Flip For Function offers therapeutic gymnastics and occupational therapy. Their mission is to unlock potential by strengthening minds, bodies and confidence of children impacted by physical, cognitive and mental challenges, through exercise & fitness so they may experience a sense of belonging and achievement and push past limits in all areas of their lives.

Chasity McMillan, the founder of Flip For Function, is an Occupational Therapist, earning her Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from Belmont University. She is a USA gymnastics member and has coached all ages, levels and abilities up to Pre-Team. She managed a large gym club in California for 10 years, where she zeroed in on her passion for teaching others about the benefits of gymnastics, how to engage with children of all abilities and needs and make gymnastics accessible for all. In CA, she developed a gymnastics program in partnership with a local OT clinic, involving adapting and modifying skills as well as training coaches on best practices for inclusion. Now, she has brought inclusive gymnastics paired with OT to Middle Tennessee with the founding of Flip For Function.

Listen to Alison and Chasity discuss the importance of Occupational Therapy, inclusion in the recreational space, and accessibility for all.

Elizabeth Saum is a Nashville native. She went to the University of Tennessee and is now a financial analyst for a healthcare company. She is also in charge of Foundation for the Delta Gamma Nashville Alumni group. Service for Sight is very important to her as she has a vision impairment herself. She says she has received so much support from her sisters in Delta Gamma and hopes to raise more awareness for those who are also visually impaired.

Emma Hawes is a healthcare sales professional living in Nashville, TN. Upon moving to Nashville in 2017, Hawes has been active with the Nashville Area Delta Gamma Alumnae chapter. There she has held roles within Panhellenic, Programming, and most recently President. She was awarded the Hope award from Delta Gamma Fraternity on a national level due to her service. Outside of Delta Gamma she’s a provisional advisor in Junior League of Nashville.

Elizabeth and Emma join us in this episode of the BEST Together podcast to discuss Delta Gamma's official philanthropic mission, Service for Sight, and how that mission is followed on a national and state level.

In 2007, Judy Byrd got involved in the blind community by volunteering at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2010, she agreed to help start a beep baseball team. For the next seven years, she was the manager of the Atlanta Eclipse Beep Baseball Team. While practicing with the new team, she noticed that all the beep baseball players were older teens and adults, wondering what team sport the younger kids who were visually impaired were playing. To fill this gap, Judy created Beep Kickball. Fourteen years later, over 700 beep kickballs have been sold around the country, in Canada and Australia. Since retiring in 2012, she has been heavily involved in promoting Camp Abilities. For most children in the United States, participating in sports and spending time with peers is a given. But for children who are visually impaired, these are not givens. Camp Abilities, a worldwide, week-long camp for children with blindness or vision impairment provides the environment, the support and the expectation that all children can participate on the ball field, the tennis courts or anywhere! Camp Abilities is an educational sports camp, but for children who are visually impaired, it’s one week where sports, recreation and making new friends IS a given.

In this month’s episode of BEST Together, Alison sat down with Judy to discuss Beep Kickball and all things Camp Abilities.