Webcast: Complementary & Integrative Healthcare (CIH) for People with SCI

Join this free online webcast: Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:30-8:00 PM Eastern Time. Presented by Jennifer Coker, MPH Rocky Mountain Regional SCI Model System Craig Hospital, Denver, CO.

Across Disability Support Group: Securing your Financial Stability

Join us on 6:00 pm May 25th at Chapter 126 in Bristol CT for the Across Disability Support and Informational Group. The topic will be Understanding tax benefits and improving your financial future for people with disabilities, with guest speaker Hiram Gonzalez of Gonzolez Associates.

Webinar: The Disability Integration Act & Why it Matters to You

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

This webinar will provide details about the Disability Integration Act, a bill that, if passed, would create an absolute right for all people with disabilities to live in the community instead of being forced into institutional settings, such as nursing homes. Participants will learn the specifics of the bill, and how this law would benefit people with spinal cord disabilities by ensuring services and supports needed are provided in a person's home.
 

Interested in Adaptive Rowing?

Then Learn to Row with Us! The Connecticut Adaptive Rowing Program (CARP) is designed to serve a wide variety of recreational and competitive rowing enthusiasts with physical disabilities and/or visual impairments and offers and orientation scheduled for for May 24, 2017 from 5-6:30 p.m. at Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital. 

SCI Awareness Day in Massachusetts - September 13, 2017

For our members in the state of Massachusetts: Join us at the State House for the Annual SCI Awareness Month Proclamation and Presentation - SPINAL CORD INJURY AWARENESS DAY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017, 12:00-1:00 PM. MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE, HALL OF FLAGS, GREAT HALL

Join us at our new Across Disability Support Group in Bristol, CT on April 27

Roll on Capitol Hill is coming June 11 - 14, 2017!

Roll on Capitol Hill is United Spinal Association's signature policy event which highlights key advocacy priorities for its membership and the broader disability community to ensure that legislators include wheelchair users and all people with disabilities in policy debates on Capitol Hill. Here is the information you need if you are interested in applying to attend this year's event.  Deadlines for registration are fast approaching, so click below for more information.

Take a Veteran Sailing - Sept 11, 2016

Annually on the Sunday closest to September 11, United Spinal Association teams up with Sail Connecticut Access to provide of day of sailing, adventure and camaraderie to local veterans and disabled veterans. Click below to watch a video of this great day.

Milford "Bar Crawl" Raises Money for SCIACT

The 7th Annual Milford Bar Crawl was held on Saturday July 9, 2016 at 1pm, making the rounds to local establishments like Citrus, Archie Moores, Eli's, and Stonebridge where many still stayed well into the night. Participants raised not only SCI awareness but $1750 for the United Spinal Association CT Chapter a well! Click for photos of this year's event.

Gaylord Sports Association has become Paralympic Sport Club of Southern New England

posted February 2012

This prominent designation not only gives national visibility to Gaylord Hospital for the established adaptive sports that we currently provide, but will enhance our existing programming and broaden the scope of adaptive sports to the elite level.

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital Spinal Cord Injury Informational Series

posted January 2012

Save the Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Guest: Elanah Sherman from the State Office of Protection and Advocacy for Person’s With Disabilities (ADA, Lemon Law, Voting Rights)

Meeting Location: Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital 490 Blue Hills Ave, Hartford, CT.

NSCIA Supports CT Team Reeve 2nd Annual Roll-A-Thon

posted October 2011

The CT Chapter of NSCIA supported the CT Team Reeve 2nd Annual Roll-A-Thon on Sunday September 25, 2011. A great many people attended the event in Hartford's Bushnell Park, participating in adaptive sports and a wheelchair course through the park. Participants received information from our chapter and we signed up 11 new members.

Save the Date: Shelton Riverwalk Wheel / Walk for Fitness

OCTOBER 2, 2011 - Shelton, CT

6th Annual SCI/CARP Pot-luck Cookout on the CT River

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.
This cookout is open to all persons with a Spinal Cord Injury, family, friends and CARP Members. This program is co-sponsored by the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, Connecticut Chapter and facilitated by Bryan Tronosky, PT, Nicole Burdick, OTR/L and Paige McCullough-Casciano, CTRS from Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital.

Save the Date: 2011 Wheeling & Able Golf Classic

Come out for a great day of golf on one of New England’s finest public courses to benefit the programs and services of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA-CT). Funds raised at the 12th Wheeling and Able Golf Classic will stay in CT to help those who have suffered a SCI and will help supplement statewide education and outreach programs.