Cerebral Palsy Community Day
Fun, food and friendship to connect the CP community
With over 350 registered guests, CP Community Day is the biggest community event dedicated to cerebral palsy! Connect with families and community partners, and meet our team while enjoying food and activities for the entire family at this outdoor event. There will be seated yoga, health screenings, adaptive wellness, and sports activities for all ages.
Don't miss a special performance by the neurodiverse vocal ensemble Cambridge Common Voices. Feel the energy from their rehearsal for our event in the video below!
This event has past, please see our highlights here.
We are looking for new and gently-used equipment for our Equipment Swap table. Please bring along any of the following on the day of the event: walkers (anterior and posterior), adaptive equipment (trike, adaptive sports equipment), standers/gait trainers, bath seats, strollers/travel wheelchairs.
Map of Activities
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Lunch on the Plaza
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Grab tacos from our taco truck and cool down with some ice cream. Enjoy lunch while coasting through our activities.
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- Meet & Greet
- Creative
- Pot a plant with the Washington Heights Inwood Food Council.
- Face painting
- Wellness & Sports
- Visit the Columbia Programs in Physical Therapy booth where therapists will be conducting foot and spine screenings.
- Look out for the Columbia Programs in Occupational Therapy team for some fun sensory processing and functional mobility activities.
- Learn about adaptive rock climbing and some cool knot tying techniques from the ParaCliffHangers.
- Chat to CP Soccer youth players, and kick a ball with US Men's CP National Team forward Shea Hammond.
- Shoot some hoops with the Tri-Boro Legends wheelchair basketball crew.
- Equipment
- Bring in any gently-used equipment or bring home something useful from our CP equipment swap table.
- Visit the NewYork-Presbyterian Seating and Mobility Program table.
- Check out bracing options with East Coast Orthotics and Prosthetics.
- Informational Tabling
- CP Positive will share funding opportunities to access care for CP.
- Learn about funding support from CP Extension.
- Find out how to connect with others on the Dateability app.
- Learn how research at the Movement Recovery Lab translates to clinical research to recover movment.
- Find out about research opportunities for the CP community from Columbia Teachers College.
- Find out about care and therapy services from Girling Care Homes.
- Singing Performance (12:30 - 12:50 and 1:30 - 1:50)
- Singalong with the neurodiverse vocal ensemble, Cambridge Common Voices.
- Seated Yoga (11:30 - 11:50 and 1:00 - 1:20)
- Stretch and relax with certified Accessible Yoga Instructor Elisabeth Bates, CPNP, from the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine. Elisabeth will incorporate a brief meditation followed by a seated yoga practice to relief upper body tension. Modifications will be made for each posture.