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Download:
  
  • Kickball Team Information
      
  • Thank You Ladies Snowsports Camps: March 2010
      
  • Thank You Snowsports Camps: Feb-Mar 2010
      
  • Thank You Flyfishing: Oct 2009
      
  • Thank You Flyfishing: Sept 2009
      
  • Thank You Flyfishing: Sept 2009
      
  • Thank You Watersports: Aug 2009
      
  • Higher Ground - Fact Sheet
      
  • Program Highlights 2008
      
  • SVAS Annual Report 2008
      
  • Current Board of Directors
      
  • Frequently Asked Questions



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  • Sergeant Joe Danes, Testimonial Letter







  • a nonprofit organization located in Ketchum, Idaho. In 1999, SVAS incorporated and became a chapter of Disabled Sports USA. This partnership enabled us to network with 80 of the top adaptive sports programs in the country. Executives and program directors from these organizations provided industry advice and insight, and helped us launch high-quality programs that are safe, fun, and have measurable outcomes.

    Since our first days of helping people learn to ski, we've remained passionate about improving the lives of people with disabilities through sports and recreation. To fulfill this mission, we help people develop the self-confidence and physical skills they need to enjoy the freedom and thrills of participating in all sorts of sports and recreational activities. We also remain committed to including families, volunteers, and the local community in our efforts.

    SVAS is consider one of the nation’s most effective and innovative adaptive sports organizations. Our winter and summer programs attract youth, adults, veterans, and adaptive sports superstars from around the country. Our children's programs reach youth of all ages with varying types of disabilities. We provide more than 20,000 hours of sports and recreational activities each year. We’re the top pick of many military hospitals and veteran service organizations around the country who look for quality programs to help restore and rehabilitate the men and women who have been severely wounded while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter who we’re serving, we strive to offer a fun and safe experience that will having lasting and meaningful impact.

    CORE VALUES

    • Building self-confidence, self-esteem, competitive spirit, and life skills through sports and recreation that participants adopt into their everyday lives and share with others.

    • Providing opportunities to overcome perceived limitations and boundaries.

    • Providing trained and passionate staff and volunteers who are committed to providing professional instruction in a safe, comfortable, and supportive atmosphere to create a caring community and a fun experience for all participants.

    • Working with other adaptive sports programs to increase public awareness of the capabilities of people with disabilities.

    • Offering financial assistance to people with disabilities who would not otherwise be able to afford sports and recreational experiences such as those we offer.

    • Operating an organization grounded in nonprofit excellence, fiscal responsibility, and disabled best practices, and refining our objectives in a manner that best serves people with disabilities and our community.
    SUPPORT

    In fiscal year 2008-2009, your generosity allowed us to manage six major programs with five full-time staff, two part-time staff, 15 seasonal staff, and 230 volunteers. Our budget was $1.10 million. During this period 80% of all donations went toward programs, providing more than 25,000 participation hours. Just 10% of donations went toward administration and 10% toward fundraising. Our proposed fundraising goal for 2009-2010 is $1,750,000.. Remarkable!

    We continue to add depth to all our programs, ensuring we provide true therapeutic components to our sports and recreational activities. We're putting your donations to work!

    It is generous donations from people like you that provide us the means by which we can offer programs free to participants in need, or subsidize fees with need-based scholarships. We also received generous contributions from foundations and corporations from around the world! Thank you all for your support!




    Our Board of directors, staff, and incredible volunteers are passionate about improving the quality of services we provide to people with disabilities. Blaine County is growing at a rate of three percent a year. Most likely, this means the number of people with disabilities will increase proportionately. We are preparing to accommodate this growth. Also, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to wound service members. SVAS wants to help rebuild the lives of these brave young men and women who have honorably served our country. To that, we’re looking at innovative ways to improve the effectiveness of our programming and to increase programming capacity.

    Whether it’s a child in our day camp or a wounded service member attending a snowsports camp, SVAS is committed to enriching the lives of these people. This means using sports and recreation to build physical skills, confidence, independence, and courage, but also to inspire belief in self and hope. If we are successful, our participants will have improved relationships with their family, peers, and community; they will perform better at work and school; they will improve their health and fitness; they will cope with stress better; and they will have fun learning sports and recreational activities they can enjoy for a lifetime. Our future plans for this year include:

    • Become known by military hospitals and veteran service organizations as the single best adaptive sports organization in the nation serving wounded warriors with traumatic brain injuries, blindness, visual impairment, and PTSD.
    • Offer more sports and social activities to our local Special Olympics athletes.
    • Improve the quality of the adaptive sports industry by sharing research and protocols with military care units, universities, research hospitals, and other adaptive sports organizations.
    • Raise $1.75 million to continue offering free programs to every participant as well as doubling the therapeutic efforts needed to increase the depth of wounded warrior programming.
    • Double the size of the volunteer leadership program to engage more of our 325 volunteers.