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HONORING J.T. & MARGARET
T ALKINGT ON
High Point Village
GRATITUDE FOR THE TALKINGTON FOUNDATION BY DOUG SPEARMAN
H igh Point Village and all who are value of contributing to their community to a continuously growing Villager
associated with our organization
population. The Talkington Foundation,
by providing various avenues for them
are extremely grateful for the
us another significant contribution toward
with all our programs and activities, is
Talkington Foundation’s significantly to give back. This program, along again, recognized our need and awarded
positive impact on our Lubbock designed to improve the quality of life for expanding our existing space by 4,000
community. We are especially thankful individuals with special needs. square feet to allow us the opportunity
for the contributions we have received to grow current programs and to begin
that have allowed us to grow, to improve During its initial years of operation, High a new program which will reach a more
the quality of our programs, and to Point Village operated on 110th and Slide needy population.
service a greater number of individuals in a building that was leased for one
with special needs. dollar a year from Bacon Heights Baptist Through the support and generosity of
Church. The demand for our services the Talkington Foundation, High Point
High Point Village is a faith-based, non- quickly increased, along with our Villager Village has the ability to provide a larger
profit organization in Lubbock that is enrollment, and it became necessary scope of enriching programs and services
celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. to find a larger space that would allow to individuals with special needs in and
Our mission is to create a village where for continued growth. The Talkington around the Lubbock Community.
individuals with intellectual disabilities Foundation awarded High Point Village
can live, learn, work, worship, and with a sizeable grant that, along with
achieve their full potential. Since our other donor contributions, including
establishment in 2008, we have provided 63 acres of land in northwest Lubbock,
programs and activities that are designed allowed us to begin construction of a
to enrich the lives of our clientele, called 10,000 square feet Enrichment Center in
Villagers, and their families. 2015. It was completed in December of
the same year. The new larger building,
Currently, programs include our equipped with four large classrooms, an
Reach High day program, Afternoon art room, a multi-purpose great room,
Enrichment Classes, the Heatwaves a commercial kitchen and an office
Special Olympics team, summer camps, space, enabled us to more than double
and, more recently, music therapy. Our enrollment in our Reach High program
primary program, Reach High, is an adult during the next two years and to also
enrichment program that is designed to expand our Afternoon Enrichment classes
provide participants the means to reach and enrollment.
their full potential through vocational,
educational, social, spiritual and Our rate of growth, since moving into our
motivational activities. Reach High works current Enrichment Center, just over two
daily on enterprise skills to showcase years ago, was unforeseen but has, more
each Villager’s unique and individual recently, led us to begin plans to expand
talents, while also teaching them the our building to offer programming
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