d'mensions D'Youville college Journal august 2o11

Fargo StreetRenovation UpdateThe long-awaited renovating and beautifyingof a portion of one of the oldest streetson Buffalo’s West Side is underway withcompletion tentatively scheduled for earlySeptember. When completed, it will add toD’Youville’s campus ambience.The $3.5 million Fargo Avenue project,running from Porter Avenue to ConnecticutStreet and intersecting the D’YouvilleCollege campus, is being done by the Cityof Buffalo with funding from a combinationof federal funds and city monies. D’Youvillehad requested the funds through a FederalTransportation Act. After numerous publicand private meetings with neighborhoodorganizations, city officials, and localpoliticians, a plan was agreed upon earlierthis year.A traffic circle located near the exit/entrancedriveway of D’Youville’s Montante FamilyLibrary will highlight the renovation. Itwill be landscaped and include pedestriancrosswalks and a drop-off zone. Traffic willcontinue to use Fargo Avenue to travel bothnorth and south, a major concern for somelocal residents. The circle is expected toact as a “speed reduction” feature makingthe section safer for pedestrians crossingthe street.It will help D’Youville establish a trueurban campus and improve the campusappearance dramatically, according toCollege officials.D. John Bray, director of public relations, andTim Brennan, vice president for institutionaladvancement, present a framed print of theKoessler Administration Building by notedBuffalo artist Margaret M. Martin to TimKennedy ’99, New York State Senator for the58th District. It will hang in his Albany office.D’Youville CollegeSponsors ConferenceKeynote SpeakerThe American Hippotherapy Association’s3rd International Conference was heldin March 2011 in St. Louis, Mo. CarolynBaum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA gave theopening address, sponsored by D’YouvilleCollege.Dr. Baum was an invited guest for theHippotherapy Conference as an inspirationalspeaker who would tie together healthcareconcepts that are common ground for thefields of physical, occupation and speech/language therapy.Dr. Baum currently directs the programin occupational therapy at WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine and teaches inboth the master’s and the doctoral programs.She has held many professional leadershippositions including the prestigious role ofpresident of the American OccupationalTherapy Association (AOTA) from 2004-2007. In addition, she was president ofthe National Board of Certification ofOccupational Therapy and was involvedin two major health policy initiatives. Therehabilitation plan for Congress was writtenduring her term on the National Instituteof Health committee, implementing theNational Center for Medical RehabilitationResearch. She has been editor of theprofessional journal Occupational TherapyJournal of Research (OTJR): Occupation,Participation and Health and is an advisorto both the AOTA and the AmericanOccupational Therapy Foundation ontopics and issues related to research.The focus of Dr. Baum’s research is thecapacity of a person, especially an olderadult, to be able to live independentlyeven with chronic disease or disability.Her peer-reviewed journal publicationsand invited publications such as bookchapters and reviews account for nearly70 documents and manuscripts on thesetopics. The measurement model developedby Dr. Baum and her colleagues assessesthe capacity of a person’s ability to engagein activities, tasks and roles within theirlives. This understanding will maximize theLeft to right: Dr. Sarah Pictor and Dr. CarolynBaum, guest speaker at national hippotherapyconferenceperson’s performance while lessening stressfor the caregiver. Important to consider arephysiological, cognitive, neurobehavioral,psychological, emotional, spiritual andenvironmental factors. This model isparallel to the International Classification ofFunction, Disability and Health (ICF) modelinitiated by the World Health Organizationin 2001. The ICF seeks to identify factorsthat contribute to or are barriers to anindividual’s ability to participate in family,community and society. Previous healthmodels concentrated on impairments andfunctional limitations. Healthcare trendsand the focus on healthcare dollars areturning to the identification of enhancingcapacity and participation for thoseindividuals who have disease and disabilityover the course of their lifetimes.The word hippos from the Greek, means horseand hippotherapy translates as “treatmentwith the help of a horse.” It is a treatmentstrategy implemented by these three clinicalpractices and incorporates the movement ofa horse as a dynamic approach to therapy.In 2009, D’Youville College was awarded agrant from the Greater Buffalo CommunityFoundation through Dr. J. Warren Perry toestablish the first college/university-endorsedhippotherapy program in the nation. FormerAmerican Hippotherapy Association boardof directors member and physical therapydepartment faculty member, Dr. Sarah Pictor,is the program’s director. D’Youville’s PTand OT students enjoy the opportunity tovolunteer and conduct research through thisprogram, which is located at a private estatein East Aurora, N.Y. n2O