Pools of Hope
Aquatic exercise and therapy, adaptive sports training
At a glance
- Category
- Health & Wellness
- How it's listed
- Recommended by the military community. We have not rated or endorsed it.
- Focus
- Aquatic exercise and therapy, adaptive sports training
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
About Pools of Hope
Published by Pools of Hope on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
About Us
Each year, Pools of Hope provides therapeutic, rehabilitative, and recreational services to improve wellness for over 2,000 diverse populations of children, veterans, seniors, and adults with a disability, injury or chronic condition. Our warm water pools are credited with helping people to improve their physical, mental and social well-being. Learn about how we started.
About Us
Committed to equitable access of inclusive aquatic wellness services
Each year, Pools of Hope provides therapeutic, rehabilitative, and recreational services to improve wellness for over 2,000 diverse populations of children, veterans, seniors, and adults with a disability, injury or chronic condition. Our warm water pools are credited with helping people to improve their physical, mental and social well-being. Learn about how we started.
Our Mission:
Whole-life wellness
To provide a warm water facility promoting whole life wellness in our community.
Pools of Hope is dedicated to providing inclusive, accessible and affordable aquatic therapeutic programs for the community, specializing in adaptive services for people with special health needs. Our ADA-approved facility offers a safe environment to engage in exercise and rehabilitative activities for people that have difficulties participating on land. The warm waters foster a sense of freedom, movement and well-being. Our preventative health education and outreach services promote positive health outcomes and enable Pools of Hope participants to live their best lives.
60+ Years of Service
Our History
The California Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Services, Inc. —best known as Pools of Hope— history began in 1956, in a small backyard pool, by a dedicated civic leader and professional swimmer, Mrs. Evelyn duPont. Ms. duPont had developed polio as an adult and rehabilitated herself through aquatic therapy. Her own recovery inspired her to open the backyard pool to provide free swim lessons to children with disabilities, ensuring that all youth had access to therapeutic activities.
Pools of Hope was later incorporated and became a non-profit 501(c)3 organization on April 17, 1963. With widespread support from the community, Pools of Hope purchased a free-standing outdoor pool facility at 6801 Long Beach Boulevard, in Long Beach, CA, to enable more community members to benefit from aquatic services. In 1977, a major renovation was completed to enclose the facility for year-round usage, which also allowed us to expand services to people of all ages living with symptoms of aging, chronic conditions, injuries, or a disability.
We’ve gone through a number of names over the years: California Pools for the Handicapped (1963), the California Pools of Hope, Inc. (1996), and California Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center, Inc. (2009) — however, we are best known in the North Long Beach community simply as the Pools of Hope.
Our write-up
Pools of Hope is in our directory because the military community keeps recommending it. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: caaquatictherapy.com/veterans-programs
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