VAIL by the Numbers
Programs and Services
Adaptive Athletics
Miscellaneous
Know your ADA
100

This is the total number of individuals served by VAIL in FY 2024.

What is 482?

100

This VAIL program supports individuals with physical disabilities in hiking, skiing, and kayaking.

What is the Outdoor Adaptive Recreation Program?

100

This VAIL team ranked 16th in the nation the first two years that VAIL had them as a program.

What is the Harrisonburg Cardinals wheelchair basketball team?

100

This is the name of VAIL’s annual cold-water fundraising event.

What is the Arctic Dip?

100

The year the ADA was signed into law.

What is 1990?

200

Number of hours VAIL spent on individual services, which increased by 16.5%.

What is 10,616.75?

200

This program helps youth transition into adulthood, sometimes through independent living skills training and job interview training.

What is Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS)?

200

VAIL hosted this many teams at their 2024 basketball tournament.

What is four?

200

The name of the event VAIL holds to kick off the wheelchair basketball season

What is the Community Exhibition Game?

200

The required path of travel under the ADA

What is 36"

300

The number of miles VAIL staff drove to perform services.

What is 66,378.7?

300

The number of people VAIL helped avoid institutionalization in FY 2024.

What is 409?

300

This activity marked a return to water for one participant after 7 years.

What is kayaking (or Outdoor Adaptive Recreation)?

300

VAIL serves how many localities with how many employees? Extra credit if you can name the localities

What is 10 localities with with 14 staff, 11 full time and 3 part time. 

What is Bath, Highland, Rockbridge. Augusta, Rockingham and Rockbridge as well as Lexington, Buena Vista, Waynesboro, Staunton, Harrisonburg

300

Employers must provide this to qualified individuals with disabilities.

What is reasonable accommodations?

400

The age group with the largest number of VAIL consumers.

What is 25 to 59?

400

Services where VAIL provided over 478 hours of assistance by phone or email.

What is Information & Referral?

400

VAIL's adaptive recreation program is currently serving this many unduplicated individuals.

What is 37 individuals. VAIL registered 12 players to the wheelchair basketball team with many being new players; several of whom are recently injured and the sport has provided a lifeline.

400

VAIL provides an array of services to individuals with disabilities to live independently in the community.  What are some of these services?

What is information and referral, advocacy, peer support, transition services (youth and nursing home), independent living skills training, adaptive sports programming, pre-ets services, home modification programming, options counseling

400

This Title of the ADA focuses on employment protections for people with disabilities.

What is Title I

500

The top county served by VAIL by number of individuals.

What is Rockingham County (135 people)?

500

A common response in the VAIL survey about the biggest local need for people with disabilities.

What is transportation?

500

The emotion described by a participant who called the event “the best day of my life.”

What is joy/gratitude/excitement?

500

The Rockingham Rotary Club can support VAIL (and does through it's members) in various ways that include...

What is participating in the Arctic Dip, sponsoring the Arctic Dip, participating in the Community Exhibition Game, Sponsorship of the tournament held in November for the wheelchair basketball team, like and follow VAIL and VAIL Cardinals page on facebook, X and instagram, volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Critical Home Repair Program

500

These must be provided for events open to the public to be ADA compliant.

What are accessible entrances, restrooms, and seating?