Unified Champion Schools: Play Unified. Live Unified.

Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® bring together students with and without intellectual disabilities through education, sports and youth leadership to provide them with the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to create and sustain school communities that promote acceptance and respect.

 The Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools strategy is aimed at promoting social inclusion through intentionally planned and implemented activities affecting systems-wide change. With sports as the foundation, the three component model offers a unique combination of effective activities that equip young people with tools and training to create sports, classroom and school climates of acceptance.

Together we are creating a Unified Generation that Chooses to Include.

Become a Unified Champion School  

Special Olympics Wyoming partners with pre-schools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges to implement or continue three main components of the Unified Champion Schools model.  Unified Sports®,  which allows students with and without intellectual disabilities the opportunity to participate in sporting activities alongside one another. Inclusive Youth Leadership, which allows students with and without intellectual disabilities an opportunity to take on leadership roles which promote Unified activities in the school and community, while delivering the message behind these initiatives, which advocates for respectful and equitable treatment of all people. Whole School Engagement, which allows opportunities for all students to participate in Unified School programming through sustained school-wide activities, which can include sports, education, leadership and advocacy initiatives. 

 Interested in becoming a Unified Champion School?