River's Way

09/24/2025

🚶‍♀️✨ Walktober is back! ✨🚶‍♂️

Join the River’s Way Game Changers—young adults with differing abilities who inspire over 1,400 students each year to stay active—for a free community walk!

📅 Saturday, October 25 | 9–11 AM

📍 Tennessee Middle School Outdoor Track

Enjoy walking with the Game Changers and our community partners, a dance party, prize giveaway, and more...

Can’t make it to the event? Support us by donating at riversway.org or by sharing this post! 💙

09/15/2025

We are looking to grow our team here at River's Way!

Full job description and details at:
tinyurl.com/RWJOB2025

Email resumes to Matt@riversway.org

09/08/2025

🌸 Support River’s Way with Flowers + Coffee! ☕

Pre-order a $20 bouquet of fresh flowers from the River’s Way garden, paired with a medium drink from !

✨ All proceeds benefit River’s Way programs.

📅 Preorder by Wednesday, Sept. 11

📍 Pickup at Whimsicals on Friday, Sept. 12 | 7:30 AM – 2:00 PM

To Preorder: Stop by Whimsicals any day this week to fill out your preorder form and make your cash donation. Grab a coffee or some food while you're there 😎

Show some love to a friend—or brighten your own day—with flowers + coffee, all while supporting inclusion and community growth 💚

08/30/2025

River's Way had a good morning walk/run at the Bristol Morning Rotary Club Summer's End 5k and Youth Mile.

This event is a great way to kick off Labor Day weekend with fellow community members staying active!

08/18/2025

Sabrina Roberts Trujillo often spent her days staying active, but felt something important was missing—a place where laughter came easily and friendships flourished. She longed for a community where she could truly connect with others. When her mother found River's Way on Facebook, Sabrina decided to give it a try and soon discovered a welcoming community that supported her journey.

Read the full story here:
www.tinyurl.com/sabrina-2025

And consider donating to our Summer Giving Campaign by clicking the link below:
Tinyurl.com/GIVE2RW

07/09/2025

06/28/2025

Summer is in full swing at River's Way! Youth and young adults with differing abilities in our programs are strengthening their minds and bodies through physical activity and making great contributions to their community! Here is a look at some of our activities this summer:

🧑‍🌾 Gardening
🚶🚶‍♀️Walking
🏋️Strength Training and🧘Yoga
🚤Camp Friendship
🙏🏻Community Contributions
🥒🎾Pickelball
 📝Goal Setting

If you've spent any time with River's Way, then you must know about the 🧠Active Beast Mentality. We teach and apply the Active Beast Mentality in all of our programs. In order to be an Active Beast, you must:

1) Stay on task
2) Don't complain 
3) Encourage others

Through the Active Beast lens, our River's Way group is able to stay positive and make the biggest difference in our programs and our Bristol community!

06/21/2025

We'd like to thank the Bristol Tennessee City Schools administrators and staff for volunteering with us on a rainy day and accomplishing so much at our two garden locations! Volunteers built us new raised beds, did some much needed upkeep with our existing beds, mulch, and weeds, and even mounted our original sign that was located at the entrance to our former property on the South Holston River. We couldn't have accomplished these tasks without the support of these wonderful volunteers! 🙏🏻

This event was organized by United Way of Bristol TN & VA for Week of Caring.

04/28/2025

We had a great trip visiting this past weekend. The weather was fantastic and student volunteers prepared so many fun activities that kept us busy all day!

River's Way provides 4 of these opportunities annually, and they are always a blast for our young adults with differing abilities and E&H students!


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03/18/2025

Here is a group photo of the cast and crew of "Lessons from Shakespeare: How to Avoid a Personal Tragedy"

Our group had so much fun this past weekend performing on the .bristol stage! It's always amazing watching this entire group of young adults with differing abilities, staff, and volunteers encourage each other and work together to put on this annual production.

Thank you 🙏 to our fabulous audience members and supporters of all three performances, our community partners (.bristol and ), and everyone involved that made this weekend a success!

03/14/2025

Here are a few behind the scenes shots before our play this weekend. We have really enjoyed practicing at .bristol the past few weeks for our upcoming performances of "Lessons from Shakespeare: How to Avoid a Personal Tragedy"

Make sure to come see one of our three performances:

-Saturday, March 15th at 10:30am
-Saturday, March 15th at 5:30pm
-Sunday, March 16th at 2:30pm

Everyone involved in this show is a star ⭐ ✨ ⭐

Come support this group of talented individuals with differing abilities at River's Way and Theatre Bristol volunteers. You are guaranteed to laugh with us!

Tickets can be purchased at the box office or online at TheatreBristol.org/tickets

03/03/2025

Theatre Bristol and River’s Way present “Lessons from Shakespeare: How to Avoid a Personal Tragedy” on

💥March 15 at 10:30am
💥March 15 at 5:30pm
💥March 16 at 2:30 pm

Tickets are available online at TheatreBristol.org/tickets.

This production highlights the works of William Shakespeare as adapted by Dottie Havlik. It was created especially for the youth and young adults with differing abilities at River's Way.

“These River’s Way young adults and youth are so creative, and they’re so excited to be returning to the ARTspace stage,” said Havlik. “They’re learning true theatre lessons about taking directions, overcoming nervousness, and concentrating on a task. They have shown what they can do and they know how to entertain audiences.”

River’s Way, led by Executive Director Matt Kyle, is an organization dedicated to the positive and productive involvement of young people with disabilities in our community. ”We are very grateful to Theatre Bristol, and especially to Dottie Havlik, for providing us with an opportunity to participate in this community play,” said Kyle. “I cannot begin to describe the levels of excitement and anticipation that this play has generated for the students, graduates and staff of River’s Way. They are ready to go back on stage and earn some applause!”

Theatre Bristol and River’s Way thank the community for its support of this production, and people with differing abilities, and the arts. Working together to create live performance, we develop stories and memories that entertain and foster connections in our community among people of all abilities.

Tickets are $5 and will be available online and, pending available seating, at the door 30 minutes prior to showtime. Seating is general admission and for any special accommodations, please call or email the Theatre. Show information is also available online at www.TheatreBristol.org or by calling the message line at 423-212-3625.