Provide Scholarships for Adults with Disabilities

We announced the great news in our last report that SPARC's third clubhouse facility would open soon. 

That dream is now a reality, and we are able to provide day support services for more than 30 adults with disabilities in Virginia. As SPARC expands its reach, we are still aware that there are hundreds of people who could use our services, and we would provide them if we could.

For now, we continue to grow at a responsible pace and to apply our unique and proprietary financial model that allows us to provide services at ratios approaching 1:1 in three locations with operations every weekday. That means that a SPARC participant can attend a club facility every single weekday if they want.

New partners allow us to offer new programs like 10 week sessions of social or vocational classses at a fraction of the price others pay. And SPARC recipients engage in their community in the way they choose. Some people choose lifelong learning opportuities because who really ever grows tired of learing new things? Many participants work with outreach of their own by doing things like helping a local food pantry create bags for individual use.

And everyone loves music and art therapy. 

You can help us continue to offer new programs and scholarhips to adults who are living on a fixed income and wouldn't otherwise be able to afford to participate even at our greatly reduced fees of only $400 per month. 

Giving $100 provides a week of SPARC participation for someone who might not be able to attend. You can also sponsor smaller amounts and provide art supplies as well as contribute to the general scholarship fund that goes to people who need it most.

With your help, we opened our third facility this year. With your contiuing help, we can ensure that people who graduate from high school don't graduate to the couch as our Executive Director often says. Instead, participants get to visit their community every weekday, learn new things, help others, work in creative arts, and engage in socialization.

We can't think of anything we would rather be doing than helping our friends do all of those and more. Please help us today so we can continue to reach out to adults with disabilities who might otherwise be stranded at home.