Governance

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• Governance
• Workshop
• Date
• Location
• Trainer

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Introductions

• Name
• Where are you from?
• How long have you been involved in Special
  Olympics?
• Question If you could be any animal, what would
  you be?
• Introduce your partner.

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Objectives of Workshop

• Develop confidence
• Learn to express opinions
• Listen to other ideas
• Learn to work in a group to solve a problem
• Find out what athletes think is important
• Purpose To learn how to discuss problems and
  come up with solutions that will
• be best for Special Olympics

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Athlete Leadership Programs

• Athlete Choice
• Meaningful positions
• Training for existing leadership

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Athlete Leadership Programs

• Global Messenger
• Governance
• Athletes as Volunteers
• (Coaches Officials)

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Your Responsibility

• As an athlete
• As a mentor
• As staff
• As a family member
• As a Board member

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Your Role as a Representative

• What is your most important role as a
• representative of Special Olympics?
• Educate/Promote in an articulate, knowledgeable,
  convincing manner
• Know the facts about Special Olympics

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At the Tip of your Tongue

• Key Elements of the Philosophy
• All abilities can participate in sports, can
  achieve, do have value
• Selling Points/the Brand
• Special Olympics changes lives
• Special Olympics inspires all
• Special Olympics creates heroes
• Special Olympics celebrates differences
• Mission

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Mission
Year-round sports training

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Mission
Athletic competition

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Mission
Olympic-type sports

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Mission
Children and adults (eight years old or older)
with intellectual disabilities

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Mission
Develop
Physical
Fitness
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Mission
Demonstrate
Courage
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Mission
Experience
Joy
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Mission
Share gifts, skills
And friendship
With their families
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Mission Statement Voting
Courage
Joy
Competition
Children/Adults
Physical fitness
Olympic-type
Year-round
intellectual disabilities
Sports Training
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The Mission of Special Olympics

• 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.

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What makes Special Olympics Unique?

• No charge to athletes
• Awards for all
• Advancement to higher levels of competition
• All ability levels
• Divisioning
• All abilities can participate in sports,
• can achieve, have value

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Unique Divisioning

• The Stork Stand!

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Unique Athlete Advancement

• Overview of athlete advancement criteria

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Special Olympics Facts

• For people with intellectual disabilities
• For athletes 8 years and older
• Worldwide Programs in over 150 countries
• Offers 26 official sports
• Year-round
• Sports training AND competition opportunities
• Team AND individual sports

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Roles Responsibilities

• Athletes
• Mentors
• A mentor is a person who provides support,
  counsel, friendship, reinforcement, and
  constructive example

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Show Your Color
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Discovering Leaders

• What does a leader do?
• Who are good leaders?
• Why are they good leaders?

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What is a

• Board of Directors
• What do they do?

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What is a

• Committee?
• What do they do?

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What is the role of

• Special Olympics staff?
• What do they do?

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Special Olympics Program

• How do the Board of Directors, committees and
  staff work together?

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Committee Work - 1

• Brainstorming
• You are each on the Area Committee of a new
  Program with 100 athletes in a wide geographical
  area. If you had all the money you needed, what
  would you do to give them the best Program
  possible?

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Committee Work - 2

• Brainstorming
• You are each on the Area Committee of a new
  Program with 100 athletes in a wide geographical
  area. If you had all the money you needed, what
  would you do to give them the best Program
  possible?
• What decisions did you make?

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Committee Work - 3

• There has been a huge shortfall in revenue, and
  the budget has been cut in half.
• Your committee must now decide how to cut half of
  their plans.

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Committee Work - 4

• Plans are submitted to the Board for review AND
  further cuts

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Committee Work

• Board / Committee Work
• The Board explains their decisions

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After the workshop, you can

• Serve on a committee
• Serve on the Board of Directors
• Participate in an Input Council
• Volunteer
• Think about what you want to do

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Evaluation

• What is one thing you learned
• from this workshop?
• What will you do when you go home?