Welcome!

Dear readers, members, and future collaborators,

Welcome to the new Vitality In Action Foundation Blog! This launch comes during an exciting week for us, coinciding with the public rollout of our other social media platforms and our website launch, as well as our first full Board meeting.

This blog represents far more, however, than just a social media platform. We fully intend this space to be a community meeting place to collaborate on mobility and mobility impairment - a forum for new ideas as well as simple thoughts, critical discussion and constructive engagement. It is, above all, a dynamic online tool to facilitate new thinking about overcoming mobility impairment.

We're excited for you to become a part of this discussion, so please take a minute to "follow" us or subscribe to a news feed, as well as start posting comments. No comment is too short or too long, this is, after all, a discussion, not a lecture.

In fact, encouraging a vitalizing discussion goes to the very core of our mission:

Vitality In Action Foundation challenges all individuals who aspire to lead more mobile lives by drawing on adaptive sporting expertise to increase mobility through innovative recreational opportunities for everyone. We accomplish this mission by developing and distributing the knowledge of adaptive habilitation that enables all individuals to participate in these recreational activities.

This discussion is a natural part of developing the knowledge of Adaptive Habilitation, and it's also the first step in distributing that knowledge in a transparent, accessible manner.

We have some very interesting posts in the works already. Over the summer, we'll be covering topics including: a recent seminar discussion on language and ability VIA facilitated in Chicago, the story behind some of the pictures on our website, and a series that will follow an individual through knee replacement surgery as well as take a look at another individual who tore her ACL 5 years ago.

In the meantime, we hope you'll also take the time to look at our website, VitalityInAction.org, and connect with us on Facebook.

We look forward to seeing you back here, and collaborating with you in Creating Mobility for a Lifetime!