way to improve to 3-0 with itssecond consecutive walk-off victory. TheRams defeated West Springfield 4-3 onMarch 24 and opened the season with a 7-2 win over Woodson on March 22. Marshallfell to 1-2.

“We played five innings, six innings,things weren’t really going our way and wefound a way to pull it out,” Robinson headcoach John James said, “and that’s a confi-dence builder.”

ROBINSON ENTERS the 2014 seasonwith 10 seniors on the roster, including sixathletes in their third year on the varsity —pitcher/outfielder Chris Lohr, outfielderAdam Sisk, infielder/outfielder Zach Beck,outfielder Tyler Fitchett, pitcher/infielderDanny Herrera and Darrow. That experiencepaid off in the bottom of the seventh in-ning as the Rams, who had struggled at theplate for much of the contest, found a wayto rally against 6-foot-5 Marshall left-hander Riley Cummins, who will pitch forthe University of Virginia.

Leading 5-3 in the seventh, Marshall headcoach Aaron Tarr moved Cummins fromright field to the mound to close it out. ButRobinson loaded the bases with one outafter two walks, a strikeout and a States-men error. Darrow’s two-run single tied thescore at 5 and gave the Rams runners atthe corners. During Fitchett’s ensuing at bat,Blackstone tried to throw behind the Ramrunner at third base, but the catcher’s at-tempted pick-off sailed into left field, allow-ing the winning run to score.

Blackstone went 3-for-4 with a double atthe plate and threw out two would-be base-stealers before his seventh-inning miscue.

“[The runner at third] seemed to me thathe was a little farther off the base then mostpeople were,” Blackstone said. “I thought Icould get [Cummins] a quick out. … [The]ball just got away from me.”

Darrow’s two-run single put the Rams ina position to capitalize on the error.

“He’s been kind of an under-the-radarguy,” James said. “He’s been a three-yearstarter here, too, and has been very pro-ductive for three years. … He’s a utility guy.

“That senior leadership and that experienceis invaluable, especially in games like thiswhen our backs are to the wall and theybring in their horse. You’ve got to have guysthat aren’t bothered by that — aren’t both-ered by the situation and aren’t botheredby who is on the mound and they’re justgoing to compete. Our backs were to thewall and they came up big for us.”

The Statesmen took a 5-1 lead in the sec-ond inning thanks to a Rams error. Withthe score tied at 1, Marshall had the basesloaded with two outs when Blackstone hitan infield pop-up. Robinson starting pitcherShane Hopkins dropped the ball in front ofhome plate, allowing two runs to score.Marshall first baseman Patrick Evans fol-lowed with a two-run single, giving theStatesmen a 5-1 advantage.

Marshall returned the favor in the bot-tom of the fourth. Robinson had the basesloaded with two outs when Statesmen start-ing pitcher Will Brooke got Robinson seniorHerrera to pop up. But Marshall infieldersappeared to lose sight of the ball, which fellto the ground for a two-run single, cuttingthe Statesmen lead to 5-3.

THE PERFORMANCE of William & Mary-bound pitcher Lohr also played a pivotalrole in the Robinson comeback. Lohr cameon in relief with one on and two outs in thetop of the second inning and Marshall lead-ing 5-1.After allowing a single to junior ShaneRussell, Lohr picked the runner off first baseto get out of the inning. The right-handerwent on to pitch 5 1/3 innings of scorelessrelief and earn the win.

“In that situation, I just try and pitch likeit’s the start of the game,” Lohr said. “[Ineeded to] take the runners on base out ofmy mind and just get the batters one at atime until I get out of that inning and thenit’s really just inning by inning.”

Lohr allowed three hits. He walked one,hit two batters and struck out seven.

“Obviously, he did a fantastic job for us,and that’s what we rely on him to do,”James said. “He’s a senior and he’s beenwith us for three years and that’s what he’scapable of doing and that’s what we needhim to do — is come in and settle thingsdown for us and give us a chance to winand he did.”

Brooke pitched well for Marshall but re-ceived a no decision. The junior right-hander pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowingthree runs and five hits while walking fourand striking out two.

Cummins took the loss, surrenderingthree runs — one earned — and one hit in1/3 of an inning. He walked two and struckout one.

Robinson’s Hopkins went 2-for-3 againstMarshall. Herrera and Darrow each had ahit and two RBIs, Fitchett had a hit and anRBI, and Will Miller had a hit.

Robinson was travel to face Annandaleat 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 5.

“We’ve been running short on regionalsfor the last few years,” Darrow said, “but Ihave high hopes for this year.”

Robinson Baseball Rallies to Beat MarshallRams have 10 seniorson this year’s team.

Robinson senior Chris Lohr pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in relief toearn the victory against Marshall on March 27.

Robinson senior Adam Sisk, right, scores a run after collidingwith Marshall catcher Mitch Blackstone on March 27.

We put him everywhere in the field. Heplays anywhere defensively.”

James said experience played a major role

in the Rams’ comeback.“Every guy that came to the plate there

in the last inning was a senior,” he said.

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SATURDAY/APRIL 5Navigating the Complexities of

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Reston 50/100 Founder’s DayCelebration. 12-3 p.m. Lake AnnePlaza, 11426 Washington Plaza W,Reston. Fifty years after Robert E.Simon, Jr. founded Reston, itcontinues to flourish and over 50,000

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Edward D. Connor, WW II Army AirCorps veteran, will discuss the Battleof the Bismarck Sea of March 2-4,1943. Admission is free. Forinformation, call Len Ignatowski at703-255-0353 or visitwww.vva227.org.

Ideas for the Garden. 11 a.m. at theLittle Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025Little Falls Road. Landscape designerand horticulturalist Florence Evertswill speak on design principlesduring the monthly program of theRock Spring Garden Club. Free andopen to the public, with an optional$5 lunch following the program.RSVP by April 10 to

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Shortly after 10 a.m. on any givenTuesday or Thursday morning, 84-year-old Lola Wulchin can be foundslowly stretching into a downward

facing dog pose or lunging into a warriorone posture. The Vienna resident has beena yoga devotee at East Meets West YogaCenter in Vienna for slightly more than twoyears. In fact, she credits twice-weekly,gentle yoga practice with boosting herhealth and improving her quality of life.

“I had been bothered by a lot of neck painfrom arthritis,” said Wulchin. “I had seen apain management doctor who gave meshots, I had physical therapy, but I still hadneck pain and very little range of motion.”

A turning point came after she was struckby a passing comment from one of her doc-tors. “My neurologist mentioned that hiswife had been doing yoga for back pain andit had helped. So I decided to try it.”

Wulchin embarked on a twice-weeklyritual that she describes as life changing.“My gentle yoga classes have been a God-send,” she said. “I have less pain now. I still

have some stiffness, but I have a betterrange of motion.”

She isn’t the only senior to reap the ben-efits of yoga. Researchers at the American

Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and theAmerican Academy of Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation conducted an eight-weekstudy of 23 adults aged 62 to 83 years old.

They designed a yoga program for that agegroup with the goals of improving lower-body strength and flexibility. Participants

Yoga teachers, research pointto health benefits for seniors.Seniors Rush to Yoga

Linda Liberatucci, 67, Colette Ashley, 70+, Ann Mandelbaum, 68, Lola Wulchin, 84 and Frankie Gibson, 74, doa downward facing dog pose during gentle yoga class at East Meets West Yoga Center in Vienna.

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By Marilyn Campbell

The Connection

The AARP reports that nearly 80 per-cent of adults age 65 and olderwant to remain in their current

homes as long as possible. That populationis growing. According to the Departmentof Health and Human Services’ Administra-

More Seniors Plan To Age in PlaceMany local techniques and programs canhelp seniors stay in their homes longer.tion on Aging, the population 65 years orolder numbered 39.6 million in 2009. By2030, that number will grow to about 72.1million.

While people are living longer andhealthier lives, there are still barriers toaging in place, including medication man-agement, self-care, socialization and trans-portation. But there are innovative strate-gies and initiatives to help combat theseroadblocks.

“We’re showing people how to modifytheir home so that it is accessible,” said saidRobert C. Eiffert, the Long Term Care Pro-gram manager for the Fairfax County HealthDepartment. Fairfax and other local coun-ties are conducting workshops on how tomake a home safe for a senior who wantsto live alone. “We’re talking about thingslike adding a ramp to your front door,changing your door knobs and cabinethandles for people who have arthritis intheir hands.”

“There are wonderful emerging technolo-gies that allow adult children to monitortheir parents who live alone,” he said. “It isnot intrusive. There are not cameras in-volved, but there are motion sensors. Forexample, if there is no movement in themorning, an adult child might think,‘Hmmm, I need to check.’”

Andrew J. Carle, director of the SeniorHousing Administration at George Mason

University, recommends First Street forBoomers and Beyond(www.firststreetonline.com) which offersproducts for seniors and their caregivers.“Products like a nice walk in bathtub forseniors or an alarm that reminds you whento take your medicine are things you cando to change your home and make it safe.”

A LACK OF SOCIAL interaction and men-tal stimulation can contribute to depressionand mental deterioration, Carle said. Or-

Photo courtesy of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at GeorgeMason University take an educational field trip. Opportunities for social-izing and learning are important as one ages.

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ganizations like the Osher Lifelong Learning Insti-tute (OLLI) at George Mason University, offer op-portunities for intellectual stimulation and culturalexperiences for retirees in Northern Virginia.

“OLLI, as we call it, is for people who don’t wantto sit around and watch television all day,” said Carle.“Professors volunteer their time to give lectures onart, history, science and other topics. Listening to pro-fessors speak about stimulating topics helps keeptheir brains sharp.”

Jennifer Disano, OLLI’s executive director, says thegroup has 1,200 members, and is funded by an en-dowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation. Thegroup’s main campus is in Fairfax, but other cam-puses are in Reston and Sterling. It serves the needsof those who might not feel comfortable in tradi-tional college classrooms and don’t want the pres-sure of writing papers and taking tests, but are stillinterested in learning.

“We have people here who were economists andworked with finance, but in their retired life theywant to explore areas … like art classes or historyclasses,” she said.

One of those members is 76-year-old John Woods.He has attended three to four OLLI events a weekfor 10 years. “We have a wide variety of profession-als and a wide variety of groups that meet,” he said.“We have a group that meets to talk about financial

investments. Anothergroup meets every Mondaymorning at 9 a.m. andlooks at the past week’sheadlines from the Wash-ington Post, New YorkTimes and Wall StreetJournal. They have insightsthat are important. Thestimulating thing is sharingideas among ourselves.Ó

VILLAGES AREcommunity-based organi-zations designed to helpmembers help each otherremain independent and inthe communities of theirchoice. “Back in 2000, vil-lages started with a groupin Boston, and in 2007there was a big boom,” saidBarbara Sullivan, execu-tive director of MountVernon at Home in MountVernon. “It is community-based. Every village is dif-ferent, but they’re there for

people who want to age in place.”Eiffert, of George Mason, says village mem-

bers define the type and scope of services. “Agood starting point when creating a village isto survey the community members to deter-mine their needs,” he said. “We provide tech-nical assistance to community groups that areinterested in putting together a village andencouragement on what models work best fortheir community. Fairfax County is workingwith Montgomery County to rewrite themanual on how to start a village.”

Programs, Technology Aid Aging in Place Gracefully

Photos courtesy of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at George Mason University play musicfor their peers. Below, other members listen to a lecture.

Local VillagesFairfax County Villages

For more information about current Villagesin Fairfax County, call, email or visit the webpage of one of the Villages listed below:

❖ Braddock District Council Aging inPlace Program — Email:[email protected]

❖ Franklin Park Village — [email protected] or call 703-534-4964

❖ Herndon Village Network (HVN) —703-582-9482

❖ Lake Barcroft Village —www.lakebarcroftvillage.org

❖ McLean Community: A Village forAll Ages (MCVA) — [email protected] or visitwww.mcva.weebly.com

❖ Mosby Woods Village —[email protected]

❖ Mount Vernon at Home Village —www.mountvernonathome.org

❖ Reston for a Lifetime —www.restonforalifetime.org

❖ Reston Useful Services Exchange —www.restonuse.org

To learn more, visit the Village to VillageNetwork at www.vtvnetwork.org.

There are a few different models, including the“Concierge Village,” which is a non-profit model thatcoordinates access to an array of services throughvetted providers, including transportation, home re-pairs, care coordination and computer technicians.Most also include social and educational activities.Members arrange for services by calling a centralphone number, and pay annual dues that can rangefrom $500 to $800 for an individual and $700 to$1,200 for a couple.

The “All Volunteer” model organizes communityvolunteers to provide services and support to oth-

ers. There are no paid staff. In some cases, hoursdonated by volunteers are “banked” and can beused in the future if the volunteer needs servicesor assistance. The “Neighborhood Network” is alsoinformal. Groups meet on a regular basis to hearspeakers on topics of interest selected by mem-bers.

ANOTHER BIG GAP is medication manage-ment, Eiffert said. “If someone can’t manage theirown medication and can’t afford to pay someoneto come in to do it for them, that is a service gapthat forces people into assisted living facilities.”

Carle agrees that the decision to age in place iscomplicated. “The first knee-jerk reaction is thatwhen asked, seniors want to stay in their ownhomes,” he said, adding that those surveys canbe misleading: “The surveys are not always cred-ible if you’re surveying people who are 50-plus.I’m 54 and of course I want to stay in my house,but ask me again in 20 years. I think they shouldbe surveying people who are 75-plus.”

In addition, “people don’t always understandthe economic, social and safety aspects of it,” headded. “You can create all kinds of technologyand universal designs to create a house for agingin place, but a senior might not be able to affordit. It could end up costing far more than the bestassisted living facility in town.”

Granny Pods, small prefabricated homes that al-low families to house their relatives in small back-yard cottages, are another alternative. “These smallliving units allow you to put an elderly relative inyour backyard and hook up to your electricity,”said Carle.


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TUESDAY/APRIL 18Genealogical Society Meeting. 1

p.m. at Hollin Hall Senior Center,room 112, 1500 Shenandoah Road.Mount Vernon Genealogical Societymeeting will feature a presentationentitled “Experiences of a YoungWaist Gunner in WW II” by RayBailey. What was it like for an 18year old high school graduate from asmall Ohio town to go off to war,fight the Germans and survive hisplane “going down?” Visitwww.MVGenealogy.org. Questionsabout the program should be directedto Karen Jenkins at 703-866-2478 [email protected].

WEDNESDAY/APRIL 23Author Lecture: Cheat the Clock.1

p.m. at Westminster at Lake Ridge,12191 Clipper Drive, Lake Ridge,Va.Margaret Pressler will discuss herbook, “Cheat the Clock: How NewScience Can Help You Look and FeelYounger.” First 20 registrants receivefree copy of the book. Call 703-496-3440 to attend. Visit wlrva.org formore.

THURSDAY/APRIL 24Condo Living Class. 7-9 p.m. at The

Station at Potomac Yard, 650 MaskellSt. The City and Arlington andFairfax Counties will host a two-hour“Understanding CondominiumLiving” class. Free, seating is limited.Confirm attendance at 703-746-4990or [email protected].

WEDNESDAY/APRIL 30How to Protect Yourself From

Identity Theft. 1:30-2:30 p.m. at

designed to work on balance andcore muscles for injury prevention.$10. Call 703-667-9800.

American Red Cross CPR, First Aidand AED. Various times, at 2720State Route 699, Suite 200, Fairfax.One-year certification, digital or printmaterials and continued educationon Mondays through Thursday andSaturday. $70-110. Visitwww.redcrossnca.org.

The Groveton High School class of1964 is looking for contactinformation for as many classmatesas possible. The planning for the 50threunion is underway, however only asmall number of people have beencontacted. Groveton graduates of ’64interested in attending nextSeptember’s reunion should emailcontact information [email protected].

Band musicians are invited to join theMount Vernon CommunityBand. Rehearsals are Tuesday 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Mount Vernon HighSchool band room, 8515 Old MountVernon Road. There are no auditions.The Mount Vernon Community Bandis a nonprofit community serviceorganization that has performed inthe Mount Vernon area since 1978.703-768-4172 orwww.mvbands.com.

Call For Articles. The ArlingtonHistorical Society welcomes articlesfor publication in the annualArlington Historical Magazine.Although the focus is on ArlingtonCounty history, subjects dealing withthe history of Northern Virginia, orthe metropolitan Washington, D.C.area, are also appropriate andwelcomed. Articles should be 1,500to 6,000 words in length. Thedeadline for receipt of copy is July 1,2014. There is a prescribed format,especially for endnotes. A style sheetwill be provided upon request, andthe editor will assist authors and/ormake corrections as needed. Picturesand maps are encouraged, but shouldbe submitted separately, and creditinformation and suggested captionsshould also be included. Directquestions to Editor W. KarlVanNewkirk at 703-536-5916,[email protected]; or1116 North Rochester St., Arlington,VA 22205-1741.

Free mall walking program forseniors will be held Tuesdays andThursdays from 8:30-9:30 a.m. atBallston Common Mall, 4238 WilsonBlvd. Participants walk at their ownpace. There will be a group stretchand cool down led by VirginiaHospital Center staff. 703-558-6859.

Choral Rehearsal. Encore Chorale’sspring season will start Jan. 14 from2-3:30 p.m. at Langston BrownSenior Center, 2121 Culpeper St.Anyone over the age of 55 canparticipate. Registration informationis available at encorecreativity.org, orby calling 301-261-5747 or via e-mailto [email protected].

Lifeline Personal Alert System.Virginia Hospital Center SeniorHealth staff locally manage thepersonal emergency response system.Help is available 24 hours a day,seven days a week. Monthly coststarts at $42. Call 703-558-6859 formore information.

Senior Fall Prevention Classes in aheated indoor pool designed to workon balance and core muscles toprevent injuries and falls. Instructoris certified in back and hip rehab.Classes are held Tuesdays and/orThursday, 1:30-2:30 p.m.; at TheWoodlands Retirement Community,4320 Forest Hill Drive, Fairfax. $10per class. Registration required, call703-667-9800. Space is limited

Centreville Garden Club Meeting.7 p.m. every third Monday at SullyGovernment Center, 4900 StonecroftBlvd., Chantilly. Learn more atcentrevillegardenclub.blogspot.comor e-mail:[email protected].

Westminster at Lake Ridge, 12191Clipper Drive, Lake Ridge, Va.Courtney Sweeney of Wells FargoAsset Management will share tips toprevent identity theft before. RSVP toMichelle 703-496-3440, or visitwlrva.org for more.

SATURDAY/MAY 3Plant Sale. 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at

Wakefield High School, 1325 S.Dinwiddie St., on the DinwiddieStreet side of the building. Annuals,perennials, herbs, vegetables andflowering baskets available.Place anorder before April 12 in the schoolmain office; drop it off or mail it in.Order forms are available on theWakefield Website http://apsva.us/Page/17411.

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Northern Virginia. For women,the club includes Bridge, mah jong,gardening, quilting and many otheractivities.www.newneighborsvirginia.com.

Join Jewish War Veterans of theUSA. The Burke Post E 100 at 5712Walnut Wood, Burke, invites Jewishveterans and service members to join.703-209-5925.

Singers Wanted for theCelebration Singers. The women’sshow choir is interested in new talentto perform at various NorthernVirginia community sites. Practicesare Wednesdays 10:30 a.m.-2:30p.m. in Burke. Contact Gayle Parsons,703-644-4485 or [email protected].

Senior Fall Prevention Classes.1:30-2:30 p.m., at the WoodlandsRetirement Community, 4320 ForestHill Drive, Fairfax. Tuesday and/orThursday classes in a heated pool

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“Living healthy longer is the mission of the North-ern Virginia Senior Olympics,” said Dave Jerome, ofBurke, chairman of the Northern Virginia SeniorOlympics. “It is our goal to promote healthy agingthrough both mental and physical activity, which iswhy NVSO offers such a wide range of events fromsports to board games.”

The 2014 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics willtake place Sept. 13-24 at 18 venues throughoutNorthern Virginia. Adults 50 years of age and overwho live in one of the sponsoring jurisdictions areeligible to participate.

Events include swimming, diving, track, field, ten-nis, table tennis, racquetball, pickleball, duplicatebridge, chess, scrabble, cribbage, men’s basketball,handball, ERG rowing, Wii bowling, ten pin bowl-ing, eight ball pool, horseshoes, softball hit and

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Online registration will be available atwww.nvso.com after July 1. Registration forms willbe available at senior residences, community cen-ters, seniors centers or by calling 703-228-4721.Registration fee is $12 which covers multiple events.There is no onsite registration. Registration dead-lines are Aug. 29 (mail) and Sept. 5 (online). TheNorthern Virginia Senior Olympics is sponsored bythe counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudounand Prince William and the cities of Alexandria,Fairfax and Falls Church.

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attended two 90-minute yoga classes perweek, and were asked to complete at least20 minutes of directed home practice onalternate days.

The study found yoga programs tailoredto elderly adults can be a cost-effective wayto prevent or reduce age-related changes,specifically an increased risk for falls, de-pendency and other ailments.

Local yoga teachers agree, saying thatwhile yoga classes designed for the 55 andolder crowd are increasing in popularity,myths about the practice keep some seniorsout of yoga studios.

“The main thing that I hear is that youhave to already be flexible to do yoga,” saidSandy Pradas of Joyful Heart Yoga in MountVernon. “People look at pictures in maga-zines of people wrapping their legs aroundtheir necks or doing other advanced posesand they think, ‘If I can’t do that, then I can’tdo yoga.’”

Pradas, whose students are mostly be-tween 50 and 75 years old, said, “Every-body can do yoga, but there are a lot of typesof yoga and not every type is good for ev-erybody.”

Dawn Curtis, owner of East Meets WestYoga Center, recently completed a courseat Duke Integrative Medicine and believes

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an increasing interest in yoga among seniorswill be known as the Silver Tsunami.

“That is baby boomers going into yoga,”she said. “Yoga for seniors is going to bethe biggest target audience that yoga teach-ers are going to have because of the num-ber of baby boomers who are looking foralternative ways of exercise because theyare not going to be able to keep up withimpact exercises like running.”

In fact, she says gentle yoga classes areamong the most popular at her studio. “Ihave students who are as old as 84. We dealwith people who can’t get on the floor,” shesaid.

“We use chairs. We work on balance be-cause that is a main concern among seniors.We work on coordination because that isanother thing that tends to diminish as weage.”

Andrew J. Carle director of the SeniorHousing Administration at George MasonUniversity said an increasing number ofretirement communities are offer yogaclasses as part of their fitness programs.“The future of senior housing will includescience-based wellness activities like yoga,”he said. “Anything that gets us beyond se-nior activities such as birthdays, Bibles,bingo and bridge is a step up.”

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