Families

Families are at the heart of Special Olympics, championing inclusion, building community, and driving impact every day. Whether you're new or already involved, there are countless ways to connect, lead, and grow with us.

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Family Engagement Toolkit and Resources

Find practical tools, templates, and strategies to help strengthen family engagement, celebrate family voices, and support inclusive planning across the movement.

Special Olympics Handbook for Effective Family Engagement

Handbook for Program leaders who want to engage family members with close connections to the Program.

Core Resources for Family Engagement

Essential tools and strategies to help Programs engage, support, and retain families—available in multiple languages.

Communications & Promotional Materials

Banners, icons, templates, and more to help promote family engagement across events and platforms.

Forms & Templates

Ready-to-use materials for family registration, official communications, and training recognition.

Family Member Resources

Guides and tools to help families get involved, understand their role, and explore ways to volunteer and support.

A woman in a yellow Lions Clubs vest hugging a young boy and both are smiling.

Family Training

Designed to train families as leaders in the movement. This training can be used at any level of the organization.

How to Integrate Families

Engage, educate, and empower families so they become impactful teachers of inclusion.

Decision Making

Much like athlete leaders in decision-making, we must also engage families who offer unique insight and lived experience.

Review Process

Families offer insight when reviewing documents, strategies, and plans. Their experience helps ensure language and priorities reflect family needs.

Story Telling

Share stories of families and highlight their role in advancing inclusion. These stories inspire others and help us learn what truly works in communities.

Add to Advisory Groups

Including families on advisory groups and councils brings essential perspectives rooted in daily experience. Their voices help shape more effective decisions.

Stories From the Home

The voices, journeys, and moments of families in the Special Olympics movement.

Unified Partners medaling at Special Olympics event.

In the News

A Father-Son Team Teeing Up for USA Games

For Jacob Murasko, few things beat a sunny day on the golf course with his dad, Paul, by his side. Golf isn’t just their shared hobby, it’s their connection, their laughter, their way of showing up for each other. And now, that connection is taking them somewhere incredible: the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games, where they’ll compete together as Unified partners.