Torrington Area Families for Autism-TAFA

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T.A.F.A. Inc is a registered 501c3 charitable non-profit organization focused on increasing autism awareness, acceptance and inclusion.

11/03/2026

🎃👻🧩 Our 5th Annual T.A.F.A. Sensory-Friendly Trick-or-Treat at KidsPlay Children's Museum was a smashing success 🤗 On Friday night, alongside the City of Torrington’s Halloween Hoopla, we hosted 60 trick-or-treaters and their families for a total of more than 140 people. This private, adaptive Halloween event celebrated festive fun for all ages and abilities ❤️demonstrating a core pillar of our mission at T.A.F.A. To ensure intentional, supportive community opportunities promoting meaningful inclusion, visibility and accessibility for all 🥰

Thank you to every trick-or-treater, family member and volunteer who helped make it such a beautiful night ❤️
Special thanks to:
Northwest CT Community Foundation NW Corner Gives Campaign for helping us fund our annual calendar of adaptive holiday event celebrations 🎉
Downtown Torrington Cultural District for the amazing Halloween Hoopla Celebration highlighting our downtown ❤️
KidsPlay for their collaboration & partnership on this event each year ❤️
Creative Parties For Kids, Suzy Q the clown, for face painting and balloon art ❤️
And…
The BE READY Project
Summit Adaptive Sports
Happy Day Spelling, Melanie Jamison Jones
Family & Children's Aid
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Brooker Memorial
Liz Soulard Chickos
Sandy Vargas-Mancini
Chris & Melissa Hebert
Shawn Draczynski Tobin
Eve VVolftrand
State Representative Joe Canino - Torrington
For their donations of candy and treats that left all of our guests with happy smiles!
😊🍫🍭🍬🤗

We were so busy having fun with friends 🤗we didn’t snap a lot of pics, please feel free to share additional event pictures with us in the comments 😊

11/02/2026

Hoping all of our T.A.F.A. friends had a wonderful Halloween weekend ❤️🎃🧩
There were years that stress-free, successful trick-or-treating didn’t seem possible at our house; but we kept trying because practice makes progress.
No matter how big, or small, that progress looks from year to year it deserves to be celebrated because we are all out here giving all we’ve got for our kiddos who try their best every day.
Whatever your Halloween looked like, I hope you got more treats than tricks. I know us parents could certainly use the extra sugar to help us through daylight savings 🍫😅

10/28/2026

2 giant bags of craft pumpkins for our sensory-friendly trick-or-treaters ✅
Trips to Dollar Tree and Michael’s ✅
Now onto packing up decorations, candy, goodies, and more crafts! 🤪

10/23/2026

Thank you to the families who continue to make our T.A.F.A. village what it is 🙏🏻🥰
We know that the journey of having a child with autism can feel very isolating and overwhelming in a world not quite designed for our family’s unique needs. We aim to always hold space where the joys, sadness, triumphs, challenges, and nuances of that journey can be shared with compassion, validation and support ❤️🧩

Thank you Jimmy’s Store for the delicious food! 🤗😋
Thank you Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism for generously supporting our support group meetings 🧩❤️

10/22/2026

We welcome individuals with special needs of all ages and their families to join us for an awesome evening of sensory-friendly Halloween fun!!
Be sure to PRE-register here:
https://tafainc.app.neoncrm.com/event-detail?event=421

Hope to see you there 🤗👻🎃🍭

10/22/2026

Tonight at T.A.F.A’s Common-Unity Center 6-7:30pm 😊
Parents and families are central to everything we do at T.A.F.A! I will be running tonight’s meeting as a chance for both new and returning parents to network, ask questions/ learn more about T.A.F.A., share input and stories, and continue to inform our organizational direction ensuring that real community needs remain the greatest driver of our mission ❤️🧩

https://tafainc.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F60808

Hope to see you there!
-Christina

10/19/2026

Thank you Kimberly Johnson for bringing Lunging Tiger Adaptive Karate classes to T.A.F.A.! ❤️🥋
We are pumped to begin a new 6-month session in January 🤗

Thank you Hartford HealthCare for supporting T.A.F.A.’s adaptive recreation programs, and helping us make classes like this possible in our community 🎉

10/19/2026

Thank you lunging tiger karate for this amazing opportunity to have adaptive karate at T.A.F.A.! Everyone is loving classes and excited to launch another 6 month series in January! ❤️🥋

10/19/2026

So thankful for the on-going partnership and collaboration with The Center For Dance Arts providing adaptive dance to our community ❤️🎉
To join us, register here: https://app.gostudiopro.com/online/thecenterfordancearts

10/19/2026

🤗🎉 SO excited to announce our 2nd Annual T.A.F.A. Adaptive Prom!!
A night that is truly about celebrating our teens and young adults and the beauty of inclusive community opportunities!
We can’t wait to treat our guys and girls like the kings and queens they are 🥰👑

Please consider joining us as a volunteer, sponsor or donor to ensure the most magical night possible for our guests of honor. Scan the QR code for more details 😊

Address

75 High St
Winsted, CT
06098

Website

http://www.TAFAInc.org/

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