Special Olympics Utah (SOUT) received a grant from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation. The grant’s overall goal is to promote impactful advocacy by people with ID through the funding of passion projects designed and carried out by SOUT athlete leaders.
SOUT selected project pairs (an athlete leader and a mentor) from across the state of Utah to create a passion project. The training covered project management, goal setting, telling your story, and project presentation.
Michelle Wolfenbarger and Emily Rissinger are the support coordinators for the project.
Project Goal
The project targets outreach of 1,500 to 4,000 people. Using the outline below, if we just hit 35% of this it would give us a baseline of 1,500 people in outreach.
At Publication
- Engage Champion School programs in Utah
- The Utah PTA Advocacy Conference would be an ideal space for us to present. We would ask for support from SOUT and ShowUp Utah can help us get a spot in the conference
- Local bookstore events, and Public Library events
- School District invites would likely require some work, with focus on speaking to SpEd classes, assemblies, and inclusion clubs
- Work with local media (Good Day Utah, ABC4, etc) to promote a young author with a disability publishing a book on why inclusion matters, it could be significant as well.
