Special Olympics Colorado Project Unify

03/05/2014

Hi Everyone,
Check out the video created by Manual High School's Project UNIFY class to promote the R-word campaign! Awesome Job!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eKTJTFh0Yk&feature=youtu.be

01/28/2014

Hi Everyone,
Check out the link below of State YAC member- Sarah Shea’s inclusive POMS team at Douglas County HS. Sarah received a SOCO/PU mini sub award to host an inclusive POMS workshop and then their POMS team performed at their Unified B-ball game and have had many requests for an encore performance in the near future! Way to go Sarah and the Douglas County HS Unified POMS team! Great JOB!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9L0LsaPbwY

Half time show

11/06/2013

Time to Boogie! Join us for our 2013 Special Olympics Colorado Inclusive PROM! Friday, November 8th, from 7-9 at Valor Christian High School hosted by our Project UNIFY State Youth Activation Committee.

10/22/2013

Calling all Young People... Join us for the 2013 Special Olympics Colorado Project UNIFY Youth Leadership Summit on Saturday, November 23rd. Learn how to support your fellow peers with special needs by making your school UNIFIED. We will teach you how to create Unified Sports, Partner's Clubs, R-word campaigns, "Cool Schools" Polar Plunge, and more. Check out www.specialolympicsco.org for all the information and to get signed up!!!

10/21/2013

Time to Boogie! Join us for our 2013 Special Olympics Colorado Inclusive PROM! Friday, November 8th, from 7-9 at Valor Christian High School hosted by our Project UNIFY State Youth Activation Committee.

04/10/2013

Interested in volunteering with our new Red Shirt Rookies Soccer program? Red Shirt Rookies is currently seeking volunteers for its before/after-school program to help teach team soccer skills to elementary students with and without disabilities. For more information, visit: http://specialolympicsco.org/join/project-unify/

Bringing together youth both with and without intellectual disabilities to motivate and activate acceptance and change through Inclusive Sports, Youth Leadership and Advocacy, and Whole School Engagement.

03/20/2013

National and State YAC members rocked it last week at the 2013 National Service Learning Conference where they represented Special Olympics and Project UNIFY by hosting a booth in the exhibit hall, leading an interactive breakout workshop on how The Youth of Today are the Leaders of Today and presenting a incredible key note speech during the conference plenary session! Our youth leaders certainly left their mark and touched many lives. Great Job!

03/20/2013

YAC representing SO/PU at the National Service Learning Conference

03/08/2013

Youth Leaders from Valor Christian High School's Special Olympics Club encourage their fellow peers to Spread The Word To End The Word

03/07/2013

Quotes from 4th graders at Graland Country Day School:

What does begin involved with the R-word campaign mean to you?

Weston: It means a lot to me because we are helping people that have intellectual disabilities. I have friends that have disabilities and it doesn't make them any different. It makes me sad and offended when I hear people use the r-word. I want to do my part to make a change.

Kendall: I feel good because I am helping people. I want to make them feel better. I don't want people to feel like the are being excluded and no one cares about them. I want to end the R-word because people use it the wrong way, they use it to mean stupid or dumb.

Sloan: I learned that even though some people are different, they are not less. I don't want people to continue to get hurt by one mean word.

Jeb: Being a part of this campaign has meant a lot to me. I want to stop the insults because there's really nothing different about people with intellectual disabilities. It's not about the outside, it's about the inside.

03/07/2013

2013 R-word campaign and school assembly

03/05/2013

First R-word campaign of the year!