Adaptive Freedom Foundation

09/26/2026

09/24/2026

🌊✨ Congratulations to our 2026 Making Waves Award Winners! ✨🌊

The Adaptive Freedom Foundation is proud to celebrate six incredible individuals and organizations who are making waves through inclusion, advocacy, community, and compassion.

🏆 Advocate of the Year: Tiffany Yu
⭐ Rising Star (21 & Under): Joshua Conger
💙 Caregiver Champion: Fausto Rodas
🤝 Community Partner of the Year: Black Sheep Salon
🌊 Inclusion in Action: Aly Corvin
🌊 Inclusion in Action: Ian Macleod

Each of these honorees is helping create a community where people with disabilities can thrive, possibilities are recognized, and everyone has the opportunity to participate fully.

Please join us in celebrating their accomplishments and thanking them for the waves they are making! 💙

Different Abilities. One Freedom.

09/24/2026

🌊 TODAY IS LONG BEACH GIVES! 🌊

Long Beach Gives is a communitywide day of giving that brings people together to support the nonprofits creating meaningful change throughout Long Beach.

This is a powerful time to support Adaptive Freedom Foundation because every donation—no matter the amount—adds to our momentum and helps more people experience freedom, confidence, connection, and belonging.

Your gift supports inclusive adaptive recreation and helps make Waves of Ability possible—a free celebration where people of all abilities come together for adaptive sports, wellness, community, and joy.

We believe one experience can change what someone believes is possible. Your support helps us create more of those moments.

💙 Give $5, $10, $25, or whatever feels meaningful.
🌊 Every donor helps us build the wave.
♿ Every gift helps make possibility more accessible.

Please donate, share this post, and invite someone else to be part of what’s possible.

DONATE HERE:
https://www.longbeachgives.org/story/msm26f

Help create freedom, confidence, and belonging through adaptive recreation.

09/24/2026

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OC Coastkeeper is proud to support AdaptiveFreedomFoundation this Saturday, September 26th at the Waves of Ability event at Marine Stadium in Long Beach! 🌊

This event is FREE and available to everyone, not just those with disabilities. Join Coastkeeper as we showcase our new beach wheelchair and host a fun scallop shell painting activity while learning about how we are advancing accessibility! Guests can also participate in adapted sports and activities such as paddle boarding, yoga and more.

👉Visit our website to learn how Coastkeeper is ensuring our waterways are accessible to all.

09/22/2026

Free Tickets in the bio

09/07/2026

Waves of Ability Adaptive Sports & Wellness Fair with .repost
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🌊 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🌊

Waves of Ability is possible because people show up for one another.

Join Adaptive Freedom Foundation on Saturday, September 26, at Marine Stadium in Long Beach as we create an adaptive sports and wellness fair where people of all abilities can move, explore, connect, and discover what’s possible.

We need caring, dependable volunteers to help with guest welcome, adaptive activities, vendors, stage support, hospitality, setup, breakdown, and more.

Whether you’ve volunteered with us before or are joining us for the first time, there is a place for you on this team.

📅 Saturday, September 26
📍 Marine Stadium, Long Beach
💙 Sign up: https://signup.com/go/gCBtKfC

Different Abilities. One Freedom.

09/04/2026

What could you discover if you gave yourself permission to try something new? 🌊

At Waves of Ability, we’re creating a day to explore, connect, move, breathe, play — and discover what’s possible.

✨ Try adaptive sports and new activities
🌊 Get out on the water on an adaptive paddle board
🛶 Paddle together in a double-hull canoe
🌬️ Experience guided breathwork and wellness practices
🐴 Meet our mini therapy horses
🤝 Make new friends and connect with an incredible community
🎶 Enjoy music, movement, demonstrations, vendors and more

You don’t have to already be an athlete.
You don’t have to know what you want to try.

Just come curious.

Maybe you discover a sport you love.
Maybe you learn a tool that helps you feel better in your body.
Maybe you meet someone who becomes a friend.
Maybe one experience changes what you believe is possible.

That’s how a ripple begins. 💙

Come make a ripple. Be part of the wave of possibility.

🌊 WAVES OF ABILITY
Adaptive Sports & Wellness Fair
📅 Saturday, September 26
⏰ 11:00 AM–4:00 PM
📍 Marine Stadium • Long Beach
🎟️ FREE TO ATTEND

Register free through the link in our bio.

Ripples of Change. Waves of Possibility.

09/04/2026

It starts with one experience. One moment that changes what someone believes is possible.

That moment creates a ripple.
One ripple inspires another.
And another.
Until together, they become a wave.

On September 26, we’re bringing those ripples together at Waves of Ability — a free adaptive sports and wellness fair built around movement, connection, inclusion, and possibility.

Come make a ripple. Be part of the wave of possibility.

🌊 Waves of Ability
📅 Saturday, September 26
⏰ 11 AM–4 PM
📍 Marine Stadium, Long Beach
🎟️ FREE TO ATTEND

Register through the link in our bio.

08/30/2026

This is what possibility looks like from above. 🌊💙

Yesterday in Newport Beach, our Paddle Day was filled with so much more than paddle boards.

It was people trying something they may not have believed was possible.
Volunteers showing up with a simple message: I’m here if you need me.
Families cheering from the shore.
New friendships.
Big smiles.
And a community proving that we are stronger when we make room for everyone.

At Adaptive Freedom Foundation, we believe a single experience can change a life — and enough changed lives can change a community.

Yesterday, we made some waves. 🌊✨

Thank you to every participant, family member, volunteer, supporter and friend who made this day possible.

Here’s to more freedom. More connection. More possibility.