This summer, bicycling has been a popular sport at Glade Run Lutheran Services. Aside from the campus construction, perhaps you’ve seen groups of kids zipping by on bike near campus in Zelienople. Throughout the months of June and July, Glade Run’s Foundation Assistant, Michelle Herr, solicited donations of bicycles for...
Mental Health
“Aspie Seeks Love” Documentary Screening
Parents in Toto is hosting an evening at the Strand Theater on Main Street in Zelienople this Sunday, July 24, 2016. They will be presenting an award-winning documentary called “Aspie Seeks Love” which sold out at the Regent Square Theater in 2015. This documentary follows David Matthews who was diagnosed with Asperger...
Community Effort: How to Use Work to Put Mental Health Stigmas to Rest
“Are you ready?” I’m sitting in the passenger seat of a Glade Run vehicle, watching Tara Harvan, the Glade Run Transitions Program Coordinator, help our Transitions students get settled in the car. The students are dressed in their Transitions Program work shirt, ID badge, and mud boots. We are on...
St. Stephen’s ASD Program had a Blast on the Bowling Field Trip!
This featured blog was written by Chris Smith, Program Manager of ASD Educational Services at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Academy. On Wednesday, May 11th, the ASD program at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Academy attended a field trip to Family Bowlaway in Butler. The outing allowed the students to put into practice the social...
Autism Awareness Month
Autism Awareness Month Did you know this Saturday, April 2, is the eighth annual World Autism Awareness Day or Light It up Blue Day! April is also Autism Awareness Month. Autism Awareness Month is a time to focus on educating individuals and communities about Autism Spectrum Disorders and to Light It Up Blue! ...
North Allegheny students play Santa for Glade Run
Most people think of Santa Claus as a big man with a white beard and a red suit. But perhaps Santa is a Tiger, the kind at North Allegheny Senior High School in McCandless. Since 2009, the school’s students have provided Christmas presents for the youths at Glade Run’s Residential...
Audiences ride “The Polar Express”
Bells of believers jingled joyfully at The Strand Theater in Zelienople during the Glade Run Foundation’s sixth annual holiday event featuring the film “The Polar Express.” Two showings Dec. 5 brought in about 375 people. Those who attended the free film were asked to bring gifts for Glade Run youths....
You Should Have Written This Post
It’s October. Only one month away from something you’ve most likely never heard of…NaBloPoMo, but there’s still time. NaBloPoMo is National Blog Posting Month, and it starts in November. It’s a writing exercise: one blog post each day for the month of November; one post per day to get...
Alternate Universe
In the fall, as the children begin to go back to school across the US, my social media feeds are divided neatly in half. From my friends whose children are neurotypical come posts like these: My baby is off to kindergarten (or middle school, or high school, or college). I...