Meet The Location Partners Behind UNIFIED Technology Centers
Building More Than Locations — Building Opportunity, Belonging + Community
A UNIFIED Technology Center begins with a physical space.
But what grows inside that space can become so much bigger.
Across San Diego + Imperial Counties, UESL Location Partners are opening their doors so that individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities can have greater access to technology, friendship, teamwork, skill development + meaningful community connection.
The UNIFIED Esports League is a technology + life skills program providing social + emotional growth for the IDD community. Helping individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities build confidence, friendships, + real-world skills in a safe, coach supported environment.
As a San Diego Regional Center-approved vendor, UESL serves individuals ages 8 through adult at locations throughout San Diego + Imperial Counties. Our programming combines gaming, technology exploration, individualized goals, health + wellness, structured social opportunities + the experience of belonging to a real team.
Our Location Partners help make that access possible.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A UNIFIED LOCATION PARTNER?
A UNIFIED Location Partner does more than provide a room.
They help create a local access point for connection, growth + opportunity.
By welcoming a UNIFIED Technology Center into their space, Location Partners help bring structured technology + life skills programming closer to the families who need it.
That can mean shorter drives for parents + guardians, new social opportunities for people who may have struggled to find their community, greater exposure to technology + a place where an individual’s interests are treated as strengths that can become pathways toward growth.
UESL brings the program structure, coaching, curriculum, technology, team experience + individualized support. Our Location Partners provide something equally valuable: a place for those opportunities to take root within the communities they serve.
Together, UESL + our Location Partners can transform an available space into a place where someone makes a friend, discovers a new interest, learns to navigate winning + losing, practices communication, explores technology, takes on leadership + realizes:
I have a team here. I belong here.
MEET OUR CURRENT UNIFIED LOCATION PARTNERS
POWAY — ABRAXAS HIGH SCHOOL
UNIFIED Technology Center: Poway
Location Partner: Abraxas High School — Poway Unified School District
Address: 12450 Glen Oak Road, Poway, CA 92064
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: UNIFIED Eagles
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
Poway holds a special place in the UNIFIED story as UESL’s flagship Technology Center.
Abraxas High School offers a smaller, flexible + personalized educational environment with a mission centered on preparing young adults to become responsible, caring + contributing members of society. Its campus also houses Poway Unified School District’s Adult Transition Program for young adults with developmental disabilities.
As a UESL Location Partner, Abraxas helps provide a space where those values can continue through technology, gaming, social connection + individualized growth.
At Poway, the UNIFIED Eagles have helped demonstrate what can happen when gaming becomes a vehicle for structured teamwork, friendship, communication, healthy habits, leadership + personal achievement.
What began at one center has helped inspire a growing network of UNIFIED teams throughout San Diego + Imperial Counties.
RAMONA — RAMONA HIGH SCHOOL
UNIFIED Technology Center: Ramona
Location Partner: Ramona High School — Ramona Unified School District
Address: 1401 Hanson Lane, Ramona, CA 92065
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: UNIFIED Cosmic Dogs
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
For families living farther inland, access to specialized IDD programming can sometimes mean adding significant travel to an already busy family schedule.
Our Location Partner at Ramona High School helps bring that opportunity closer to home.
Ramona High School’s mission centers on preparing students for life in a diverse global community within an innovative, safe + nurturing environment, supported by collaboration between students, families, staff + the surrounding community.
Through our shared work in Ramona, the UNIFIED Cosmic Dogs have a hometown team, familiar coaches + a consistent place where clients can build relationships while exploring the things they love.
That is what locally accessible programming can look like: bringing opportunity into the communities where IDD individuals + their families already live.
SAN MARCOS — TERI CAMPUS OF LIFE
UNIFIED Technology Center: San Marcos
Location Partner: TERI Campus of Life
Address: 555 Deer Springs Road, San Marcos, CA 92069
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: UNIFIED Suns
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
Few locations demonstrate the power of aligned missions as clearly as TERI Campus of Life.
TERI provides lifelong learning, specialized services + family support for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. Its San Marcos Campus of Life creates opportunities centered around learning, creativity, employment, wellness + belonging.
As a UESL Location Partner, TERI helps create another avenue for IDD individuals to explore their interests, develop skills + connect with their peers through technology.
The relationship has also created opportunities extending beyond everyday programming. The TERI Campus of Life has welcomed the larger UNIFIED community for league-wide experiences at The Bornemann Theatre, allowing IDD gamers to move from their regular team environment onto a professional stage surrounded by cheering families + supporters.
The UNIFIED Suns demonstrate what can happen when UESL + a Location Partner bring their strengths together to create more opportunities for the IDD community.
EL CAJON — ST. MADELEINE SOPHIE’S CENTER
UNIFIED Technology Center: El Cajon
Location Partner: St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center
Address: 2119 East Madison Avenue, El Cajon, CA 92019
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: UNIFIED Flying Squirrels
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
For decades, St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center has worked to educate + empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Its programming provides opportunities across practical skill development, employment services, communication, adaptive computer training, arts, gardening, aquatics + other experiences designed to support greater independence and quality of life.
That makes St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center a meaningful UESL Location Partner for the UNIFIED Flying Squirrels.
UESL brings gaming + emerging technology into an environment already centered around discovering abilities, developing skills + creating opportunities for adults with IDD.
Together, UESL + this Location Partner demonstrate that innovation, inclusion + meaningful skill development can exist side by side.
EL CENTRO — BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
UNIFIED Technology Center: El Centro
Location Partner: Booker T. Washington Elementary School — El Centro Elementary School District
Address: 223 South First Street, El Centro, CA 92243
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: UNIFIED Bears
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
Opening a UNIFIED Technology Center in El Centro marked an important step in expanding UESL programming into the Imperial Valley.
Booker T. Washington Elementary emphasizes learning, caring for one another, preparedness, open-mindedness + positivity.
Through this Location Partnership, the El Centro Elementary School District + Booker T. Washington Elementary have helped create a local space where individuals with IDD can access gaming, technology + life skills programming within their own community.
For Imperial County families, local programs matter.
Every new Location Partner can help reduce geographic barriers while giving more individuals opportunities to build routines, friendships, confidence + skills close to home.
Fittingly, the El Centro team proudly carries its local identity as the UNIFIED Bears.
RANCHO BERNARDO — RANCHO BERNARDO HIGH SCHOOL
UNIFIED Technology Center: Rancho Bernardo
Location Partner: Rancho Bernardo High School — Poway Unified School District
Address: 13010 Paseo Lucido, San Diego, CA 92128
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: UNIFIED Arctic Foxes
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
Rancho Bernardo High School emphasizes a healthy, positive environment, empowering students + creating strong connections between families, school + community.
As a UESL Location Partner, the campus also provides a space where the UNIFIED Arctic Foxes can come together to explore technology, build friendships + work toward individualized goals.
Here, success may be loud — winning a match, celebrating with a teammate or mastering new technology.
It may also be wonderfully quiet.
Choosing to join a group activity. Asking someone to play. Staying with a challenging task a little longer. Recovering after losing. Offering encouragement to someone else.
A supportive Location Partner gives those moments somewhere to happen consistently — until individual moments begin becoming real-world skills.
SAN YSIDRO — SAN YSIDRO MIDDLE SCHOOL
UNIFIED Technology Center: San Ysidro
Location Partner: San Ysidro Middle School — San Ysidro School District
Address: 4345 Otay Mesa Road, San Diego, CA 92154 — Room 802
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: In development + selected with UNIFIED clients
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
The opening of San Ysidro expanded access to UNIFIED programming for families in San Diego’s South Bay.
The San Ysidro School District centers its mission around a high-quality multicultural learning environment that promotes academic excellence, social responsibility + students’ physical and emotional well-being.
As a UESL Location Partner, San Ysidro Middle School is helping create another place where individuals with IDD can experience connection, exploration + growth.
And this new UNIFIED team has been given an important job:
Creating its own identity.
At UESL, team names + mascots are more than branding. San Ysidro clients are being invited to participate in choosing theirs, creating opportunities to practice communication, collaboration, creativity, listening + shared decision-making.
Eventually, there will be a mascot.
There will be jerseys.
There will be competitions, memories, inside jokes + traditions.
But first, there is the experience of building something together.
That is where belonging starts.
COMING SOON:
OUR NETWORK OF LOCATION PARTNERS CONTINUES TO GROW
Every community deserves opportunities for IDD individuals to connect, grow, explore their interests + discover what they can accomplish with the right support around them.
That is why UESL continues working with new Location Partners throughout San Diego County to establish additional UNIFIED Technology Centers.
COMING SOON: CHULA VISTA — CHULA VISTA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
Future UNIFIED Technology Center: Chula Vista
Location Partner: Chula Vista Christian College
Address: 2720 Olympic Parkway, Chula Vista, CA 91915
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: To Be Created
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
South Bay is an important part of UESL’s continued expansion.
With Chula Vista Christian College joining the growing network of UESL Location Partners, another UNIFIED Technology Center will help expand access to technology + life skills programming for individuals with IDD in southern San Diego County.
Like other new UNIFIED locations, future clients will have the opportunity to help develop a team identity that belongs to their community.
A new location means more than another pin on a map.
It means another group of IDD gamers receiving the opportunity to say:
This is our team.
COMING SOON: CARLSBAD — MIRACOSTA COLLEGE TECHNOLOGY CAREER INSTITUTE
Future UNIFIED Technology Center: Carlsbad
Location Partner: MiraCosta College — Technology Career Institute
Address: 2075 Las Palmas Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92011
UNIFIED Team + Mascot: To Be Created
UNIFIED Client Services: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
Our coming Carlsbad Technology Center represents another exciting opportunity to grow access in North County.
MiraCosta College’s Technology Career Institute in Carlsbad provides career-focused education + workforce development opportunities in a technology-centered learning environment.
As a future UESL Location Partner, this setting creates an exciting backdrop for a program built around exploration.
At UESL, clients may engage with PCs, consoles, VR, simulation, coding, graphic design + other technologies based on their goals, interests + individualized program structure.
Those experiences can create an important progression:
An interest can become a skill.
A skill can build confidence.
And confidence can change what someone believes is possible for their future.
WHAT EVERY LOCATION PARTNER HELPS MAKE POSSIBLE
Look across our network of Location Partners and the spaces may appear very different.
A high school.
A middle school.
An elementary campus.
An organization dedicated to supporting the IDD community.
A college technology institute.
Different communities. Different buildings. Different histories.
But inside every UNIFIED Technology Center, the goal remains consistent.
UESL provides individualized, coach-supported opportunities for individuals with IDD to:
Build confidence
Make real friendships
Practice communication + teamwork
Explore gaming + technology
Develop problem-solving skills
Navigate winning, losing + emotional regulation
Practice leadership + collaboration
Participate in healthy movement + wellness routines
Work toward individualized goals
Experience the pride + belonging of being part of a team
Our 1:3 coach-to-client ratio helps provide the individualized support clients need, while each client’s Individualized Technology Education Plan (ITEP) helps connect their interests + technology experiences with meaningful personal goals.
Our Healthy Gamer movement breaks reinforce another important part of the UNIFIED experience: Healthy Body + Healthy Mind = Good Gamer.
Technology may help bring clients through the door.
But friendship, confidence, belonging + progress are what we hope they carry back out into the world.
And every Location Partner helps give those experiences a place to happen.
COULD YOUR ORGANIZATION BECOME THE NEXT UNIFIED LOCATION PARTNER?
UESL is continuing to grow.
And we are looking for future Location Partners who believe their communities deserve more opportunities for inclusion, connection, technology education + meaningful skill development.
Schools, colleges + mission-aligned organizations can help create those opportunities by exploring what it could mean to become a UNIFIED Location Partner.
You do not need to become an esports expert.
You need a willingness to help create access.
UESL brings the program structure, coaching, technology-centered curriculum, individualized programming + team experience.
Together, we can explore how your location + the UNIFIED program could create new opportunities for the IDD community you serve.
Becoming a UESL Location Partner can help:
Expand local IDD services + resources
Bring structured social + recreational opportunities into your community
Create meaningful programming for individuals ages 8 through adult
Increase access to gaming + emerging technologies
Give individuals with IDD a safe place to build friendships
Connect families to a larger UNIFIED network across San Diego + Imperial Counties
Create opportunities for confidence, communication + real-world skill development
Transform available space into a place of learning, belonging + possibility
Most importantly, your organization can help create a place where someone who has been searching for their people finally finds them.
HELP US BUILD THE NEXT UNIFIED TEAM
Maybe the next UNIFIED Eagles, Cosmic Dogs, Suns, Flying Squirrels, Bears, Arctic Foxes — or an entirely new team that has not even chosen its name yet — could begin at your location.
It starts with a conversation.
If your school, college or organization is interested in becoming a Location Partner and helping expand access to technology + life skills programming for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, we would love to hear from you.
UNIFIED Client Services
Phone: (619) 354-0733
Email: services@unifiedesl.com
Website: www.unifiedesl.com
LET’S LEVEL-UP TOGETHER!
Because when Location Partners share their space, resources + belief in what individuals with IDD can accomplish, we do more than open Technology Centers.
We open doors to friendship.
We open doors to confidence.
We open doors to skills.
We open doors to belonging.
We open doors to what comes next.
And we are ready to open the next one together.
