CARE for Children held its annual Adaptive Ski Outing at Holiday Valley Ski Resort on Monday, February 16, with seven children in attendance. Each child was paired with one or more volunteer instructors and received expert instruction through the Holiday Valley Lounsbury Adaptive Ski Program, a chapter of Move United.

Pictured is Isaac Goro, age 10, along with volunteer Lounsbury Adaptive Ski Program instructors Carole Fierle (left) and Beth Slater (right). 

The Adaptive Ski Outing is one of the therapeutic recreation programs that CARE provides for children of all abilities. CARE’s recreation programs serve as an extension of traditional therapy that is provided in the school-setting by allowing children to practice skills in a community-based, inclusive environment while promoting social interaction, increased fine and gross motor activity, and the importance of lifelong activity and fitness.  

The ski outing was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Port Allegany, including lift tickets. Monroe St. Brick & Brew, Ellicottville, NY, donated pizzas. Todd Busses donated transportation to and from Ellicottville, N.Y. CARE’s therapeutic recreation program is funded in part from an annual grant from the United Way of the Bradford Area, Inc.

CARE for Children is a non-profit organization which provides pediatric therapy services, early learning programs, child safety and injury prevention initiatives, therapeutic recreation programs, and community outreach services for children of all abilities in McKean County, Pennsylvania and the surrounding region.