Telus recently provided the Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation with a first-time donation of $2,750 in support of the Centre’s Adapted Swim Program.
Telus’ Community Action Team, which focuses their giving on children and health in the communities they operate, will be supporting program and equipment costs for the Centre’s Adapted Swim Program.
The program attracts over 30 CTC clients, ages 6-18, who have physical, communication, or developmental needs. Adapted Swim allows for children, of all abilities, to experience the freedom and independence of being without their mobility aids they require outside of the pool.
Additionally, Adapted Swim helps children enhance body awareness, increase communication skills, build muscle and gross motor skills, and improve social skills and water safety while being physically active.
Through working on physiotherapy and life-skills goals, Adapted Swim participants learn the skills they need to participate in recreation and leisure opportunities outside of the Centre. Adapted Swim helps keep kids active, which is a life-long, transferable skill.
