On Saturday, March 13th, 16 members of the Elmhurst College community worked with ASPIRE, an organization that works with and supports individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. The group of volunteers assisted with a craft for residents of an assisted living facility, creating gift bags. The volunteers partnered up with some of the residents and spent the morning socializing and assisting them in designing and decorating their gift bags.

ASPIRE is an organization that strives to assist and support children and adults with disabilities as well as their families. Founded in 1960, ASPIRE has become a profoundly successful organization that supports many educational, social and employment programs as well as assisted living facilities that directly assist more than 1000 children and adults a year.

For more information about ASPIRE please visit http://www.aspireofillinois.org/index.html