The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors proclaimed July 2023 as “Disability Pride Month” and invited representatives of the disability community and their supporters, as well as County staff and representatives from the many non-profit organizations that provide services to people with disabilities, to come before the board at its July 25, meeting to receive the proclamation.
Members of SPARC (Specially Adapted Resource Centers community) were excited to join in as the board matter passed in a unanimous vote. SPARC hosts centers that operate five days a week at various county locations in Fairfax and Arlington with staff-led programming based on a curriculum rooted in therapeutic recreation principles that consist of continued education/leisure learning, skill building, exercise, excursions, cooking, music, art, lectures, discussion groups, and more. SPARC’s clients require support with daily living activities, and without SPARC, they are often neglected and forgotten. SPARC’s annual cost per participant is $9,000. If the SPARC participant instead attended a Medicaid provider, the taxpayer cost would average $39,000 per year.
SPARC hosts centers that operate five days a week at various county locations in Fairfax and Arlington with staff-led programming based on a curriculum rooted in therapeutic recreation principles that consist of continued education/leisure learning, skill building, exercise, excursions, cooking, music, art, lectures, discussion groups, and more. SPARC’s clients require support with daily living activities and without SPARC they are often neglected and forgotten. SPARC’s annual cost per participant is $9,000. If the SPARC participant instead attended a Medicaid provider, the taxpayer cost would average $39,000 per year.
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