Special Needs at Trinity

05/20/2026

So important to remember for those of us who are special needs parents!

05/14/2026

A community event for all abilities this weekend! Check it out!

05/03/2026

Gonna be an awesome time!!!

Saturday the 16th!! All are welcome!!!

05/01/2026

Great event coming up! This is one of those weekends with lots of awesome community events going on.

🐝 JACKSONVILLE BEE EVENT – MAY 16 🐝

Special thanks to Beachy Honeybees. Famous Events WorldwideJacksonville 95ers LISC Jacksonville Giplings We COPE FSA RECS
Pre-order your tickets ASAP in the café to reserve your spot!
Spots are limited and this event will fill up quickly.

🎟️ Band Options:
$10 – Access to 12 stations
$25 – Access to all 15 stations + your own custom-made t-shirt

⏰ Doors open at 11:00 AM
⏰ Event starts at 11:30 AM
⏰ Event ends at 4:00 PM

🍯 12–1 Live bee hive demo
🍯 Amazing local honey tasting
🎨 Over 15 interactive learning, art, games & prize stations
🎁 Gift bag with prizes & more will be given for each band purchase.
🐝 Bee costume contest with prizes

Bring a canned good to support our community ❤️

Get your tickets early. Secure your spot.
Bee there… it’s going to be amazing 🐝

04/30/2026

We are always trying!!!! May God grant us the wisdom we need! 🙏💙

To those who see, know, or love parents of kids with disabilities, there's something us parents want you to know: we are always trying.

A friend of mine messaged me recently about the extreme behaviors her child with an intellectual disability was displaying. Something, I’m familiar with. But she followed it up by saying, “My family thinks I don’t discipline him enough. They don’t get it.”

She’s right. They don’t. They can’t.

So, let me help you try to understand our families just a little bit better.

The behaviors are something many of us parents are constantly managing. We’ve gone to classes, we’ve read books, we’ve tried strategies, stopped those strategies, and started them again, stopped again, found a new method and…repeat.

Our kid’s behaviors also come in waves. My son went into a downward trend after Christmas that lasted through February. Then one day it faded.

Nothing we did, to my knowledge, brought him out of it. We managed symptoms but did not provide a cure.

For now, this is part of his life. And we are trying. My friend is trying. We are all trying.

Sometimes our trying looks like taking a more hands-off approach and sometimes it’s more hands-on. Sometimes it looks similar to how we parent our typically developing children, and sometimes it looks starkly different.

Living in a world not accessible to them takes more effort. Parenting them often takes more effort.

So, when you think we should be doing more to intervene, know that our current way of dealing might be doing less. If you think we are being too harsh, maybe our kids are more capable of understanding than you realize.

The bottom line is we are parenting disabled children in a world that is not accommodating to them.

We are trying to figure out how to best accommodate them.

Sometimes, they are exhausted. Sometimes we are, too.

We want the world to have high expectations of our kids, while also realizing that they need more support and grace in the process.

We try to remember these things ourselves. And it is a constant balancing act.

We know you can’t know our lives. But know this: we are always trying.

04/24/2026

Take just a moment to be encouraged! 🫶

04/20/2026

For our autism moms and all who advocate for their special needs children—We see you. HE sees you. 🫶

04/15/2026

Floating Sea Aquatics is a great place to check out even if you can’t make this particular event!