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Community Impact

Inclusive Mindsets Expand in 7 Regions Around the World

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Special Olympics Global Youth Engagement seeks to create inclusion in schools and communities around the world through the empowerment of youth, families, teachers, and other supporters.
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Family Health Forums

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Family Health Forums provide a space for the families and caregivers of people with intellectual disabilities to engage with health professionals, community leaders and social service providers.
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Healthy Communities

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Special Olympics Healthy Communities began in 2012 with an investment from the Golisano Foundation. As of 2025, Healthy Communities has been activated in 159 Special Olympics Programs and has yielded athlete engagement, increased attention to health from athletes and caregivers, and significantly increased health systems partnerships. Through support from the Golisano Foundation, and in the United States in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Special Olympics Healthy Communities works to increase access to quality health care and effective prevention programming to improve the health of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
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Partnerships and Health Systems

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Special Olympics partners with ministries and departments of health, United Nations agencies and other international organizations to create sustainable health systems and quality health services inclusive of people with intellectual disabilities around the world.
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Health Messengers

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The only way to end exclusion is to have people who face these challenges daily help create the solution.
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Healthy Athletes

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In 1997, Special Olympics Healthy Athletes began offering free health screenings and education to Special Olympics athletes in a welcoming, fun environment.
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Fitness

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Fitness is an important aspect of the Special Olympics mission. Physical activity, adequate nutrition and hydration enhance athletes’ sports performance and improve health and overall quality of life.
In the News

Zehra Sayin receives 2020 Special Woman Award

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In recognition for her leadership and passion, and her proven record in expanding the reach of the Special Olympics movement across Belgium, Zehra Sayin, CEO, Special Olympics Belgium, was awarded the 2020 Special Woman Award at the recent Belgian Sport Women Awards ceremony in Brussels, Belgium on Friday, 6 March 2020.
Latin America

Una mañana unificada con alumnos de 4to año del Colegio Emil Friedman

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Caracas, febrero: El pasado sábado 15 de febrero en las canchas deportivas del Colegio Emil Friedman, los alumnos de 4to año, con apoyo del Comité de Activación de Jóvenes de Olimpiadas Especiales Venezuela (OEV), organizaron una actividad donde lograron relacionarse y compartir con atletas de OEV.
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