Murfreesboro, TN - Special Kids received a $30,000 grant from The Baptist Healing Trust which recently  awarded funds totaling over $1.8 million to 57 local nonprofits for a variety of health related projects, according to President & CEO Cathy Self. The mission of the Baptist Healing Trust is to be a caring ministry devoted to healing with love in the Christian tradition.

The grant will be used for Special Kids’ summer day camp, Camp Ability, which serves children with special needs in middle Tennessee.  The grant funding allows Camp Ability to serve children between the ages of 6-25 years in the months of June and July this year.  The summer day camp helps children with special needs work towards the goals of greater self-esteem, increased levels of physical activity, and life skills development.

“The Baptist Healing Trust has played a substantial role in the success of Camp Ability,” said Jan Parker, Director of Foundation Investments at Special Kids. “With their partnership, Special Kids has been blessed to provide this vital service to children with special needs since 2007.”

Recipients of the contributions include nonprofit organizations from all over middle Tennessee working to help create access to quality, compassionate health services for the community’s most vulnerable.  This year’s grants bring the collective grant making of the Baptist Healing Trust to over $55 million since 2002.  The Baptist Healing Trust was created when Baptist Hospital in Nashville sold to St. Thomas Health Services, a ministry of Ascension Health in St. Louis, Missouri.

Special Kids is a Christian, nonprofit organization located in Murfreesboro, TN, that gives therapeutic rehabilitation and professional nursing services to children with special needs. Since 1998, Special Kids has served over 2,200 families from 11 counties in middle Tennessee. For more information on Special Kids, please visit specialkidstn.com or call 615.893.4892.