Community Engagement

Best Buddies’ Friendship Programs offer opportunities for students with and without IDD to come together and build meaningful connections while creating a more inclusive school community. 

Within a Best Buddies chapter, students are invited to participate in monthly group activities and can choose to be matched in one-to-one friendships between students with and without disabilities.

 Buddy pairs spend time together and communicate – over phone/text, social media, orin school – at least once a week and are encouraged to spend time together twice per month – during school, at a chapterevent, or in the community. Though community-based activities are not required, we encourage buddy pairs to connectoutside of school in order to form deeper, more meaningful connections.