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Understanding Leadership

This module takes you through the next step of discovering who you are as a leader and recognizing the value you bring as you continue your leadership journey.

Athlete Leadership

Introduction to Athlete Leadership

In this module athletes learn about Athlete Leadership and begin to explore their skills and interests.

Athlete Leadership

The Leadership & Skills curriculum for Athlete Leadership is designed to provide athletes with leadership training as well as personal development that they can apply to leadership roles in their Program, community and workplace.

Leadership Development

Unified Leadership

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Building from sport, Unified Leadership teaches leaders of all abilities to value and learn from each other, and create environments where people with ID succeed in meaningful roles.

Sports & Coaching

Powerlifting

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Coaching guide, rules and other materials for coaches.

Healthy Start

In this Healthy Start Toolkit, you will hear from other families and find resources to guide your child’s journey following a diagnosis of developmental delay (DD) or intellectual disability (ID).

Junior Athletes

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Junior Athletes provides an age-appropriate introduction to sports for children with and without intellectual disabilities, ages 6 – 12 years old. Resources for Junior Athletes include a comprehensive implementation guide and sport-specific curricula from Special Olympics sport federation partners. These sport-specific, inclusive, and age-appropriate activities are not meant to be structured as a new Special Olympics program or initiative, but rather can be used to support a child’s transition to traditional Special Olympics participation, or as an introduction to Unified Sports.

Leadership Development

Athlete Spokesperson

The role of an Athlete Spokesperson is to promote, educate, and inform others about the mission, benefits, and direction of Special Olympics. It goes beyond giving public speeches and interviews, it is about spreading the word about the Special Olympics movement through different outlets.

The purpose of the Athlete Spokesperson training course is to train athletes the required leadership skills that will allow them to participate effectively as spokespeople.

Leadership Development

Athlete Representative

Athletes need to drive Special Olympics work. To achieve this, there needs to be athlete representation on all leadership groups. Athlete Representatives help set policy, make recommendations for continuous improvement, introduce new ideas, and implement those ideas to improve local programming.

The purpose of the training is to equip athlete leaders with leadership skills that allow them to participate effectively as Athlete Representatives.

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