about taasc
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About TAASC• Founded as part of Recreation
Unlimited in early 1990s• 2006 – secured 15-year lease at
Scioto Jeffery Park• 100% privately funded through
fees, donations, small grants and Winter Sports Challenge fund raiser
• Serves people with significant disabilities that limit their participation in adventure sports
• Serve people of all ages• Contributes to health and
wellness
Sailing is at Alum Creek Sailing Club every Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.
SailingVeterans at Alum Creek Reservoir
Small boat sailing at Twin Lakes
He built our confidence in sailing, again. -- Accident Survivor
Cycling
It was hard to buy a bike this expensive, but today our 7 year old rode 5 miles around the neighborhood with a huge smile on her face!
TAASC provides or links people to cycling equipment evaluations. These are scheduled on an individual basis. Bicycles are available for loan.
•TAASC is a local chapter of AMBUCS.•TAASC –AMBUCS Chapter has trained about 50 therapists and others to conduct assessments to find the right model AmTryke for a person.•In its first year, TAASC-AMBUCS has assisted 22 children and their families to identify funding to own an AmTryke.
Twin Lakes & O’Shaughnessy Reservoir
Something our whole family can do together. -- a Dublin Family
Tuesday evening lessons in June, July, and August
Events open to people with and without disabilities:•Open paddling on Thursday evenings• Kids Kayaking one Saturday a month•Birding by Kayak in cooperation with Columbus Audubon
Special groups are scheduled by arrangement.
TAASC encourages community groups to kayak on Thursday evenings
About 50 events are held each season.
TAASC gave me back my life.
- Spinal Cord Injury Survivor
Water Skiing is held during the Water Sports Weekend, a Wounded Warrior Event.
We are extremely impressed and truly touched by the amazing opportunities for our son and others to experience all that life has to offer!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Fishing reduces stress for veterans with PTSD.
Alpine skiing and snow boarding lessons at Mad River Mountain and Snow Trails Resort on Saturdays during January and February. Other times by arrangement.
Thank you TAASC, for using the proverbial foam and duct tape to turn our lives with Spina Bifida upside down.
•Partnership with Greater Columbus Rowing Association•Saturday from 8 AM – 10 AM at Griggs Reservoir Boat House•Must be 18 years of age and able to be on the water alone in a boat
TAASC is affiliated with the US Paralympics providing community sports to youth with physical disabilities, blindness and other disabilities.
TAASC receives funding for year round adventure sports for veterans with disabilities. Disabilities do not have to be service-related.
TAASC is committed to creating pathways to leadership for
people with disabilities.
No Boundaries!
Training ModelTAASC provides
individualized assessments, skills training, and adaptive equipment
Family InvolvementTAASC involves the whole
family so they will know how to support the person with a disability to enjoy the sport anywhere
Inclusion TAASC is committed to
having people with/without disabilities, enjoying the same activities in the same locations
Collaborations• Training/consultation in communities
in Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia• Columbus Ski Club• Paddle Ohio• Greater Columbus Rowing
Association• Mad River Mountain and Snow Trails • Wounded Warrior Project since 2005• Annual grant since 1996 from
Buckeye Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America
• Chiller Ice Rinks – TAASC adaptive equipment is located at four ice rinks. Staff are trained to assist customers with disabilities.
TAASC = A leader and innovator in Adaptive Adventure Sports
• TAASC is one of the largest affiliates of Disabled Sports USA
• TAASC volunteers are skilled and certified in adaptations
• TAASC owns over 100 pieces of adaptive equipment
• Students from Ohio State University College of Engineering (Mechanical) and School of Occupational Therapy create solutions through equipment
• 2009 project to enable a person with incomplete quadriplegia to paddle a kayak independently = 2nd PLACE in the Honda Innovation competition
• 2010 transfer chair from wheelchair to kayak level = 1st PLACE
Safety a HIGH PriorityEncouraging volunteers to secure
certification as sports and safety instructors
Certified volunteers: 20 Professional Ski Instructors of
America (7 with disabilities) 7 American Canoe Association
Instructors 1 Ohio Boater Ed Course Instructor 20+ completed Ohio Boater Ed
course Sailing Captain (Basic Keelboat, Coast
Cruising, Bareboat Charter, US Sailing Association, US Coast Guard, physical disability)
Multiple first responders, First Aid, and CPR
• Over 350 volunteers: board members, instructors, equipment managers, program leaders, programs staff including people with disabilities in key leadership and teaching positions
I can do anything!If I can do this,