KEEN Sports

Sports is KEEN's core program. During sports, athletes and volunteers come together for loosely structured sports activities.  Athletes develop friendships as they participate in physical activities and have free play opportunities that meet sensory and recreational needs.  Activities within sports sessions typically include, but are not limited to: basketball, scooters, t-ball, soccer, relay races, ball play, parachutes and more.

Each session ends with everyone coming together in a circle (although some athletes still need to run around its periphery, and that’s okay) and sharing with the group what they did that day “that made them very Proud.”  The group then plays parachute games and sings the hokey pokey.  Athletes burn energy, meet and interact with new volunteers, see old friends, and then rejoin their parents.

Programs vary by location.