
Haven International Center for Special Education (Haven)
Haven will be a center of excellence for training of families, teachers, paraprofessional and practitioners.
Haven International
Phone Number: 011 233 242649617
Email: info@haven-international.org


The Haven Team shares their story
subsidiary of MyGOAL with the vision of training and development of individuals Autism and other intellectual disabilities.
Making an impact in Ghana in a documentary titled Managing Autism and Other Intellectual Disability in Ghana: The Haven Initiative
Special Needs Resource Drive... ... We Need Your HELP!
The vision is to provide resources such as:
- Current special education information through library media, professional journals, and video/DVDs.
- access to on-line research relevant to educators and parents responsible for children and youth with disabilitues
- Lending library to supply extensive collection of professional boks, in-service training resources, activity books, videos/DVDs and instructional

Our Haven Professional and Caregivers Trainings
February 2012
Target Audience: Teachers/Health Professionals, Parents/Caregivers
Location: Accra
Collaborators: APF, AwaaWaa2, AACT
Facilitator: Genevieve Kumapley, Ellen Osei,, OTR/L, Betsy Botts,EdD
November 2012
Target Audience: Teachers/Health Professionals, Parents and Caregivers
Location: Accra
Collaborators: Ghana Education Services- Special Education Unit, Dr. Badoe, Chief of Neurology-Ghana; AwaaWaa2, AACT
Facilitator: Genevieve Kumapley PharmD, Barbie Zimmerman-Bier, MD, Lorell Levy, Ed.D; Ellen Osei, MS, OT
April 2013
Target Audience: Teachers/Health Professionals
Location: Akosombo; Accra
Collaborators: Education Solutions 4 Kids &Corricreche (Akosombo)
Facilitator: Genevieve Kumapley, PharmD
June 2013
Target Audience: Teachers/Health professionals/Parents
Location: Akosombo& Accra
Collaborators: New Horizon School, AACT (Accra); Education Solutions 4 Kids & Corricreche (Akosombo)
Facilitators: Ellen Osei, MS, OT/ Dr. Debra Tupe, OT, Columbia University; Ade Otubanjo, SLP, Speech Pathologist
August 2013
Target Audience: Health Care professionals/Teachers/Caregivers
Location: Accra, Capecoast, Winneba
Facilitators: Dr. Genevieve Kumapley; Dr.Lorell Levy; Dr. Gloria Bonilla- Santiago, Jerlyn Witherspoon
March/April 2014
Target Audience: Teachers, Parents/Health Professionals
Location: Accra
Facilitators: Drs. Jerry Petroff , Richard Blumberg, Genevieve Kumapley, Michele Naples
April 2015
Target Audience: Teachers/Parents/Health Professionals
Location: Accra /Ghana Education Services
Facilitators: Dr. Genevieve Kumapley, Ebenezer Badoe, Adegboyega Otubanjo SLP, Ellen Osei, MS OTR/L, Jerlyn Witherspoon, BA
April 2016
Target Audience: Teachers/Parents/Health Professionals
Location: Accra- Haven Teachers/ASOG
Facilitators: Dr. Genevieve Kumapley, Adegboyega Otubanjo, SLP-CCC; Ellen Osei, OTR/L, Shawn Jacobs, MA, Terri Matthews

Professional Advisory Team Members
Dr. Genevieve Kumapley
Rebecca Zegas, BCBA
Dr. Lorell Levy
Ellen Osei
Dr. Michele Naples
Jennifer Dordor Brock, Program Director
Ade Otubanjo
Shawn Jacobs, M.A
Dr. Jerry Petroff
Jerlyn Witherspoon
Dr. Mary Rose Merola