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Arts for All Arts Kentucky (Previously VSA)

Arts for All Arts Kentucky (Previously VSA)
Arts for All Kentucky is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing inclusive arts and education programs for children, youth, and adults with disabilities, in addition to, professional development for artists ...

Bluegrass Area Sled Hockey (BASH)

Bluegrass Area Sled Hockey (BASH)
Bluegrass Adaptive Sled Hockey (BASH) provides a supportive atmosphere for individuals with and without disabilities to seek mental and physical well-being through the sport of hockey. BASH increases a player’s ...

Bowling Green Parks and Recreation

Bowling Green Parks and Recreation
Bowling Green Parks and Recreation offers a variety of programs for individuals with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.. Sports include bowling, softball, flag football, cheerleading, basketball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, goalball, ...

Boy Scouts

Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts Association in Kentucky encourages youth (boys and girls) of all ages and abilities to join their troops. Over 100,000 scouts all around the nation have disabilities. Inclusion ...

Cardinal Hill Easter Seals Adaptive Recreation

Cardinal Hill Easter Seals Adaptive Recreation
Adaptive recreation promotes healthy and active lifestyles with the goal to improve the overall quality of life for people with physical disabilities through education, exposure to adaptive equipment and recreation ...

Challenged Athletes Foundation

Challenged Athletes Foundation
It is the mission of the Challenged Athletes Foundation to provide opportunities and support to people with physical challenges so they can pursue active lifestyles through physical fitness and competitive ...

Friends for Michael, Inc.

Friends for Michael, Inc.
Friends for Michael, Inc’s mission is to encourage and support research that will help victims overcome their spinal cord injuries as well as providing grants and activities to improve the ...

Gathering Strength, Inc.

Gathering Strength, Inc.
The mission of Gathering Strength, Inc is to empower people with physically disabling conditions to maintain and improve their health and wellness by ensuring access the therapeutic physical activity ...

Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts
Girl Scouting is for every girl everywhere. Girls find a safe place to grow and share new experiences, learn to relate to others, develop values, and contribute to society. Girls ...

Hand-Cycling Club

Hand-Cycling Club
Hand-cycling creates cycling opportunities for wheelchair users or individuals with lower-mobility impairments. Central Kentucky resources can be obtained through contacting Paul Erway ...

Kendyl and Friends Foundation Inclusive Playgrounds

Kendyl and Friends Foundation Inclusive Playgrounds
Kendyl and Friends Foundation is non-profit organization for special needs children and adults fighting to live day to day with their disabilities. They have funded several fully accessible, inclusive playgrounds ...

Kentucky Appalachian Rural Rehabilitation Network (KARRN) State Park Travel Tips

Kentucky Appalachian Rural Rehabilitation Network (KARRN) State Park Travel Tips
KARRN has assessed parks across the state to see if they are wheelchair accessible using the ADA guidelines. For general tips and information about traveling to state parks you can ...

Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project

Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project
The KY Deaf-Blind Project is a technical assistance project serving individuals birth through 22 years of age who have difficulty using BOTH their vision and their hearing. Various activities, events ...

KSU Environmental Education Research Center (EERC)

KSU Environmental Education Research Center (EERC)
The EERC, managed by Kentucky State University, is a collaborative learning facility which connects students, faculty, and staff to the environment through meaningful learning activities. They are located in Pleasureville, ...

KY Congress on Spinal Cord Injury (KCSCI)

KY Congress on Spinal Cord Injury (KCSCI)
The mission of the Kentucky Congress on Spinal Cord Injury (KCSCI) is to gather individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and paralysis from around the commonwealth to join in the ...

Let’s Roll Kentucky

Let’s Roll Kentucky
Let’s Roll Kentucky is a peer to peer social club for those who use wheelchairs and those who love them which is based in Lexington and supported by Independence Place ...

Lexington Parks and Recreation

Lexington Parks and Rec logo
Lexington Parks and Recreation offers therapeutic recreation programs including archery, bowling, yoga, adaptive wheelchair sports, adult fitness, therapeutic day camps, cooking for the holiday’s programs, social activities, adapted aquatics, and ...

Lions Camp Crescendo

Lions Camp Crescendo
Lions Camp Crescendo located in Lebanon Junction, KY and is dedicated to the enhancement of the quality of life for youth, especially those with disabilities. They offer summer camp sessions ...

Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation

Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation
Louisville’s Metro Parks and Recreation offers a wide range of recreational activities for individuals with intellectual and/or physical disabilities, along with their friends and families through their Adaptive and Inclusive ...

Paralyzed Veterans of America

Paralyzed Veterans of America
The mission of the Paralyzed Veterans of America is to improve the quality of life of U.S.military veterans and others with spinal cord dysfunction through the use of advocacy, research, ...

Rog Badgett All-Inclusive Play Park

Rog Badgett All-Inclusive Play Park
The campus of Baptist Health Hospital in Madisonville, KY has houses an ADA fully-accessible play park. It is open for all children, but specifically adapted for those with disabilities ...

Shine Ministry: Southeast Christian Church

Shine Ministry: Southeast Christian Church
The Shine Ministry at Southeast Christian Church is based in Louisville, KY and provides a variety of programs, classes, and support services to allow every person of all ages a ...

Special Needs Camp of KY Inc.

Special Needs Camp of KY Inc.
SNCKI is a nonprofit organization in Owington, KY that hosts free week-long summer day camps for adults and youth aged 13 and up with intellectual disabilities. They also host events ...

SPINALpedia.com

SPINALpedia.com
SPINALpedia is a social mentoring network and video archive that allows the spinal cord injury community to motivate each other with the knowledge and triumphs gained from our individual experiences ...

The Buddy House

The Buddy House
The Buddy House is an education and activity center that seeks to enhance the quality of life for individuals with Down syndrome and their families by providing support, information, education, ...

The Center for Courageous Kids

The Center for Courageous Kids
The Center for Courageous Kids offers week-long summer camps for children with disabilities and/or serious illnesses, for free! Children can participate in fishing, swimming, dancing, and horseback riding. The center ...

The Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities

The Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities an independent, self-governing organization dedicated to advancing the inclusion of Kentuckians in all facets of community life. Their mission is to create systemic change ...