A Big win for the disability community
GRIT Freedom Chair helps nature lovers with disabilities explore forest preserve.
The Will County’s Forest Preserve’s Nature Center is the first in the nation to be accredited by the National Inclusion Project.
This is a big win for the disability community. The GRIT Freedom Chair at four Rivers Environmental Educational Center in Channahon helps those with disabilities better explore the trails and outdoors. The GRIT Freedom Chair is available for public use at no cost.
The GRIT Freedom Chair at Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channahon helps those with disabilities better explore trails and is available for public use at no cost.
People with disabilities receive fewer opportunities for physical exercise, outdoor activities, and recreation than do other Americans. The need to Creating opportunities for families and friends of the disabled community is critical. Recreation and outdoor activity provide a means to physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being for individuals with disabilities.
Recreation can reduce pain, depression, stress, and anxiety; increase strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance; improve cardiovascular functioning; improve self-esteem, social skills, promote independence; and improve mental alertness, and problem solving.[1] Aerobic activity boosts immune system activity, reduces pain and inflammation, and decreases the incidence and impact of chronic diseases, insulin resistance, cancer, and stroke.[2]
Spending over 40 years in a manual wheelchair has taught me that getting outdoors is critical to my mental, physical and spiritual health. In addition, spending time outdoors has been proven to have important mental and physical health benefits for all people, including significant improvements in self-esteem, reductions in depression and anxiety, decreased stress, increased creativity, and a sense of freedom and connection to the community.[3]
We as a community have so many opportunities to make life more accessible for everyone. It is the right thing to do and it is necessary to help people thrive.
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