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2007 RecipientSan Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation - Injured Servicemembers Program
The Injured Servicemembers Program provides adaptive sports opportunities for newly injured service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Veterans. The activities introduce newly injured service members to a wide variety of adaptive sports, which improve overall fitness and promote a healthy life style. The Injured Servicemembers Program partners with the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project and is administered through the San Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation, a chapter of Disabled Sports USA. The program is designed for individuals with permanent physical disabilities, post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury and provides the next step in renewing their quality of life. Participants from Balboa Naval Medical Center and Cal Diego Paralyzed Veterans Association have benefited from activities such as snow ski trips, golf, canoeing, handcycling, kayaking, archery and wheelchair basketball.
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2006 Recipient
Torrey Pines Kiwanis - La Jolla Festival of the Arts
Over the past 20 years, the La Jolla Festival of Arts has raised over $1 million dollars to benefit over 25,000 San Diegans with disabilities. The Festival offers the highest quality arts and entertainment experience for patrons, guests, and participants. It supports recreational and educational programs such as the Adaptive Snow Ski Program, Accessible Water Sports, Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp, Wheelchair Tennis, Quadriplegic Rugby, Horseback Riding and other fun and challenging programs.
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2005 Recipient
La Jolla Playhouse - Access Program
For more than 10 years, the La Jolla Playhouse has provided access to blind and vision-impaired theatergoers through its Audio Description Program. Led by Playhouse Access Coordinator, Shari Lyon, the Audio Description Team consists of dedicated volunteers who are committed to bringing the magic of live theater to vision-impaired patrons. Determined to make theater accessible to all San Diegans, the Playhouse also offers ASL interpreted performances and Sennheiser hearing devices for the hearing impaired.
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2004 Recipient
Scripps-Mercy Behavioral Health - A-Visions Program
People with psychiatric disorders are often misunderstood, feared and shunned by society. It can be difficult for individuals who have been diagnosed with a mental illness to find work, even if they are undergoing or have completed treatment. In order to address these issues, Mercy's Behavioral Health Services established the A-Visions Job Training Program, in partnership with the San Diego Mental Health Association and the Visions Program. A-Visions Job Training Program is a pre-vocational training program designed to assist affected individuals in job readiness and job placement.
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2003 Recipient
Challenged America
Challenged America seeks to enhance the lives of people with disabilities and their loved ones through innovative sailing programs that work to advance rehabilitation and encourage participation in an exciting challenge. They also work to inform and educate the public, media, government, and health and education professionals about the importance of an active athletic lifestyle.
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2002 Recipient
Silver Gate Yacht Club
The Silver Gate Yacht Club generously shares its time and resources with the San Diego community. Since 1960, the Silver Gate Yacht Club has hosted the Wheelchair Regatta for the physically disabled. Although the program started as a harbor cruise for nine people, today it is the oldest event of its type in the United States, taking hundreds of people out to sail on San Diego Bay. The yacht club also participates in the Make-A-Wish Foundation Tuna Challenge, which raised $189,000 last year to grant wishes to terminally ill children in San Diego.
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