Dreams for Kids replaces charity with opportunity for at-risk youth through service, leadership and social activities and inspires them to fearlessly pursue their dreams and compassionately change the world. Dreams For Kids DC is the first expansion branch of Dreams For Kids and is currently focused on organizing life-changing activities that empower children with physical and developmental disabilities to unite with their peers and realize their full potential. Extreme Recess is an innovative athletic program that provides adaptive sports clinics, 1-3 times a month, to children between the ages of 4 and 24 with physical or developmental disabilities. Each of our clinics host between 50-100 participants and have a 1:1 participant to volunteer ratio. Extreme Recess also acts as a platform to connect organizations that serve children with disabilities in DC, MD, and VA with the families of children with disabilities. All too often, children with disabilities miss out on exciting activities that other children get to experience daily. Extreme Recess provides these children with an opportunity to participate in adaptive sports, often for the first time. Our clinics get children off of the sidelines and allow them to unite and engage with their peers. “After my daughter became a part of your sports program, she stopped thinking about what she couldn’t do, but what she could do
