TED: COMING UP NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON: HOW THE TERROR ATTACKS OF 9-11 CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE WORLD 25 YEARS LATER.

ALSO TONIGHT, A SNEAK-PEEK AT TONIGHT'S EPISODES OF "RESOLVE TO SOLVE WITH MILES O'BRIEN."

AND, CREATING NEW EXPERIENCES FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES.

THOSE STORIES AND MORE, NEXT, ON "ARIZONA HORIZON."

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON.

I'M TED SIMONS.

IT HAS BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE THE 9-11 ATTACKS THAT KILLED ALMOST 3,000 AMERICANS AND INJURED THOUSANDS MORE.

MUCH OF THE WORLD HAS CHANGED IN THOSE 25 YEARS, BUT HOW MUCH OF THAT CHANGE IS DUE TO WHAT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001.

JOINING US NOW IS DANIEL ROTHENBERG, CO-DIRECTOR OF THE FUTURE SECURITY INITIATIVE.

GOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, DANIEL.

THANKS FOR JOINING US.

>> THANK YOU.

TED: LET'S START WITH THE BASICS.

HOW HAS THE WORLD CHANGED SINCE/11?

>> WELL, THAT IS NOT SO EASY TO ANY QUICKLY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN 25 YEARS, SO A LOT HAS HAPPENED.

THE IN ONE'S LIFE IN ALL THE WAYS OUR CURRENT REALITY IS DIFFERENT.

THE ONE THING TO THINK ABOUT IS 100MILLION AMERICANS WHO ARE NOW AROUND WERE NOT AROUND DURING 9/11 SO EVEN TALKING ABOUT 9/11 MEANS TAKING INTO CONVERSATION THAT A LOT OF AMERICANS WERE NOT AROUND FOR IT.

MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT IT.

CERTAINLY DIDN'T EXPERIENCE THAT MOMENT OF FEAR AND INTENSITY.

TED: THE IMPACT ON U.S.

FOREIGN POLICY IN THESE 25 YEARS, 9/11 HAS HAD WHAT IMPACT?

>> WELL, IT HAS TRANSFORMED OUR COUNTRY, IN MANY WAYS TRANSFORMED THE WORLD, SO MAYBE HARD TO THINK BACK, BUT WE HAD A SERIES OF 9/11 OR THE WAR ON TERROR, YOU COULD SAY, HAPPENED AND MAYBE CAME TO A CLOSE.

SO WE HAD LARGE-SCALE INVASIONS OF AFGHANISTAN, AND IRAQ, WE RECONCEPTUALIZED THE PLACE IN THE WORLD FROM THE DOMINANT SUPERPOWER AND THE POST COLD WAR MOMENT, TO BEING FRIGHTENED, UNSURE, ACTING QUITE AGGRESSIVELY TO STOP TERRORISM AROUND THE WORLD, WITH COMPLEX SUCCESS AND FAILURE.

TED: THE TRAILINGS OF THOSE PARTICULAR RESPONSES, ARE WE STILL FEELING THEM?

DOES THE IRAN WAR HAPPEN RIGHT NOW WITHOUT 9/11?

>> CERTAIN THINK THE IRAN WAR COULD NOT BE HAPPENING THE WAY IT IS HAPPENING HAD THERE NOT BEEN 9/11 AND ALL THE COMPLEX ACTION.

IT'S THE U.S.

TOOK.

YOU KNOW, THE REGION HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED.

SYRIA IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PLAY PLACE, YOU KNOW?

200,000 IRAQIS WERE KILLED IN THE CONFLICT THAT CAME AFTER THAT 2003 INFLATION.

THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN RECONSTITUTED.

THE REGION HAS BEEN CHANGED.

SO MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED, SO IT IS ALMOST HARD TO LIST THEM BECAUSE OF THE IMPACT OF U.S.

POLICIES.

TED: IS THE U.S.

NOW A MORE ISOLATIONIST COUNTRY?

AFTER WHAT YOU MENTIONED BEFORE, THE RESPONSE TO 9/11 WAS NOT ISOLATION.

BUT WE SEEM TO BE MOVING OR HAVE MOVED IN THAT DIRECTION.

IT IS THAT A RESULT OF 9/11?

>> INTERESTING.

HARD TO KNOW EXACTLY BECAUSE, OF COURSE, THE INITIAL RESPONSE TO 9/11 WAS NOT ONCE ONE OF ISOLATION, IN FACT, IT IS THE ONLY TIME THAT NATO HAS USED THE ARTICLE 5 IDEA THAT THE ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL, SO YOU HAD SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF NATO PARTNERS IN AFGHANISTAN AND THE WORLD WAS REALLY WITH THE U.S.

IT WAS MOMENT THAT IS REALLY HARD TO IMAGINE NOW FOR THOSE THAT ARE NOT THERE.

THERE WAS ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TRUST AT THINK TIME.

PEOPLE WERE FLYING FLAGS.

THERE IS A SENSE OF UNITY THAT IS REALLY DIFFICULT NOW TO TALK TO YOUNGER PEOPLE LIKE WE DO AT THE UNIVERSITY ABOUT THE MOOD, WHAT IT FELT LIKE.

IT SORT OF TUMBLED INTO OTHER REALITY WE ARE LIVING NOW.

>> YOU SPEAK OF OTHER REALITIES RIGHT WINGED POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, WORLDWIDE, RELATIVELY CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL MOVEMENT HERE IN AMERICA WHICH IS VERY MUCH, I WOULD THINK, AMERICA FIRST, IN MANY WAYS, ISOLATIONIST IN TERMS OF THE WAY AMERICA SAW ITSELF IN THE PASSING.

ALL OF THESE THINGS FUELED BY 9/11.

>> SO MANY THINGS HAPPENED MAYBE NOT 9/11 PER SAY BUT THE WAY IN WHICH THE U.S.

RESPONDED THINK OF ANTI-IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT.

IN EUROPE, A LITTLE BIT LESS HERE, BUT IN EUROPE, YOU HAD MASS MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS.

MANY OF THEM DRIVEN OUT OF PLACES LIKE AFGHANISTAN, PARTICULARLY, SYRIA, EVEN IN PLACES LIKE IRAQ, BECAUSE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY DISPLACEMENT, FULLY HALF OF THE SYRIAN POPULATION WAS DISPLACED BY THE WAR THERE WHICH IS NOT A WAR RELATED TO 9/11 PER SAY BUT A CONFLICT THAT CAME OUT OF THE UNCERTAINTY THAT WAS BORN FROM THE U.S.

ACTIONS.

TED: BUT AS FAR AS WORLDWIDE, WE ARE SEEING SO MANY RIGHT WINGED, CONSERVATIVE, RIGHT-WINGERS IN GERMANY AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WORLD WAR II.

HAS THAT SHIFT MOVED THIS WAY?

IS 9/11 TOO FAR BACK TO SAY THIS COULD BE?

IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHAT IS CAUSAL.

CERTAINLY, WE SEE AROUND THE WORLD, THE RADICAL SHIFTS, THE U.S.

WAS REALLY THE DOMINANT SUPERPOWER IN THE WORLD, PRETTY MUCH EVER SINCE ECONOMICALLY, MILITARILY, IT IS MUCH MORE COMPLEX, FRAGMENTED, THE RISE OF CHINA DURING THAT TIME PERIOD WAS RATHER EXTRAORDINARY.

THE IDEA OF THE RUSSIAN ATTACK, THE LAND WAR IN EUROPE, IT IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE HARD TO CONCEPTUALIZE IN 2001.

A LOT HAS CHANGED.

THE CHANGES HAVE REVERBERATIONS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT 9/11 PRODUCED, BUT CERTAINLY, U.S.

ACTIONS AROUND THE WORLD, IN RESPONSE TO 9/11 CHANGED THE WORLD WE ARE IN.

TED: YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, HOW MANY PEOPLE ALIVE TODAY WERE NOT ALIVE FOR 2001.

HAS IT BECOME-- HAS IT BECOME A HISTORY LESSON MORE THAN SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE EXPERIENCED?

SOMETHING PEOPLE REMEMBER AND FEEL IN THEIR GUILT?

>> SO, THE DATA SHOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, WHO ARE 30 OR OLDER CAN TELL YOU WHERE THEY WERE WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED, BUT YOU GO TO A YOUNGER POPULATION, WHICH IS REALLY ALLOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY, FOR THEM, 9/11 IS SOMETHING THEY HAVE BEEN TACKED ABOUT, THEY HAD UNITS IN SCHOOL, BUT IT IS INTERESTING QUESTION FOR OUR COUNTRY, HOW SHOULD WE PROCESS 9/11?

TO A LARGE DEGREE, I THINK, PEOPLE LOOK AT THE 9/11 RESPONSE, PARTICULARLY THE POST 9/11 WAR WARS AS EXAMPLE OF LOSSES NOT JUST LOSSES ON THE BATTLE FIELD BUT IN WAYS IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT LIED TO THE PUBLIC.

WAYS IN WHICH A SURVEILLANCE STATE WAS CREATED AND A GENERAL SENSE OF UNCERTAINTY.

PEOPLE MAY NOT FEEL THIS, BUT THESE CONFLICT, THE WHOLE SECURITY AND PRATT US HAS COST OUR COUNTRY ENORMOUS AMOUNTS.

THE WARS ALONE HAVE COST US TO$4 TO$6 TO$10TRILLION.

THAT IS TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM OTHER THINGS AND CREATED AN ENTIRE SITUATION THAT FOLKS ARE LIVING THROUGH NOW WITH A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY IN.

THE QUESTION, I SUPPOSE, FOR YOUNGER AMERICANS, WHAT WAS IT WORTH?

HOW DO YOU PROCESS THAT NOW?

SOMEWHERE GREAT INFORMATION.

DANIEL ROTHENBERG, IT IS GOOD TO YOU HAVE HERE.

>> THANKS SO MUCH, TED.

THE 2-FINAL EPISODES OF "RESOLVE TO SOLVE WITH MILES O'BRIEN" AIR TONIGHT HERE ON ARIZONA PBS.

AMONG THE SUBJECTS EXAMINED IN TONIGHT'S PROGRAMS: THE COLORADO RIVER AND HOW FARMERS IN THE REGION ARE ADAPTING TO A SHRINKING WATER SYSTEM.

FOR EXAMPLE: AN AGREEMENT IN 2003 HAS LED TO MORE CONSERVATION IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY.

YOU THINK MUNICIPAL THINKS ARE GOING TO COME IN.

YOU THINK THE CITIES ARE GOING TO COME IN AND TAKE OUR WATER.

THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED IN 2003, AS IT BECAME CLEAR THE COLORADO RIVER COULD NO LONGER MEET ALL THE DEMANDS PLACED ON IT.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REQUIRED CALIFORNIA TO LIVE WITHIN ITS LEGAL ALLOCATION.

THE RESULT WAS THE QUANTIFICATION SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT OR QSA.

IT REQUIRES THE IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT TO TRANSFER WATER TO SAN DIEGO.

IN RETURN, THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY HELPS FUND CONSERVATION PROJECTS THAT ENABLE FARMERS TO USE LESS WATER WHILE KEEPING MUCH OF THE LAND IN PRODUCTION.

>> NOW I CAN PAY FOR SPRINKLER PIPE.

I CAN SPRINKLE.

I CAN USE LESS WATER TO GROW THE SAME CROP, AND THAT IS HOW THE WATER GETS CREATED.

TED: AND JOINING US NOW IS MILES O'BRIEN HE IS ODDLY ENOUGH THE HOST OF "RESOLVE TO SOLVE, WITH MILES O'BRIEN."

GOOD TO SEE YOU.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE.

IT WORKS OUT WELL.

SPEAK OF WORKING OUT WELL, OBVIOUSLY, GREAT SERIES.

GREAT WORK HERE.

NOT JUST ON WHAT WE SEE AS ISSUES AND CRISIS HERE AND THERE, BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING TO ADDRESS THESE PARTICULAR ISSUES.

AND WHAT WE JUST SAW, AND WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING HERE IN ARIZONA, OF COURSE, IS THE COLORADO RIVER, AND THAT SHRINKING SYSTEM.

TALK ABOUT INVESTIGATING WHAT IS GOING ON, AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING ABOUT IT.

>> WELL, TED, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR RESOLVE TO SOLVE.

YOU KNOW?

THIS SERIES WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WERE IT NOT FOR KIND PEOPLE IN THE PHOENIX AREA.

SUE IN PARTICULAR WHO SUPPORTED THIS IDEA OF GOING AFTER SOLUTIONS TO BIG PROBLEMS, BUY MUST ADMIT, THIS ONE STORY, THE COLORADO RIVER WAS PROBABLY THE HARDEST ONE WE TACKLED TO FUND GOOD SOLUTIONS.

YOU HAVE A RIVER, THAT 40MILLION PEOPLE DEPEND ON.

MILLIONS OF ACRES OF AGRICULTURE.

IT IS SHRINKING BY THE MINUTE.

EXACERBATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, A LONG-TERM DROUGHT AND THE SEVEN STATES THAT PUT THEIR STRAWS IN IT, AND USE IT CANNOT FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SHARE THIS SHRINKING PIECE OF WATER.

AND SO, IT WAS A CHALLENGE, I HAD HOPED AT THE END OF THE DAY, I WOULD HAVE A CONCRETE WAY OF OFFERING UP A SOLUTION, BUT I AM NOT SURE WE GOT THERE.

TED: WHAT WERE YOU HEARING FROM AND CONTINUE TO HEAR, I WOULD IMAGINE FROM WATER MANAGERS IN.

WE KNOW WE TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE A LOT HERE ON THE SHOW.

AND AGAIN, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE STATES COMING TO AGREEMENT WHICH THEY CANNOT SEEM TO DO.

WATER MANAGERS, HOW ARE THEY HANDLING ALL OF THIS?

>> WELL, IT IS ACUTE IN ARIZONA.

ARIZONA HAS RELATIVELY JUNIOR WATER RIGHTS.

THE CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT WHICH DELIVERS WATER TO CENTRAL ARIZONA AND IS RELATIVELY NEW TO THE SCENE COMPARED TO PLACES LIKE THE IMPERIAL VALLEY WHICH HAVE HISTORICALLY OLD SENIOR WATER RIGHTS WHICH GO WAY BACK TO THE EARLY 20th LATE 19th CENTURY.

AS A RESULT, THE CUTS WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS RECENTLY IMPOSITIONED BECAUSE THE STATES COULD NOT COME TOGETHER ON THIS WILL REQUIRE ARIZONA TO REDUCE ITS CONSUMPTION OF COLORADO RIVER WATER BY 27% INNOCENT NOW THAT IS A BIG NUMBER.

IT SOUNDS SCARY.

BUT WATER MANAGERS HAVE SEEN THIS COMING, AND IN FACT, HAVE AGREED IN ADVANCE TO SOME CUTBACKS ALONG WITH CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA.

THE CONCERN IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE TWO YEARS THIS PERIOD OF CUTS APPLIES.

AND WHAT IS HAPPENED IS THE UPPER BASIN STATES, COLORADO, WYOMING AND SO FORTH ARE DEALING WITH LESS SNOW PACK AND THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF A WARM, DRY WINTER.

THEY ARE SAYING, HEY, MOTHER NATURE IS CUTTNG US.

WE DON'T NEED TO CUT EVEN FURTHER.

MEANWHILE, FOLKS IN CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, WHO GET THE WATER FROM THE LAKE MEAD, HOOVER DAM HAVE NOT BEEN REALIZING THOSE KIND OF CUTS, BUT ARE HAVING TO CULT BACK NOW BECAUSE OF THESE PROBLEMS.

THEY ARE SAYING THE CULTS SHOULD GO ACROSS THE BOARD.

THAT IS WHERE THE RUB IS.

THERE IS NO REAL SOLUTION AT THIS STAGE.

TED: YEAH.

YEAH.

WHICH IS INTERESTING TO HEAR YOU SAY THIS BECAUSE THERE IS SO MANY SOLUTIONS ON THE EPISODES, THAT YOU PUT TOGETHER, INCLUDING, TONIGHT, WE ARE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT HOW FRACKING IS BEING USED FOR GEOTHERMAL, WHICH IS FASCINATING.

>> YEAH.

FRACKING IS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE OTHER F-WORD, IF YOU WILL.

PEOPLE HAVE A VISCERAL REACTION TO IT, BUT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS DRILLING DEEP INTO THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH TO HOT DRY ROCK, CREATING FRACTURES IN IT WHICH CREATE EVENTUALLY A RESERVOIR, PUMPING COLD WATER DOWN, HAVING IT HEATED UP BY THE HEAT, THE HOT NATURE OF THE SUB SURFACE OF THE EARTH, BRING IT BACK TO THE SURFACE, HOT ENOUGH TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY.

WHAT MAKES THE IRONY HERE, THAT ALL THE TECHNOLOGY THAT THE OIL INDUSTRY HAS DEVELOPED TO DO THESE HORIZONTAL DRILLS AND FRACKING SUITS FOR OIL AND GAS CAN BE APPLIED TO DO THIS, AND IT MAY MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR GEOTHERMAL WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY SUSTAINABLE, IT IS COMPLETELY GREEN.

IT IS 24-7 COULD OCCUR ALMOST ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET IF YOU CAN DRILL DOWN DEEP ENOUGH.

SO IT IS INTERESTING SOLUTION TO GREENING THE GRID IN A WAY WE HAVE NOT THOUGHT OF ABOUT.

>> ALWAYS ON POWER SOURCE AS WELL.

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THAT ONE.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE TALK ABOUT ONE OF THESE EPISODES, THAT FOCUSING ON THE BRAIN.

BECAUSE I KNOW, THIS WAS SPECIAL TO YOU.

IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, BUT THE IDEA OF REWIRING, REMAPPING THE BRAIN, IT IS NOT JUST AN IDEA, IT IS HAPPENING ISN'T IT?

>> YEAH, IT IS A SPECIAL EPISODE, I HOPE FOLKS WILL TUNE IN.

THE FIRST PART OF IT IS ON, IDEA OF USING ULTRASOUND.

FOCUSED ULTRASOUND, TO SORT OF MOD LATE OR SHAKE PORTIONS OF THE BRAIN, WHICH CAN TAKE AWAY THE NEURO PATHWAYS WHICH DRIVE ADDICTION T. THERE HAS BEEN SOME VERY INTERESTING PRELIMINARY DATA WHICH SHOWS THAT PEOPLE WITH ADDICTIVE TENDENCIES CAN BE RELIEVED OF THAT BY THIS FOCUSED ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUE.

THE SECOND ONE IS MORE PERSONAL STORY FOR ME.

IT IS THE USE OF CYCLEDELICS AS A PAIN THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHRONIC PAIN, IN PARTICULAR, THE KIND OF PAIN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS PHANTOM LIMB PAIN.

AS YOU KNOW, I AM AN ARM AMPUTEE.

I SUFFER FROM PHANTOM LIMB PAIN AS MANY DO.

I ACTUALLY ENROLLED IN A STUDY, WHICH WAS FDA-APPROVED, DEA-APPROVED, CLINICAL STUDY TO DETERMINE IF, SO-CALLED MAGIC MUSHROOMS, MIGHT ADDRESS SOMETHING AS DIFFICULT AS PHANTOM LIMB PAIN.

AND I WENT THROUGH THIS WHOLE STUDY AND I HAD SOME VERY SURPRISING THINGS HAPPEN TO ME.

IT IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THE PHANTOM LIMB PAIN ERASED IN.

THAT IS NOT QUITE WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ME WAS RATHER PROFOUND.

I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY THE REST OF THE EPISODE.

TED: VERY GOOD.

VERY GOOD.

BUT GOING INTO THIS, WERE YOU SKEPTICAL.

I WAS ACTUAL LAY LITTLE NERVOUS.

TED: I WOULD THINK SO.

I WOULD THINK SO.

>> I HAD NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE.

I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, GIVEN WHAT I READ ABOUT IT.

I HEARD THE EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS WHO PARTICIPATED.

AND THIS WAS IN A CLINICAL SETTING WITH, YOU KNOW, TWO TRAINED OBSERVERS IN THE ROOM WITH ME.

A DOCTOR DOWN THE HALL WITH MEDICINE THAT COULD HELP ME, IF I WAS HAVING SO-CALLED BAD TRIP.

I FIGURED I COULDN'T IMAGINE A SAFER PLACE TO TRY THIS IDEA.

AND I HAD READ THINGS LIKE MICHAEL POLLEN'S BOOK ABOUT REWIRING YOUR BRAIN AND THINKING ABOUT WAYS TO, YOU KNOW, SORT OF SMOOTH OUT THOSE NEGATIVE NEURO-PATHWAYS, THAT WE ALL HAVE IN SOME CASES THAT CAN LEAD TO PAIN.

I HAD PAIN IN SOMETHING I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE.

HOW BIZARRE IS THAT?

MAYBE MY BRAIN NEEDS TO BE RETRAINED OR MAYBE THOSE NEURO-PATHWAYS NEED TO BE SMOOTHED OUT TO TEACH IT WHAT THE BODY LOOKS LIKE NOW.

THAT IS THE UNDERLYING IDEA BEHIND THE STUDY.

WE ARE GOING TO LEARN MUCH MORE ABOUT THAT TODAY.

THE FINAL TWO EPISODES.

CONGRATS ON THE SERIES IN.

MUCH SUCCESS.

AND FASCINATING AND I AM SURE THEY HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL FOR TO YOU PRODUCE AS WELL AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOU TONIGHT.

MILES O'BRIEN, THANK YOU, SIR, WE APPRECIATE.

>> YOU ARE SO WELCOME, TED.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL ARIZONA IS CREATING SOCIAL EXPERIENCES FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES.

THOSE EXPERIENCES INCLUDE BALLET CLASSES, ALONG WITH ADAPTIVE "BASKETBALL" CLINICS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PHOENIX SUNS AND PHOENIX MERCURY.

TO LEARN MORE, WE WELCOME SUZY CAMPBELL AND CAMILLE RIDLEY FROM UCP OF CENTRAL ARIZONA.

GOOD TO HAVE YOU BOTH HERE.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

ADAPTIVE EXPERIENCES INITIATIVE.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS.

>> YEAH.

THE ADAPTIVE EXPERIENCES INITIATIVE WAS BORN, AND ROLLED OUT IN JANUARY OF 2025.

NOW WAS A RESULT OF SEVERAL EVENTS, THAT UCP HAD HOSTED OVER THE YEARS, ONE OF THEM BEING BREAKFAST WITH ACCESSIBLE SANTA FOR THE CHILDREN, AND THEN STARTING A PARTNERSHIP WITH STEVEN HUNTER IN THE STEVEN HUNTER YOUTH FOUNDATION, AND DOING ADULT AND ALL AGES BASKETBALL CLINICS, AND THEN WE STARTED TO HEAR FROM FAMILIES, THAT THEY WANTED TO HAVE ARTS AND CULTURE EXPERIENCES, AND ADDITIONAL RECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES, AND SO WE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT?

WE NEED TO PUT WHAT I CALL MORE MEAT ON THE BONES, MORE STRUCTURE AROUND THIS, SO THE INITIATIVE WAS IMPORTANT.

AND IT IS CONTINUING TO GROW AND BUILD MOMENTUM.

THE PORTFOLIO IS EXPANDING.

>> THAT IS FANTASTIC.

I AM FASCINATING BY THE IDEA OF LEARNING BALLET.

THE ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES LEARNING BILLION LAY.

THE MOVEMENT INVOLVED, MEETING WHERE THEY ARE?

>> EXACTLY.

YES.

IT WAS BEAUTIFUL INITIATIVE THAT WE DID WITH THE ADULT DAY PROGRAM AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS AWESOME TO SEE SOME OF THE MEMBERS STANDING ON THEIR TIPPY-TOES, RIGHT?

SITTING ANYWAY THEY COULD.

YOU KNOW, ABOUT 6 '3, A BIG GUY OUT THERE ON THE TIPPY-TOES AND LOVING IT.

IT WAS NEAT TO SEE THEM PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE THING.

TED: ARIZONA BALLET INVOLVED WITH THIS NOW?

>> THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH IT.

YES.

WE DO PARTNER WITH MANY DIFFERENT AGENCIES AND WE'LL DO SERIES OF 7 PARTS TYPICALLY.

SO WE HAVE DONE OUR-PARTED SERIES.

WE WILL BE THEN PARTNERING WITH ALL BODY STANCE IN THE FALL AND DOING AN ACTUAL, WELL, NOT AN ACTUAL, BUT AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS A ONE-TIME EXPERIENCE THAT WILL BE ADDED TO OUR CALENDAR.

THAT WILL BE ALL-AGES EXPERIENCES AND HOSTED ABILITY 360.

>> WOW.

SO MUCH GOING ON.

WITH THE ARTS, MOVEMENT, MUSIC, SELF-EXPRESSION, ALL OF THESE THINGS.

VERY BILLING.

>> THEY ARE VERY BIG.

YEAH.

YEAH.

AND SENSE OF COMMUNITY.

>> VERY BIG AS WELL.

YEAH.

REALLY BUILDING ON THE SOCIAL AND THE EMOTIONAL, LEARNING THE TECHNIQUES AND HEARING THE MUSIC.

IT JUST REALLY TRANSLATES IN SUCH AN AMAZING WAY.

TED: TALK TO ME ABOUT THE RESPONSE.

WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN AS FAR AS RESPONSE?

WELL, WE'LL STICK TO THE BALLET PART?

WE'LL FINAL FASCINATE?

WHAT ARE THEY FEELING?

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING AFTERWARDS IN WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY LOVE PULLING THE BELLYBUTTON AND SAY STRAIGHT, RIGHT.

IT MAKES THEM ALL GIGGLE EVERY TIME.

>> IT.

I GIGGLE MYSELF.

YEAH.

RIGHT.

YEAH, YOU WOMEN STILL THEN LEARNING THAT, YOU KNOW, BALLET IS STORYTELLING, SO ANY HAND MOVEMENT, RIGHT.

THIS MEANS PRINCESS, QUEEN.

THIS MEANS NO.

THEM LEARNING THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, AND SO, LEARNING WORDS THROUGH MOVEMENT.

IT IS HUGE FOR, YOU KNOW, POPULATION THAT MAY NOT HAVE THEIR OWN WORDS.

TED: YEAH.

YEAH.

THAT IS SO FASCINATING.

LET'S GET TO THE BASKET BALL CLING HERE'S.

PHOENIX SUNS, PHOENIX MERCURY INVOLVED HERE.

WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?

>> YEAH.

WE HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A YEAR-LONG PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PHOENIX SUNS PHOENIX MERCURY FOUNDATION AND IT HAD A COUPLE OF SEGMENTS TO KNIT.

THE FIRST SEGMENT WAS TO HAVE OUR ON SITE BASKETBALL CLINIC BE WHERE CLINICS WHICH RAN SEVEN WEEKS AND WE'LL RESUME A FINAL SEVEN WEEK SER RITZ IN THE FALL, WEATHER PERMITTING.

YOU KNOW.

IT IS ARIZONA.

TED: RIGHT.

RIGHT.

>> SO WITH THAT, WE PARTNERED WITH THAT PARTICULAR ENGAGEMENT WITH 360 COACHES TO COME ON SITE ONCE A WEEK FOR THE ADULT DAY MEMBERS AND WE HAD 43 PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAM.

AND THE COACHES DETERMINE THERE ARE SIX OF THEM THAT HAD REALLY PROGRESSED AND REALLY BUILD THEIR SKILLS, AND THAT SHOULD BE RECOMMENDED TO MOVE OVER TO ARIZONA SPECIAL OLYMPICS.

OH, THAT IS FANTASTIC.

>> YES.

TED: OH, THAT IS FANTASTIC.

>> YEAH.

THERE IS PARTICIPATION BY THE MEMBERS WHETHER THEY ARE ON THE COURT, AUDIENCE MEMBERS, CHEERING ON THE TEAM MEMBERS, SO EVERYBODY GOT TO GET INVOLVED.

TED: MY LAST QUESTION HERE.

WE ARE UNKING OUT OF TIME IN THE IDEA OF THIS COMMUNITY, PEOPLE GETTING THERE.

THAT IS HUGE, ISN'T IT?

>> IT IS.

IF I CAN TALK ABOUT OUR FALL BALL THAT IS COMING UP.

TED: QUICKLY, PLEASE.

>> OCTOBER THIRD.

TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY.

IS?

OPEN TO THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY AT LARGE IN THE PHOENIX AREA.

WE ARE GOING TO BE ABILITY 360 AND IT IS AMAZING.

TED: WHERE TO LEARN SENATOR.

>> UC CENTRAL AZ.ORG.

REGISTER.

WE ARE OPENINGS.

TED: ALL RIGHT.

WE GOT TO STOP RIGHT THERE.

GOOD YOU HAVE BOTH HERE.

CONTINUED SUCCESS AS WELL.

U GOT IT.

>> THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

TED:S THAT IT FOR NOW.

I AM TED SIMONS.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.

YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

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