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Best Buddies is an organization that matches people with intellectual disabilities with college students in one-to-one friendships.
In the past, individuals with intellectual disabilities have not had the oppotunity to have friends outside of thier own, often isolated environments.
By becoming a College Buddy, volunteers offer a Buddy the chance to explore life in a new way!
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How can you get invovled?
Contact the student director:
Stephanie.Lehman@valpo.edu
to meet your Buddy! |
Valparaiso University Best Buddies
work with
Opportunity Enterprises
to match college students with their Buddy |
Check out the Best Buddies Calendar of Events!
Click HERE to see what we're up to!
Not Just a Vision,
Our Mission |
Founded in 1989 by anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies is the world's largest non-profit organization that provides enhanced opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. Best Buddies currently impacts over 250,000 people each year. |
Through mutually enriching friendships, Best Buddies volunteers gain a greater understanding of themselves and those with special needs.
Through Best Buddie, people with intellectual disabilities secure rewarding jobs, live independently, and most importantly, make life-changing friendships.
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For information on
Best Buddies or Indiana
Contact:
Jen Nucciarone
College Program Manager
1-800-89BUDDY
jennifernucciarone@bestbuddies.org |
Together, Best Buddies participants buils a more inclusive world, one friendship at a time. |
he student director: Stephanie.Lehman@valpo.edu |
