Rancho Los Amigos Foundation

Rancho Los Amigos national rehabilitation center (the "center"): a medical rehabilitation and research hospital dedicated to improving the quality of life for persons with disabilities. The Foundation philanthropically supports the center by funding patient centered services and programs to help meet the needs of the center's diverse disabled population, allowing these patients to receive treatments and programs that are unfunded by insurance or are otherwise outside of the financial means of the patient or outside of traditional Los angeles county funding practices.

For more than 23 years, the Foundation has beenpartnering with Rancho Los Amigos national rehabilitation center (the "center")to provide individuals with disabilities the opportunity to explore the visual arts. In addition, the center's recreation therapy department hosts a twice-weekly art program for its outpatients. The therapists have found that not only has the participation in an arts program provided increased strength, coordination, and concentration, but it has also served as a great means of self-expression and creativity, allowing patients to escape from the routine of their daily lives in hopes of coping with life's challenges.

The adaptive outdoor adventure program at Rancho Los Amigos rehabilitation center focuses on empowering people by focusing on their abilities, not their disabilities. This program utilizes the outdoors to create unique opportunities where people with disabilities can explore the outdoors, experience success both physically and emotionally, develop health leisure outlets for their continued growth and recovery, and improve their overall quality of life. The adaptive outdoor adventure staff is comprised of certified therapeutic recreational specialists who bring a Foundation of therapeutic values, ensure a high level of safety on every trip/experience, and provide a program of wide scope and diversity that addresses the interests and needs of the patients served.