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Building Healthier, Inclusive Schools Through the Special Olympics Inclusive Healthy Lifestyle Groups in Schools Project

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Learn how this EU-funded Special Olympics project has been transforming the lives of students with and without intellectual disabilities in Europe for the past three years.
Community Impact

ESPN’s Unified Sports Challenge Takes on Allianz Field

By RJ Nealon, June 23, 2026
Tim Shriver and members of Team Shriver cheer and raise their arms in celebration after a successful event during the 2026 ESPN Unified Sports Challenge at Allianz Field.
On the University of Minnesota campus, the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games is showcasing 16 sports, and 3,000 athletes from across the country are here to win one thing—gold.
Blog

My Employment Journey: Part of the Equation

By Renee Manfredi, October 10, 2022
A graphic promotes National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
With National Disability Employment Awareness Month right around the corner, I've been reflecting on my own employment journey. My journey to the job I currently have was not one that I planned and it didn't go as easy as one, two, three. It was and still is a journey of faith. You see, when I left high school, I faced barriers in qualifying for disability resources and vocational training that I had been told would help prepare me to enter the workplace. As I applied for services, I was told I was either too high functioning or too low functioning to receive these services. I had a lot of time to wonder, and even be afraid of what my future might hold. The workplace had always been a scary place for me. I wasn’t so worried about the type of job I would get; I was worried about the support I would receive to be successful in my job.
R-Word Resource Archive

The Effects of the R-Word

Advocates explain why the R-word is so hurtful when used in jokes or as part of everyday speech.
Media Library

Advocacy - A Salvaged Life

Eunice Kennedy Shriver dedicated herself to the cause of intellectual disability early on, at a time when the nation didn't devote a second's thought to people with intellectual disabilities, some thought they should be locked up in dark rooms and some were frightened and intimidated by them. But mostly, nobody cared.
Press Releases

FanSided and Special Olympics Return to Super Bowl Media Row with Unified Reporting Team in Ongoing Commitment to Inclusion

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FanSided Hires Special Olympics Florida Athlete and Sportscaster, Malcom Harris-Gowdie as Unified Reporter for all Super Bowl Week and Big Game Coverage
Press Releases

AJPH Supplement Spotlighting Special Olympics Health Programming Demonstrates How Inclusive Public Health Spaces Improve the Health of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Implementing strategies to improve health outcomes in all communities requires public health spaces to include people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) at the table when it comes to policy, funding and research decisions.
Athletes

How Fitness and Health Go Hand-in-Hand: Fima on Supporting Athlete Wellness

By Renee Dease, August 07, 2026
A two-photo collage. On the left is a woman smiling at the camera, and on the right is a young man sitting on the floor, giving a thumbs up, and smiling at the camera.
This month, I met with Fimanekeni (Fima) Hamutenya, a Special Olympics Namibia athlete, whose experience as a Fitness Captain and Health Messenger helped him rebuild his confidence and inspired him to help his fellow athletes live healthier, more active lives.
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