Special Needs Consortium

🚨 **Venue Update for MVP Adaptive Football!** 🏈💜💚💙💛

After closely monitoring the weather forecast and the current air quality, we've made the decision to move MVP: Michael's Victory Players Adaptive Football indoors to the Pine Community Center Gym.

While we always love being out on the turf, our top priority is providing a safe, comfortable, and fun experience for every athlete, family, volunteer, and community partner joining us.

The good news? Everything else stays the same!

🏈 All activity stations will be set up indoors.
💜 Athletes can participate at their own pace.
🤝 Plenty of opportunities to connect with youth and high school football players.
📸 Photos, smiles, and unforgettable memories are still on the agenda!

We're excited to welcome nearly athletes and their families for an afternoon celebrating football, friendship, and inclusion.

A huge thank you to our incredible community partners joining us:
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🏈 Steely McBeam
🍧 Kona Ice

📍 **Location:** Pine Community Center Gym
🕦 Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

We can't wait to see everyone on Saturday as we continue proving that every child deserves a chance to play, belong, and shine🌟

Join us for the summer SMART Program! This online epilepsy self-management program is for adults who continue to have seizures, despite treatment. The new group for adults meets online once a week for about an hour, for 8 weeks. The summer SMART program will meet for 8 sessions on Thursday's at 12:00PM beginning on August 6, 2026 and ending on September 24, 2026. This group is led by a nurse educator and a peer educator. Groups are about 10 people, so you’ll have a chance to get to know the participants you meet in your group. Topics covered include the relationship between epilepsy and stress, complications of epilepsy and minimizing those complications, problem solving, nutrition, physical health, the importance of social and advocacy support and much more.

To register, click here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sv/9p3ZRoB/SMARTprogram

For more information, contact Jordan Hinds at [email protected] / 412-322-5880

🌿🐞 Caregiver Connection Night 🐞🌿

Join The Friendship Factory and We Rock the Spectrum Butler County for a relaxing evening of connection, conversation, and community for caregivers - sponsored by Care Options for Kids.

🌷 Connect with fellow caregivers
🪻 Explore local vendors and resources
🐝 Children are welcome to play in the gym with supportive staff and volunteers

🌱 $5 per child to register. *Fee will be refunded upon arrival. If family/child is unable to attend & notice is not given prior to event, fee will be donated to The Friendship Factory to support future programming.*

Scan the QR code to register online OR visit www.werockthespectrumbutlercounty.com > BOOK NOW > Upcoming Events > Growing Together & Rocking into Summer: Caregiver Connection Event