9 adaptive sports, peer-support, and activity-based therapy organizations in Louisiana: 5 adaptive sports programs, 2 peer-support groups and 2 organizations doing both. Verified July 2026. You do not need to be an athlete: many of these exist as much for the community as the sport.
New Horizons Independent Living Center
Shreveport-based Center for Independent Living serving 29 north-Louisiana parishes with peer support, advocacy, skills training, and a durable-medical-equipment loan closet for people with any disability.
ThinkFirst of the Ark-La-Tex
Shreveport-area program hosting a monthly brain & spinal cord injury support group with peer mentoring and hospital visits to families of newly injured patients.
Trinity Outdoors Disabled Adventures
Youngsville/Lake Arthur 501(c)(3) (founded 2008 out of the Acadiana Amputee Support Group) running adaptive tennis, golf, hunting, fishing, kayaking, camping, and summer camps for people with physical disabilities.
Brain Injury Association of Louisiana / United Spinal Louisiana (BIALA)
Statewide Louisiana resource for SCI/TBI survivors offering peer support, mentoring, advocacy, and adaptive sports partnerships with the BISCIS League baseball and bowling program and Cajun Crushers.
City of Kenner Adaptive Sports Program
City-run adaptive sports program in partnership with SMCL Foundation offering year-round inclusive wheelchair basketball, pickleball, tennis, and boccia for youth and adults with disabilities.
Cajun Wheelers
Louisiana's first youth wheelchair basketball program (ages 6–18) founded 2020, NWBA-affiliated, providing equipment and travel funding for young athletes with permanent lower-limb disabilities.
S.M.C.L. Foundation & Associates
Move United member chapter founded in 2006 providing adaptive and therapeutic recreational sports—including wheelchair basketball, tennis, football, and boccia—for veterans and civilians with disabilities in the Greater New Orleans area.
Louisiana GUMBO Inc.
Move United member running annual interscholastic track, field, and multi-sport competitions for youth and adults ages 5+ with physical, visual, hearing, or intellectual disabilities across Louisiana.
City of Shreveport SPAR Adaptive Sports
Shreveport Public Assembly & Recreation adaptive sports program offering diversified sports for individuals of all ages with disabilities in a therapeutic-recreation setting.
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