Hi Dave! Good to meet you. I'm an old-timer on the Q-List but haven't been around much lately. (Had trouble with my Quad-List related email acct!) Anyway, your message was the first I saw so... in jumping back in... I'm curious if you're looking for social and recreational activities *for* chair-using people or activities *with other* chair users.
What state and/or city do you live in? If it's activity and comeraderie *with* similarly abled people and if you live in or near a metropolitan area you should be able to contact a local Center for Independence (or nearby Center for Independent Living [a CIL]) to look for activities. If there's a large college/university nearby they likely have a Disabled Student Service office that might have some info and possibly activities available for non-students (sports, outings and just social). If nothing else it can be a resource for where to look further. If you're just looking for activity and recreation that's with or without others with disabilities, a local YMCA - YWCA might have things to do and people to meet. You can also consider volunteer work with some local organization using whatever ABILITIES you have rather than keeping a focus on a DISability. Neighborhoods, food banks, etc. can provide some interesting opportunities for meeting people, networking, honing social and work skills (in case work in your future). I'm a C5-6 quad since falling from a tree in 1983. I keep pretty busy with volunteer stuff with my neighborhood and now helping to start up a community garden (mostly phone calls, emails and face-to-face meets) plus I'm planning to branch into some more formal advocacy work for disability rights. In some situations I work on being a self-advocate trying to improve local access for myself and others by discussing ADA problems with business owners and tell them how they can fix things before "someone" decides to sue for non-compliance with federal ADA and state and local disability laws. If you tell me where you live I might have some suggestions or know of people who can make some. What are your main interests? Sports, internet/computer, group activities? Best of luck! --Tod On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Dave Krehbiel <[email protected]>wrote: > Does anybody know any resources which promote and encourage social and > recreational activities for people in wheelchairs?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks so much,**** > > ** ** > > Dave Krehbiel**** >
