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An energetic Friday morning at Roc Holiday Village highlighting Rochester Accessible Adventures and the Rochester Sled Hawks! Such a treat to be on the air with the first LIVE broadcast by the 13WHAM team! They raced down the snowy hill…
At the heart of Rochester Accessible Adventures (RAA) is a mission to empower businesses and organizations to operate through a lens of inclusion. This mission was highlighted this fall at the Salmon Creek Nature Preserve, where RAA’s inclusion partner, Genesee…
This summer, Rochester Accessible Adventures (RAA) took strides in growing the wheelchair tennis community through an inclusive and engaging program. With support from the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and partnerships with a local venue, Pieters Family Life Center, RAA…
The Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 will go down in the books as historic for many reasons. Those of us in the Rochester region were privy to a fabulous experience of the ‘darker side’ of an eclipse due to heavy…
On July 30, 2024, New York Power Authority and NY Canal Corporation announced their new Accessibility Education Program that launches a vision of inclusion of people with disabilities in recreation and tourism across the Erie Canalway! Celebrating the culmination of…
Rochester Accessible Adventures sees the current Monroe County Parks survey of parks surrounding Irondequoit Bay as an opportunity for the voices of potential users with disabilities to be incorporated into the master planning stages. “Having those voices in at the…
It’s so wonderful to be a part of things when our Inclusion Partners start expanding their outreach and impact! This month we celebrate as Ludus Fencing Studio hosts a clinic for fencers who are blind or have low vision! The…
This is an exciting year as the opening of Bicentennial celebrations will commence on the Erie Canal! And RAA is thrilled to be a part of the growing momentum to ensure people with disabilities have equitable access both in their…
RAA has worked with the Total Solar Eclipse Stakeholder Task Force for the past 5 years to ensure people with disabilities were intentionally included in this phenomenal experience. RAA created and distributed resources for event planners and worked behind the…
Sharon Holahan’s can-do attitude is why she rarely sits still. She doesn’t wait around for anything because of her disability. “The word ‘can’t’ has never been in my vocabulary,” said Holahan. Thanks to Rochester Accessible Adventures and its work around…