Bay Area Outreach Recreation Program, Inc.

Adult Sports Program offers wheelchair basketball, power soccer, and goalball, a unique sport for individuals with visual impairments. Activities are offered on a recreational and competitive basis and adult teams have opportunities to compete in local, regional, and national tournaments. This program provides a structured sports environment for graduating youth program participants, as well as opportunities for disabled adults trying to sports for the first time, and enables participants to establish a regular fitness routine. Activities are offered three evenings a week year-round.

Adventures and Outings Program provides disabled children, adults, and their families with access to many recreational activities that the Bay Area has to offer in a supportive environment. This program also offers a wide variety of weekly activities appealing to people of all ages and abilities, and creates opportunities for families to participate in recreational activities together. Urban outings as well as more adventurous outdoor excursions are offered, including museum tours and theater outings, guided natures hikes on local accessible trails, adaptive skiing trips, kayaking, rafting, and whale watching.

Adaptive Cycling Program is an integrated program serving people with disabilities of all ages and their families and friends at out state-of-the-art adaptive cycling center at Aquatic Park in Berkeley. This year-round program utilizes a fleet of over 70 adaptive bikes to offer cycling experiences for a wide spectrum of people with varying physical disabilities and visual impairments. Participants can ride in organized group rides, on their own, or with family and friends. With the support of our knowledgeable staff and dedicated volunteers, cyclists of all ability levels explore local Bay Area biking trails using tandems, hand cycles, recumbent, standard bikes and three-wheelers. The program offers open hours 3 days a week as well as organized weekly youth and family rides, veterans' rides, tandem rides, and away rides in local nature areas. BORP also hosts an annual Revolution Ride, during which program participants along with traditional cyclists ride 10-100 mile routes in Sonoma's wine country. This event provides our regular cycling participants with an end-of-season training goal and also serves as a major fundraising event for the organization.

The Fitness Center provides integrated group exercise classes such as Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates Healthy Backs, Gentle Stretch and much more. all classes are adaptable for people with and without disabilities.

Since 2015 BORP has partnered with the UNiversity of California to provide students with vision impairments with a weekly goalball class.