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Help Build Sports Complex for Kids With Special Needs

For children facing physical and/or mental disabilities, the opportunity to play sports can be difficult to achieve. Sports venues were not designed with wheelchairs, walkers and crutches in mind, until now. That’s why the YMCA of Greater Kansas City is building a sports complex in the northland to provide children with special needs a place to play sports.

Accessible Playing Fields and Playground

With the community’s help, athletes with special needs soon will be able to enjoy a sports complex of their own that will have a rubber athletic surface—removing the barriers, accommodating wheelchairs and walkers, and cushioning falls for children with special needs. We are currently raising community contributions to make this state-of-the-art facility a reality. The complex will be located in the northland and will have one rubber synthetic turf baseball and one rubber synthetic turf flag football/soccer field, an all accessible playground, one grass football/soccer field and two grass baseball fields.

Adaptive sports for kids with special needs are about more than playing a game. They’re about making new friends, building self-esteem and being treated like other kids. For more information about this project or how you can help, please contact the YMCA at 816.561.9622.

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