CP Community Day 2026

CP Community Day is our biggest event dedicated to the cerebral palsy community, attracting hundreds of guests each year. Connect with families and community partners, and meet our team while enjoying food and activities for the entire family.

Guest registration: 

https://events.columbia.edu/go/cpcd2026

Contact email:

cpcenter@cumc.columbia.edu

ACTIVITIES LINE UP *

• Lunch on the Plaza **

  • No outdoor event is complete without truck food and ice-cream! Grab lunch from our the Tony Dragons Grille and Mister Softee food trucks and coast through our activities.

  • Grab a botanical mocktail from Wisp & Roots to accompany your lunch.

• Giveaways **

  • Enter our raffle to get a chance to win prizes from New York Giants, Hill House Home, Trailborn, Springrose and StretchLab

  • Colgate-Palmolive Bright Smiles Bright Futures oral health education program will be giving away pediatric oral health kits.

• Meet & Greet

  • Meet our award winning therapy dogs Clyde, Baloo and Dakota.

• Health

  • Vist the Columbia School of Nursing table for a health screening. Everyone is welcome, including caregivers.

  • ColumbaDoctors Dentistry will be there to check on your oral health.

  • Get a foot or spine screening with the Columbia Programs in Physical Therapy team.

  • Don't miss the Columbia Programs in Occupational Therapy station for some fun sensory processing and functional mobility activities.

• Wellness & Adaptive Sports

  • Signup to run or cycle with Achilles International.

  • Shoot some hoops at the Tri-Boro Legends wheelchair basketball clinic.

  • Talk to the athletes from the Wheelchair Sports Foundation NY Sled Rangers.

  • Signup for a therapeutic program or camp with Intensive Therapeutics.

  • Find adaptive sports and recreation programs near you with Let's Move US

• Equipment

  • Sample the hi-tech clinical and neuro technologies from Neuro Rehab Recovery.

  • Find out how to test and borrow products designed to assist and support people with disabilities from ADAPT TechWorks. 

  • NewYork-Presbyterian Seating and Mobility Program will show their equipment.

  • Check out bracing options with OP Specialty Bracing.

• Research Opportunities

  • Our Movement Recovery Lab researchers will share how they translate clinical research to recover movement.

  • Find out how to join a cerebral palsy study at the Columbia Teachers College Center for Cerebral Palsy Research
• Informational Tabling

  • Brains come in all sorts of sizes. Check them out at the Ricupero Rare Disease & Disorders Lab and Bain Brain Lab.

  • Learn about employment opportunities with Columbia's Disability ERG, Project PossABILITY and JobPath.

  • Elizabeth Seton Children's will share their care and education offerings.

  • Find out about services and school options with iHope.

  • Learn about funding resources from CP Extension.

  • Learn about adaptive driving with Executive Driving School 

  • Center for Independence of the Disabled, NY will share its services, advocacy, and education resources with you.

  • Get information about services and resources that support people with disabilities in New York from NY Connects.

• Creative

  • Get your face painted by Julie Morales from Columbia Orthopedics

• Live Performances

  • Enjoy a dancing performance by the youth dancers from Dancing Dreams

  • Join a special singalong with the neurodiverse vocal ensemble, Cambridge Common Voices

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Thank you to our event sponsors

*Activities lineup is subject to change without prior notice to guests.

**While supplies last.

***By attending this event, guests consent to being photographed and to the use of their image or likeness for any purpose, without compensation or acknowledgement. 

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