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Community outings
Out & About
Weekly field trips into Atlanta and beyond—museums, the Capitol, the Delta Flight Museum, public libraries, parks, and restaurants.
Program details →ACEF empowers adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through community, sustainable creation, and innovation — toward self-sufficiency and entrepreneurial success.
A Day with ACEF · Capitol Tour, Atlanta
Our work rests on four pillars: Advocacy, Community, Innovation, and Giving. Together they shape a year of outings, learning, member-led enterprise, and the simple, important act of including people who too often get left out.
A community of friends and staff that shows up, week after week. Faces become family.
Museums, capitols, libraries, parks, restaurants—the city, on our members' terms.
Birthdays, holidays, milestones. The big moments and the small ones, never alone.
Weekly field trips into Atlanta and beyond—museums, the Capitol, the Delta Flight Museum, public libraries, parks, and restaurants.
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Painting, crafts, gardening, music, and small-group projects. A regular practice of making something, no skill level required.
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Accessible playgrounds, bowling, arcades, walks, and adaptive sports. Time outside, time moving, time laughing with friends.
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Halloween, Valentine's, gingerbread builds, birthdays, the annual gala. The big moments and the small ones, never alone.
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Reading, computer time, money sense, cooking, and personal-care routines—taught patiently, practiced together.
Program details →Behind every number is a member we know by name, a family we've come to love, and a Tuesday morning that looks the same and feels different. Here is what a decade of consistency has built.
For years I worried about what would happen on the days Marcus wasn't in school. ACEF didn't just give him a place to go. They gave him friends. He talks about them at dinner. He looks forward to Tuesdays. That's a gift I never thought we'd have.
A small window into the bigger picture—real members, real days, real friends.
Our biggest night of the year. Members, families, partners, music, and a silent auction of work from the Studio.
Visit the center, meet the staff, and bring lunch with us. For families thinking about joining.
A longstanding partner opens its hangar for our members and their families. Free, ages welcome.
Donations fund the bus, the studio supplies, the tickets, the lunches—the literal cost of a day. Every dollar reaches a member.
Come to a Saturday outing. Lead a workshop. Drive a van. Even a few hours a month is a real difference.
Host a visit at your business or venue. Sponsor a quarter of programming. Build a long-term relationship that opens doors for our members.