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About Kings Special Olympics
All Special Olympics Chapters:
- Promote, sponsor and conduct sport training programs for athletes with a mental disability.
- Encourage, prepare for and facilitate the participation of athletes with a mental disability in sport activities that exist in their communities.
- Organize and encourage financial support of year-round sport training and competition through the involvement of corporations, foundations, appropriate government agencies/ministries, service clubs and individuals.
- Co-operate with local organizations in the training and development of instructors, teachers, coaches, officials and other personnel to conduct sport training and competitive programs for athletes with a mental disability.
- Support, encourage and promote the consideration and enactment of legislation pertaining to the provision and improvement of sport training and competitive opportunities for athletes with a mental disability.
- Encourage, sponsor and promote the publishing and dissemination of research literature pertaining to sport training and competition for athletes with a mental disability.
- Undertake, through all facets of media, to create and enhance public awareness of the benefit of sport for individuals with a mental disability.
- Ensure that all programs, promotions, events and other activities conducted under the name Special Olympics achieve a desired level of quality and excellence.
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Guiding Principles to Support the Mission Statement
- Special Olympics provide sport opportunities directly for athletes with a mental disability.
- The athlete is all-important in Special Olympics. It is critical that coaches, parents and caregivers encourage and provide athletes with a mental disability with every opportunity to reach their highest level of athletic achievement.
- Special Olympics is a sport program. Sport involves the matching of strength, endurance and physical skills in formalized settings with structured rules and determined outcomes.
- Training and preparation are essential to meaningful participation in sport, and are an indispensable element of any Special Olympics program.
- Every Special Olympics athlete deserves the right to a certified coach.
- Special Olympics supports and promotes a fair and safe environment for both athletes and coaches.
- Special Olympics also links these athletes with other sport organizations that provide additional sport training and competitive opportunities.
- The practice of divisioning athletes for competition, based on their abilities, is fundamental to the Special Olympics program. This practice ensures that all athletes experience equitable competition.
- Special Olympics uses the medium of sport to assist persons with a mental disability to become all that they can be -physically, mentally, socially, emotionally- and to become accepted, respected and productive members of society.
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