CHANCES of Stone County is a non-profit organization made up of a community group of people dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), cerebral palsy, down syndrome, intellectual disabilities and brain injury.
These individuals are your children, family members or friends and deserve diverse and enriching opportunities to live, learn and succeed in our community. And CHANCES believes that a community that excludes even one member is no community at all.
Which is why the PGA Web.com Tour’s Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper is proud to have CHANCES of Stone County aboard again this year. The tournament has gifted almost $14 million in its 27-year history, and is poised to do so again.
About CHANCES of Stone County
CHANCES of Stone County was started in 2009 by Cathy Peterson who was one of our dear, dear aides that worked at Reeds Spring School. She worked hand-in-hand with a lot of children throughout her years and noticed that not only did the children need extra support but so did their families. CHANCES noticed that after graduating, a lot of the children had nowhere to go like most of the peers that were attending college and or starting in the work force. This is just one challenge that is faced.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone – Martina Navratilova.
CHANCES provides many scholarship for children/adults to attend Camp Barnabas, which is a week-long camp that affords the disabled a week of fun and excitement but it affords the families of the disabled possibly the only respite care affordable to them.
The organization also provides a $1,500 scholarship to a graduating senior with a developmental disability, to Barnabas Prep which is designed to help young adults with developmental disabilities move closer to reaching their full potential and to guide each student toward a meaningful life of independence.
And, a $1,500 scholarship to a graduating student in Stone County wanting to go into the Developmental Disability field. This is helping one of our future teachers to help our children.
CHANCES also provides M.A.D. Saturdays – Music, Art and Dance — which is open to the whole family where it tries to incorporate life skills with fun for the whole family. Presently, CHANCES has a licensed therapeutic music instructor, Morgan Robertson, who comes from Drury University in Springfield and presents a 1 ½ hour group music program. After a lunch break, they incorporate an Art or Dance event to close out the day.
On November 8, 2016 a Stone County Disability Board was approved. This is a political sub-division of the county, empowered to collect a county-wide property tax for services such as the establishment and/or operation of employment programs, residential facilities and/or related services for the care or employment of Stone County residents with developmental disabilities. This will be very exciting to see the changes that this will make for Stone County.
CHANCES’ vision is that Stone County residents and families of individuals with developmental disabilities feel that they can look upon CHANCES of Stone County as a central resource of information, referral and support for services and the developmental of opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities. The activities it does, brings the community together and allows families to be stronger together.
Without Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr. Pepper assisting CHANCES of Stone County to raise funds for these activities, CHANCES officials say they wouldn’t be able to continue. It is CHANCES’ hope to continue to find ways to serve our developmentally disabled and their families. PCCC’s help has made a tremendous difference for our children and families in Stone County!
CHANCES of Stone County
To help the non-profit directly, call 417-294-1207, email contact@chancesofstonecounty.org or visit chancesofstonecounty.org
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