Where Hope Grows' is coming to Lancaster!

Partnership with Elizabethtown College

Our first semester of partnership with Dr. Tyminski was a success! We had the pleasure of meeting with and working with a large majority of her students.  We are excited about this partnership because we see how these future teachers are affected by the real world interactions with not only children with disabilities, but the parents.  We look forward to continuing this partnership each semester!  The class wrapped up their projects at the end of April and invited us to their presentations.  

2nd Annual Golf Tournament
LDSA is excited to announce our 2^nd annual golf tournament fundraiser!  The money from last year helped us this ENTIRE year by covering the cost of the sports clinics, Town Hall Meetings, and Playdates!  For this tournament, the money will be designated to our educational training on inclusion.  Once again we will be partnering with Excentia on this concept and we will also have a takeaway for teachers to help make inclusion a reality in Lancaster - our kids deserve it!  Find more information here!
 

Training for Lancaster's First Responders to continue as a regular training!

We are excited to announce that the LDSA/Excentia First Responder Training will continue as a course offering at the Training Center.  The training will be offered as a credit earning course as well!  We are very excited at this news.  The next round will be offered in September.

Lancaster Bar Crawl to benefit LDSA
Barrel O'Monkeys Productions holds a monthly Bar Crawl in Lancaster to promote both the bar scene in Lancaster and help out a local charity - well, August is our turn!  We are very excited to partner with this organization on such an awesome (and fun) idea!  Look for more information coming soon!

321 Dance
The new date for the Dance will be September 25th from 5:30-8:30!  This will be a partnership with Celebrate Down Syndrome - look for more information to follow!

Thank you for everyone who has taken advantage of the sports clinics - we have enjoyed them immensely! We are taking a break from the sports clinics - we will certainly let you know when we start back!
 

 

Upcoming Meetings
We will be postponing our Town Hall Meetings for the summer.  See you in the fall!

Pequea Church VBS
This is an INCLUSIVE VBS program with support from Pequea Pals.  They have gone to great lengths to make sure ALL kids can be included in their program.  As always, we are very excited with this group and their amazing ministry.  Click here for more information.
 

Volunteers needed!!

Do you LOVE what we are doing?  We would LOVE to have to you help us!  We don't need you to donate hours and hours of your time - we know everyone is busy, but we really could use the help on some of our upcoming projects!  Even an hour a month could help us tremendously!  Please email us at contact@lancasterdsa.org if you are interested in helping us in any way!