Best Buddies Family Support provides families with essential resources to navigate raising a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Some moments stay with you long after the lights and the applause. Sounds of Change, the Best Buddies Philippines benefit concert held at Hard Rock Café, is one of those moments, an evening filled with joy, courage, and community—an event that turned into a catalyst. For many families, including mine, it was a reminder that inclusion isn’t an abstract concept. It’s a living, breathing force that transforms children, reshapes families, and slowly changes society.

Homecoming history was made recently at a San Bernardino high school. Two members of the Best Buddies club — a campus group of special-needs students — were crowned as the Homecoming king and queen.