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CREATING A MORE INCLUSIVE WORLD

We are making the world a more inclusive one for people with and without intellectual disabilities. We work together to ensure that everyone has the right to play, learn and live together. We are the Unified Generation.

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SHAPING POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATES

Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® is a strategy for schools Pre-K through university that intentionally promotes meaningful social inclusion by bringing together young people with and without intellectual disabilities (ID) to lead in the creation of accepting school environments, utilizing three interconnected components: Special Olympics Unified Sports®, inclusive youth leadership, and whole-school engagement.

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Our Three Components

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Learn Unified: Whole School Engagement

Whole School Engagement is one of three components of a Unified Champion School when awareness and education activities that promote ...

Play Unified: Unified Sports & Unified PE

Special Olympics Unified Sports is one of three components that make up a Special Olympics Unified Champion School. This as ...
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Live Unified: Inclusive Youth Leadership

Inclusive Youth Leadership is one of three components of a Unified Champion School when students with and without intellectual disabilities ...
Eighty percent of students who to to know a student with an intellectual disability through Unified Champion Schools considered this person to be their
Children with intellectual disabilities are two to three times more likely to be bullied than their peers without intellectual disabilities.
94% of teachers/ school staff say Unified Champion Schools increases opportunities for students with and without ID to work together.
Through Unified Champion Schools, friendships are formed.
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Special Olympics is a tax exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Special Olympics Identification Number (EIN) is 52-0889518.