Buddy Club 2024-2025

Our goal is to develop friendships between students with disabilities and students without disabilities. We strive to decrease isolation, provide opportunities for socialization, and increase inclusion in schools. All while having fun!!

This unique club is centered on friendship! The Buddy Club provides opportunities for teens with disabilities to form friendships with teens without disabilities in their school. Buddy Club members are "matched" for the entire year and will commit to contacting each other on a regular basis during the school year. Our purpose is to include teens with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the general population of their schools. Buddy Club is one of the few clubs that can change a life, help the community, and make an impact on the world as a whole. We do all of this while still having loads of fun! Sign up with a friend to be a friend!

All Buddy Club meetings will be held in person on Campus during once-a-week Buddy Lunches.

Schools participating:

Leona Libby Middle School, Kamiakin High School, Richland High School, Southridge High School,

Chiawana High School, Kennewick High School, & Hanford High School

ATTENTION: PARENTS/GUARDIANS OF "BUDDIES", PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AS THOUGH YOU ARE YOUR CHILD. THIS APPLICATION IS GEARED TOWARD THE PEER BUDDIES. (STUDENTS WITHOUT DISABILITIES.)