Easter Seals Disability Services

Help Easter Seals help others rebuild their bodies, minds and lives!

Creating solutions and changing lives is what we do at Easter Seals. Join us and you, too, can make a difference and help people with disabilities achieve their goals. It is the hard work and dedication of loyal volunteers who make it all possible.

Need more convincing? In the words of Edgar "Daddy" Allen, founder of Easter Seals, "We have but one life. We get nothing out of that life except by putting something into it. To relieve suffering, to help the unfortunate, to do kind acts and deeds is, after all, the one sure way to secure happiness or to achieve real success. Your life and mine shall be valued not by what we take...but by what we give."

Easter Seals Greater Hartford Rehabilitation Center relies upon volunteers to plan our fundraising events. Interested individuals can join an event committee or help on the day of an event. Our events run throughout the year and include a black-tie gala, a golf tournament, and volleyball and softball marathon weekends. For more information on our events, visit our events page. To volunteer, please contact us.

We would like to extend a special thanks to our event committee volunteers for their continued support, energy, and hard work on our annual fundraising events. Because of their loyal participation, our events continue to prosper and help people with disabilities.


Special thanks to James Chakulski, Revenue Examiner, State of Connecticut Department of Revenue Services. 

For 28 years, players, families and friends have made the Easter Seals annual Softball Marathon a tradition; a day of great fun and an opportunity to do something good for people who are recovering from an accident, stroke or birth defects. Every dollar raised has gone directly to the Greater Hartford Rehabilitation Center to help our neighbors in need.

For 14 of those years, James Chakulski has dedicated his time to the well being of the patients at Easter Seals Greater Hartford Rehabilitation Center.   Each year, Jim and his supporting teammates have gone above and beyond any moral obligation of putting time aside to do a good deed.  He has become one of the center’s most dedicated volunteers. 

In 2009, Jim’s softball team, inDRStructible, raised enough money to become the tournament’s leading sponsor.  Their contributions helped raise approximately $10,000 of net proceeds which went directly to help those with disabilities in our neighboring communities.  Collectively, the State of Connecticut, Department of Revenue Services, has raised over $38,000 within their 14 year commitment with Easter Seals Greater Hartford Rehabilitation Center.

We thank Jim, his teammates, and others from the Department of Revenue Services, for their continued commitment to the center and for helping rebuild the bodies, minds and lives of those who live with disabilities in our communities.