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Provide Therapy for Disabled Children

New Directions believes that people who have disabilities deserve the same opportunities in life that others expect and enjoy. Our profoundly enriching travel programs expand the self-esteem of every traveler. Whole new worlds of understanding open for both participants and the general population. Through these unique programs, people with disabilities are increasingly understood, appreciated and accepted as important and contributing members of our world. Changing the way the world views disability— one adventure at a time.

To empower individuals with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities and autism as they recognize their strengths, contribute to their community and pursue their dreams.

Our mission is to provide equine-assisted activities for children with special needs.

OWLS seeks to create opportunity for Chicago’s most at-risk youth through scholarship, service, and the sport of lacrosse. Using inner-city schools and community centers as our access point, we provide developmentally positive options for students through: -Academic enrichment -Service-learning projects -Lacrosse programming We address our participant’s unique circumstances and individual short-term needs within a structured team environment and provide the long-term resources needed for their continued transition to a healthy quality of life.

The Playing With Heart Foundation’s mission is identify gifted youth athletes and help remove the financial barriers that often prevent them from playing year-round competitive sports at the highest level they are capable.

Healing With Horses Ranch provides trauma-informed equine-assisted services (adaptive riding, equine-assisted learning, and psychotherapy) to people of all ages—especially veterans, at-risk youth, and people with disabilities—with the goal of fostering resilience, independence, and emotional/physical healing through the horse-human relationship.

Our mission is to transform individual lives through the message of the Gospel and to heal the wounded heart, restore the broken heart and bring hope to the hopeless. This in return, will build healthier communities and stronger churches