FLYTIME
CLASS INFO
We help INDIVIDUALS with special needs attain more movement so that they can achieve physical fitness.
Our FlyTime program is free of charge to local schools and programs thanks to donors and grants. With your support, we can continue to provide over 100 athletes with developmental disabilities in our community the opportunity to work hard, build muscle, and challenge themselves through physical fitness.
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Each year we use all funds raised on Giving Hearts Day to support FlyTime!
Funding for FlyTime was provided in part by the West Central Initiative’s Spring Grant Round.
FlyTime is a program designed for individuals with special needs who may need assistance to move, climb, roll, communicate or interact in a traditional setting. MFGF has worked in partnership with our local schools and area programs to adopt a gymnastics-based fitness and exercise program using specific equipment giving these children with disabilities the opportunity to work hard, build muscle, and challenge themselves through climbing, jumping, running, crawling, bouncing and many other fun activities, in an environment that is best for them.
Our certified personal trainer adapts activities so every athlete can reach goals, build strength, increase coordination and develop positive self-esteem.
FLYTIME is FILLING THE GAP
- Rossman Elementary
- Roosevelt Elementary
- Detroit Lakes Middle School
- Detroit Lakes High School
- Frazee schools
- Lake Park Audubon Elementary
- The DAC
- DL Transitions (an after high school graduation program)
WHO WE IMPACT
With limited options for how to participate in traditional PE classes at school many children with special needs struggle to burn effective energy throughout their day. Since most parents are not able to afford specialized adaptive equipment to help their children achieve movement this leaves many children with special needs behind when it comes to physical fitness. Since we began our FlyTime program we have heard time and time again from multiple paraprofessionals, teachers, and parents that when students come back to school after attending an hour of adaptive physical activity at FlyTime they have a much better ability to focus and pay attention in their classrooms!
HOW WE IMPACT
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We are hoping to grow this program in the future by being able to offer a paraprofessional free of charge to families of children with disabilities who want to enroll their child in regular recreational program classes here at our gymnastics and fitness facility. Not only would this be beneficial to the children, but we believe that it is so important for parents of these children to be able to have time for themselves. Providing a para for these children would allow parents to drop off their children for an hour one night a week, allowing them to go run errands, catch up on work at home, relax, and so many other things! However, being able to offer a para for recreational classes free of charge would in turn increase our overall cost of the FlyTime program and create a larger need for funding.
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