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Allied Services demonstrates a strong commitment to athletic and recreational activities for people with disabilities through its wheelchair sports teams and outdoor adventure programs.
The Allied Outdoor Adventure program at Allied Services provides a variety of challenging outdoor recreational activities accessible to individuals with physical disabilities. We provide a spectrum of adventure-based outdoor programs geared toward developing outdoor skills and facilitating group outdoor experience.
Few activities rival skiing for sheer excitement. Allied's downhill skiing programs provide beginner to advanced level skiing opportunities including: Monthly beginner instruction clinics by certified instructors.
Annual trips to the finest adaptive ski schools in the northeast. Mono-ski loan program for intermediate to advanced level skiers.
Through SCUBA, one can experience the thrill of weightlessness while swimming among the vast and beautiful plant and marine life of the underwater world. Our adapted SCUBA program provides opportunities to experience this exciting outdoor activity in two distinct ways.
Allied's SCUBA instructors are certified by the Handicapped SCUBA Association and bring with them years of teaching and diving experience. Their specialized training enables them to accommodate the unique needs of each student diver. Certification courses are approximately 8 weeks long and consist of classroom, pool and open water dive training sessions. Upon successful completion, students earn certification as recreational divers.
From May to September Allied offers monthly dive trips to locations ranging from the Great Lakes to the coast of North Carolina. 19th century shipwrecks, tropical sea life and inland lakes are a few of the many exciting features of our diving trips. SCUBA trips to more exotic tropical dive destinations are planned on a demand basis.
Canoeing offers a truly accessible outdoor experience. With such a great diversity of natural waterways throughout the northeast, paddling is unparalleled for experiencing the beauty of rivers, lakes and wetlands. Through simple adaptations, individuals with disabilities can explore the outdoors in a graceful and barrier-free manner.
Once a month from May to September, Allied offers an Introduction to Paddling clinic to teach basic safety skills, paddling strokes and equipment use. Instructors are certified by the American Canoe Association and have specialized endorsement training to teach paddlers with disabilities.
Canoe trips from May to October provide hands-on outdoor adventure. Destinations range from day trips on the Delaware river to multi-day wilderness canoe camping trips throughout the northeast. Groups range from 6-10 persons and trips are a great way to involve family and friends.
