A group of Best Buddies recently spent an evening bowling.
Best Buddies is a new club at OHS. It’s part of a national non-profit organization that creates one-to-one friendships. The OHS club matches a general education student with a student with an intellectual or developmental disability. Students meet as a group once a month for an activity such as bowling, basketball camp, or an ugly sweater party. They also make one contact each week in school. That could be meeting at lockers, sitting together at lunch, and saying "hello" in the hallways.
“We have about 45 kids involved and the number is growing,” said Laura Schwab, Best Buddies sponsor and an OHS special education teacher. “We have seen a tremendous impact on the confidence of my students and the incentive offered to see his/her buddy really helps my students have a good day.”
This project is funded by the Legacy Foundation's Bright Ideas grant and the OHS Safe and Supportive Schools grant.
