The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center partners with leading community organizations that serve individuals with disabilities and their families with the goal of enhancing collaborations.
Center outreach staff members arrange visits to the Center by agency board members, leadership staff, and families involved with the organization. The Center’s Community Partners are asked to share information within their organization about the Center’s research, services, and training. In turn, the Center shares information about the organization’s mission, services, and events through the Center’s communication programs.
Community Partners are invited by the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Outreach Committee of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Leadership Council to partner with the Center on specific initiatives, programs, or events that are of mutual interest. Organization representatives are recognized at an annual Vanderbilt Kennedy Center event.
An organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Monthly workshops, orientations, annual conferences, support groups, referral to local resources, phone support, educational and legislative advocacy, public awareness opportunities and trainings, and an active involvement in the larger disability community.
Through its many programs, Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc. serves thousands of people in communities throughout Middle Tennessee. They proudly offer our services to people of any religion, race and ethnicity. Catholic Charities provides human services, which enhance and enrich the quality of life for people in need. They exist to perform acts of love, goodwill and kindness.
Promotes the health care of children of the Cumberland Region. Members work to improve the quality of care, to increase efficiency, and to lower the cost of delivering pediatric health care services. Their web site includes information for parents, children, and a library.
Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee is a community-based organization of more than 500 families. Our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals with Down syndrome by providing support, information and education to those individuals, their families, professionals, and the communities that make up the Middle Tennessee region.
The mission of the Frist Center is to present and originate high quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities.
The Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee (MHAMT) is now in its 62nd year of service to the Middle Tennessee community. Since its founding, our mission has been to promote mental health for all people through education, advocacy, and service. Over the years, the Association has worked diligently to educate all members of our community about how to attain good mental health. Last year alone we were able to share our message of hope for mental wellness to over 100,000 individuals.
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, where dedicated professionals are helping more than 75,000 students prepare for the future. Within our 137 schools you’ll find students and teachers making great achievements every day. We believe every student should be challenged to reach his or her peak performance. To do this, we offer exciting educational opportunities and stimulating learning environments. We focus on students as individuals, each with unique needs and capabilities. We welcome and encourage parents to be involved. We seek community ownership and support. And we constantly pursue new initiatives to help all students reach higher goals.
Saddle Up! provides a recreational therapeutic horseback riding program that makes a positive difference in the lives of Middle Tennessee children and youth, ages 4 to 18, with more than 40 types of documented disabilities.
The Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare (TCSW) is a multi-issue statewide organization with six regional volunteer networks dedicated to the mission of “improving the social and economic well-being of Tennesseans, particularly for those most vulnerable.” With over 1500 individual members and 160 organizational members, TCSW works as a powerful system steward and weaver to implement best programs, policies, proficiencies and public awareness of short and long term opportunities for advancement. TCSW program services include state-level issue education with decision-makers, community connections for service learning, and regional networks to strengthen families and communities.
The Council on Developmental Disabilities provides leadership to ensure independence, productivity, integration, and inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the community through promotion of systems change.
TPAC is located in the James K. Polk Cultural Center at 505 Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville, occupying an entire city block between 5th and 6th Avenues and Deaderick and Union Streets. Also housing the Tennessee State Museum, the cultural center adjoins the 18 story James K. Polk Office Tower. The performance venues at TPAC are Andrew Jackson Hall (2,472 seats), James K. Polk Theater (1,075), Andrew Johnson Theater (256) and War Memorial Auditorium (1,661), the historic landmark located across 6th Avenue and the plaza from the Center. Among its many operations, TPAC presents a series of Broadway shows and special engagements, and administers a comprehensive education program.
The mission statement of the Tennessee Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
The Arc of Tennessee is a grassroots, non-profit, statewide organization on intellectual & developmental disabilities. It was founded in 1952 and is affiliated with The Arc of the United States. The Arc of Tennessee is also a membership organization composed of people with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities, their parents, friends, and the professionals who assist them in reaching their goals.
At University School of Nashville, teaching and learning come first. Everything we do is rooted in a commitment to celebrate the potential of each day in a community of learners, to explore the remarkable dimensions of a K-12 school in an educational setting unlike any other. Our students and faculty can count on being asked for their very best and on being encouraged at every step along the way.
The mission of the Woodbine Community Organization is to preserve the character of our neighborhood by improving living conditions of residents in the area, especially low- and moderate-income families; improving communications and cooperation of area residents regardless of age, race or national origin; providing residents of the area with access to decision-making processes of city, state and federal government; eliciting input and assistance from members of the business and civic community; assisting in the provision of decent and affordable housing to low-and moderate-income persons helping new Americans become assimilated into the American culture without losing their native cultures.
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