Special Olympics North Carolina

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. Special Olympics aims to combine high quality sports with a wide audience, and be a driving force for social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.

Special Olympics works with schools, community programs, health organization and volunteers to deliver sports and health programming for people with and without intellectual disabilities. In North Carolina we have about 100 programs across the state providing up to 20 sports and a variety of health programming both in-person and online. We have very active programs in Guilford and Forsyth Counties.