About Us
We are a non-profit 501 (c)(3) special needs center. Our center provides relief for parents and guardians year-round through activities of all sorts for their loved ones. We pride ourselves on our educated staff and amazing sensory based facility. The Adaptive Movement Center is where special needs of all ages (3yrs – adult) can come and we adapt to them and to the environment that they need.
Our Center
Our special needs community needs somewhere they can completely call their own, that conforms completely to them. We provide a center that is open in the evenings after school, on weekends and during the day in the summers that they can come and feel comfortable in with their peers. We have a committee board that is run by our special needs friends, where they can vote and decide on their monthly activities, entertainers, other equipment they would like us to purchase and much more.
Lacey Pac Adaptive Movement Center provides an extra-curricular facility for children and adults with special needs and disabilities of all ages. Creating an adaptive atmosphere that caters to the special needs community and provides activities, therapy, life skills, interacting of peers and much more.
A city that acknowledges their special needs community, understands them, and adapts to them so that they can live a fulfilled life alongside their typical and non-typical peers.
Our Team
Our AMC Staff is a highly educated and experienced group of therapists and teachers who have worked alongside many different special needs children in and around the Tuscarawas County Area.
Mrs. Lacey is the CEO and founder of the Lacey Pac Adaptive Movement Center. She is the owner of Lacey Performing Arts Center a local dance studio in New Philadelphia. After her son was diagnosed with Autism at age 18 months, Lacey knew she wanted to learn more about special needs. She began by adding Sensory and Movement Classes to her dance studio, where Mrs. Farrah & Mrs. Carie began teaching. The program grew and she met lots of wonderful parents going through the same things she was. After seeing a huge need for more programs for special needs children and adults she started researching, she found that there were no facilities for them to attend that were focused on fun and spending time with their peers. That is where the Lacey Pac Adaptive Movement Center was born. Lacey wanted a place that her son and all the special needs children and adults could call their own, a place that adapted to them rather than them adapting to it. She hopes that each child and adult that walk through the Adaptive Movement Center doors feel at home and safe!
Mrs. Farrah is our head instructor at the Adaptive Movement Center along with a licensed Masso Therapist and the Occupational Therapy Assistant at Starlight Schools. She has been working with children & adults with special needs since 2004. In her free time, she is a video creator, blogger, author and illustrator of children's books and enjoys spending time with her husband traveling.
Mrs. Carie is the Secretary on the A.M.C board and is our second head instructor. She has her bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and is a licensed Early Childhood Intervention Specialist. Mrs. Carie has been working in the special needs community since 2002. She is currently pursuing her master's degree and is a Developmental Specialist with Early Intervention for the Tuscarawas Board of DD. In her free time, she enjoys being a wife and mother and spending time with friends and family.
Miss Brooke is one of the Assistant Teachers at the A.M.C. Miss Brooke has her bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and has been teaching since 2016. She has worked with many different age groups and different special needs children. She babysits for multiple families with special needs children and has been one on one with her Autistic nephew since he was diagnosed. Brooke helps at Lacey Performing Arts Center with tumbling and cheerleading classes and is looking forward to all the new friends she is going to meet at the Adaptive Movement Center.
Miss Chelsea is the Vice President & Treasurer on the board of the Adaptive Movement Center and the Administrative Assistant. Chelsea followed Lacey's lead when it came to opening the Adaptive Movement Center and continues to go above and beyond to learn more about the special needs community and how to make sure the Center will provide it what it needs. With her marketing skills and management experience she strives to ensure a seamless process in the way the Center is run. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her 2 kids and family.
Our Promise
Support Us
Every donation is appreciated as it goes towards our special needs friends who attend the facility and it helps pay for either their tuition, field trips or much more. If you would like to be a premium supporter/investor into our facility you can send checks to 117 S Broadway or email us [email protected] or you can drop off donations to First National Bank of Dennison (just reference Lacey Pac Adaptive Movement Center)
Silver: Superior Clay, New Philadelphia VFW, Authentic Church, Device Independent, Tusky VFW, Kevin & Wendy Gray.
Gold: Dover Hydraulics, Scott & Lisa Tritt, J&G Beef
Platinum: Provia, Rainbow Connection
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