Wilderwood is delighted to announce that we have been awarded a $25,000 NEXT For Autism Color the Spectrum grant for our Wild Innovations: A Ribbon of Rainbows proposal. Wilderwood will use the grant to fund scholarships for autistic women to attend our innovative Hautism program, looking specifically to support women of color, women from disadvantaged economic backgrounds, and the LGBTQ community.
The grant is also funding the training of more instructors so we can expand the program and the creation of a program curriculum handbook so others can adopt/adapt Wilderwood’s unique curriculum to their own programs.
Wilderwood is enormously grateful to the NEXT for Autism Board and those involved in the Color the Spectrum grant. The funding will make an enormous difference for autistic adults across New Mexico and, with our new compressed and residential program for Hautism, the United States.
