CP is the most common motor disability in childhood.
Cerebral palsy affects movement, balance, and posture. It is the most common motor disability in childhood.
Source: CDC
No one with cerebral palsy should be left without support.
Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation helps children, adults, and families affected by cerebral palsy access practical support, community connection, and dignity when they need it most.
IRS-recognized nonprofit
Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity.
A nonprofit organization building practical support for people affected by cerebral palsy.
Community is care
Cerebral palsy is lifelong. So is the need for connection.
Practical assistance, family stability, community inclusion, and advocacy can help prevent isolation before it becomes crisis.
Our mission
We help people with cerebral palsy stay supported, included, and connected.
Why this matters
Cerebral palsy is lifelong — but isolation should not be.
Cerebral palsy affects each person differently. Some people walk independently. Others need therapy, mobility equipment, communication support, transportation, help with daily living, or lifelong care.
When support is missing, disability can become a crisis — increasing the risk of exclusion, poor health, unsafe living situations, and isolation. Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation exists to help prevent that crisis.
CP
can affect movement, balance, posture, walking, speech, communication, independence, and daily life.
Some people need support for a season. Others need it for life.
Facts with context
A few facts explain why support matters.
These facts are intentionally limited and source-based. The goal is not to overwhelm visitors with statistics, but to show why practical support and community connection matter.
Support needs can last a lifetime.
Some people with cerebral palsy need special equipment, mobility support, or lifelong care. Support should not end when childhood ends.
Source: CDC
Early support can change a child’s future.
There is no cure for cerebral palsy, but treatment and early support can improve lives through therapy, braces, medicine, surgery, and coordinated care.
Source: CDC
Nearly 240 million children worldwide live with disabilities.
UNICEF estimates that nearly 240 million children around the world live with disabilities. Many face exclusion, discrimination, and barriers to education.
Source: UNICEF
1 in 6 people worldwide lives with significant disability.
WHO estimates that 1.3 billion people experience significant disability. Many face stigma, poverty, exclusion, barriers to care, and gaps in formal support.
Source: WHO
Disability and homelessness are connected.
In the United States, chronic homelessness is tied to disability under HUD’s definition. This is broader disability context, not a CP-specific count.
Source: HUD
Support can look like
Adaptive equipment
Daily care
Transportation
Respite for families
Families need support, not judgment.
Caring for a child or adult with cerebral palsy can require therapy, equipment, transportation, home adaptations, communication support, daily care, and emotional strength. Many families do everything they can — but no family should have to do it completely alone.
When support is missing, disability can become a crisis. Our goal is to help families stay stable, connected, and supported before crisis turns into isolation.
Many families do not fail because they do not love their children. They fail because they are left without support.
Connection matters
Isolation is not just emotional. It is a health risk.
Social connection matters. The U.S. Surgeon General has warned that loneliness and social isolation are linked to serious health risks, including depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, and premature death.
For people with cerebral palsy, connection is not a luxury. It is part of dignity, health, and survival.
Community connection can help people stay visible, valued, and included.
Practical support can prevent small problems from becoming major crises.
Support should not disappear when childhood ends.
What we believe
Dignity is not optional.
Our work is built around a simple conviction: with the right support, people with cerebral palsy and their families do not have to face life alone.
We believe a child with cerebral palsy should not be hidden.
Every child deserves therapy, communication, education, friendship, and joy.
We believe a parent should not have to fight alone.
Families need guidance, resources, respite, and community — not judgment.
We believe an adult with cerebral palsy should not disappear.
Support should not end when childhood ends. Adults with CP deserve housing stability, connection, dignity, and meaningful participation.
We believe disability should never become a sentence to isolation.
With the right support, people with CP can be seen, heard, included, and valued.
What support makes possible
Your support helps prevent isolation before it becomes crisis.
A wheelchair repair, a therapy visit, transportation to care, respite for a parent, communication support, assistive technology, help with daily needs, or simply a community that shows up — these supports can change the direction of a life.
Practical assistance
Help with urgent needs, adaptive equipment, transportation, care-related expenses, and essential support.
Family stability
Resources that help families continue caring for their loved ones safely and with dignity.
Community connection
Programs and outreach that reduce isolation and help people with CP feel seen and included.
Advocacy and awareness
Public education that challenges stigma and reminds the community that people with CP are children, adults, neighbors, friends, and family members.
Future vision
Technology should expand independence, not replace human dignity.
Caring support should always remain human. But technology can help close gaps when families are exhausted, caregivers are unavailable, or daily support is too expensive.
Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation is working toward making assistive technology more accessible to people who need it most — including communication tools, smart home support, adaptive systems, and emerging robotics that can support safety, independence, and daily living.
Our goal is not to replace human connection. Our goal is to expand independence, safety, dignity, and choice for people with cerebral palsy.
Communication tools that help people be heard and understood.
Smart home support that can improve safety and daily independence.
Adaptive systems and future robotics that may reduce isolation and expand care options.
Human-centered tools
Technology matters when it helps someone communicate, choose, and stay connected.
The goal is practical independence with people still at the center of care.
Your donation helps prevent isolation before it becomes crisis.
People with cerebral palsy and their families often need more than encouragement. They may need therapy, equipment, transportation, respite, communication tools, emergency assistance, or simply a community that does not look away.
Your support helps Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation provide practical help, connection, dignity, and future access to assistive technologies that can support safer, more independent living.
Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation directs donations toward mission-aligned charitable work with documentation, oversight, and care. Contributions support our charitable work and may be tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Trust and accountability
Building support responsibly from the start.
Our first priority is to build trust before we ask for scale: clear policies, careful documentation, financial controls, and public updates as the work grows.
As our work grows, we are committed to publishing organizational updates, public documents, program information, and financial reporting with clarity and care.
Nonprofit public benefit organization
Public organizational records and filings
Mission-aligned use of charitable funds
Conflict of interest policy
Financial controls policy
Participant eligibility and assistance policy
Board oversight and public updates