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Each year CVS Caremark awards Community Grants to non-profits serving children of all abilities. We are proud to partner with these community groups who in turn help us achieve the mission of CVS All Kids Can
- enabling children to Learn, Play and Succeed in life. Visit CVS Caremark's website to learn more about the CVS Caremark Community Grants.
| COURAGE CENTER
Courage Center is a national rehabilitation center for people with physical
disabilities, brain injuries, speech or vision impairments, or hearing
loss. They offer comprehensive, lifelong services to people of all ages,
from infants to seniors. Founded in 1928 as the Minnesota Society for
Crippled Children and Adults, their mission is to empower people with
physical disabilities to reach for their full potential in every aspect
of life. They are guided by the vision that one day, all people will
live, work, learn and play in a community based on abilities not disabilities.
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Heartland
Human Relations Association
The organization provides a library of disability-specific materials,
support groups, workshops, equipment exchange, and scholarships for exercise
programs. Also, they counsel housing discrimination cases and help reinforce
ADA compliance, process and match people for shared housing requests and
zip trips for needing transportation working through volunteers. |
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| American Association
of Adapted Sports Programs, Inc. (AAASP)
The organization was founded to fill a void for student-athletes with
physical disabilities or visual impairments. This void is the accessibility
to interscholastic sports teams and opportunity to reap the benefits
that are associated with such participation. These benefits include
increased self-esteem, better classroom performance, peer-acceptance,
increase in overall health, and overall better quality of life. To date,
AAASP is the only organization that operates within the school system
and in a dual governance alliance with a high school association to
provide interscholastic sports for this population.
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| Children’s Theraplay
Foundation, Inc.
The Children’s Theraplay Foundation is a nonprofit outpatient rehabilitation
clinic for children with special needs. Their goal is to provide equine-assisted
physical and occupational therapy to special needs children. They are
dedicated to providing services to any child who may benefit, regardless
of their family’s ability to pay.
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| Southwest Human Development
(SWHD)
SWHD is a nonprofit educational and human services organization founded
in 1981, which provides comprehensive services to young children and
their families who face challenges related to health, child abuse and
neglect, mental health, poverty and disabilities. The mission of SWHD
is to create a positive future for young children. The Assistive Technology
Training and Resource Center offers services for children with disabilities,
which includes workshops and training, support for professionals and
school districts, lending libraries, and support assistive technology
users designed to increase independence within the school environment.
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| Aspergers, Autism,
Information & Recreation Organization (A.A.I.R.O.)
The goal of this project is to pare up a typical child with a special
needs child and do activities with. The ideas is for both to understand
how they think, view things around them, and to really learn about each
other and their environment, but most importantly to understand the
friendship is not limited. Another part of the program is organizing
events for the whole family to participate in.
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