Recreation and Leisure - Calling all adults and young adults who are seeking adventure and sporting activities!

Living Skills Center is a central data base that provides links to a variety of organizations and institutions for persons with disabilities.
http://livingskillscenter.org/Links.html

Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program

Wow! Now this is an exciting program and excellent opportunity for those in the San Francisco Bay area. Below is their mission statement retrieved March 4, 2009 from
http://www.borp.org/

Our Mission
"Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program (BORP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to improve the health, independence and social integration of people with physical disabilities through sports, fitness and recreation programs. At BORP, we believe that sports and recreation provide a path to greater achievement to which all people should have access, and we continually strive to make this a reality."

Here is a sampling of their cutting-edge programs

Adult Programs http://www.borp.org/programs/index.php

• Adaptive Cycling
• Goalball
• Power Scoccer
• Wheelchair Basketball

Youth Sports http://www.borp.org/programs/Youth_Sports.php

• Field and track
• Basketball
• Wheelchair basketball
• Benefits bosted
• independence
• teamwork
• strength
• goals
• friends
• traveling
• learning and improving

Impact - be sure to access BORP's impact page where you will read their impressive results their programs have on graduation rates and college completion! As well as why do BORP students succeed!
http://www.borp.org/about/Impact.php

Enviornmental Traveling Companions
http://www.etctrips.org/
This site is dedicated to opening up ourdoor adventures from water to the mountains for persons with special needs. On their home page their is a link for a free brochure in pdf format. I have highlited one of my favorite adventure trips that I am pleased to see they offer to our friends with special needs!
White water rafting on a number of major rivers. For example The South Fork American River, The Rogue River and the Colorado Grand Canyon! An end of the trip quote " a healthy exhaustion was on all our faces"! Visit their site for some outstanding pictures. Their pictures tell the whole story!

Reservations and information

To receive more information, to sign up for a trip, or to inquire about structuring a trip to meet the special needs of your group, please contact Davido Crow, ETC's River Program Manager.

Phone:
415-474-7662, ext 15
FAX:
415-474-3919
E-mail:

Write:
ETC, Davido Crow
River Program Manager,
Fort Mason Center
Building C
San Francisco, CA 94123

Addtional links from Environmental Traveling Companions
http://www.etctrips.org/website/links/links.html

Wilderness Inquiry - their mission retrieved March 4, 2009 from
http://www.wildernessinquiry.org/

"Our mission is to make adventure travel accessible to everyone, regardl
mission is to make adventure travel accessible to everyone, regardless of your age, background or ability. Our world class leaders put your safety and enjoyment first. We hope you will join the more than 250,000 people who have paddled and hiked with us since 1978."

This organization has the philosophy of true integration. They bring people together who have the same interest for having a wilderness adventure. They state that if you have a disability and you want to go on a trip where your disabiity is not the focus then they have the trip for you. They plan trips that involve persons with and without disabilities. They treat each person as equals and as a peer. They provide real outdoor adventures for everyone! Below read a couple neat testimonies taken directly from Wilderness Inquiry. Visit their site for some outstanding pictures!


"WI helped break down my belief that I will be sitting in my chair, watching others do what I no longer can do. I was afraid before the trip, that I was going to be the “disabled” needing lots of help. No one on this trip ever made me feel anything like that."

- Nancy D., 50, has paraplegia

"This was my first experience “hanging out” with people with such an array of disabilities...I was a bit uneasy at first...but I grew to love everyone on this trip—by the end of the trip, the disabilities had all but disappeared."

- Kelly B., 34, is nondisabled

http://www.wildernessinquiry.org/register/integrated_adventure.php

Everyone who seeks adventure and sports; the skies the limited with these resources!