ABLE Youth, located in Nashville, Tennessee, helps children who use wheelchairs learn that they are not defined by their disabilities and to become happy, healthy, and independent from their wheelchairs. ABLE Youth leads children and youth ages 2-22 to become independent, graduate from high school and continue their education in college or enter the workforce. At ABLE Youth, sports is a motivating catalyst for kids to reach goals of independence. Our kids are examples that with believing in themselves, becoming accountable to themselves, and working hard, they not only can but will succeed in life. ABLE Youth programming includes monthly Super Sports Saturdays and Parents Connection meetings at Super Sports Saturdays, opportunities for kids to learn all about adaptive sports and independence skills and for parents to learn about various topics associated with raising a child with a disability, the Music City Thunder travel wheelchair basketball team, wheelchair and handcycle racing, a yearly Independence Camp, a Career Exploration program, tennis lessons, waterskiing clinics, and a yearly Life Trip for kids to both practice independence skills away from home and to learn a new adaptive sport. Previous Life Trips have been snow skiing in Colorado, adaptive paddleboarding in Atlanta, and to the Dixie Games in Florida.