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Awareness,
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2011
Best Buddies Ambassadors becomes Best Buddies’ seventh formal program.
2012
Best Buddies Promoters officially launches as the eighth program for the 2012-2013 school year. It becomes the first Best Buddies program open to elementary schools.
2013
Best Buddies celebrates its 25th anniversary.
2014
Best Buddies launches the I’m In To Hire campaign to promote the business benefits of hiring people with IDD.
2014
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act requires states to include persons with disabilities in all workforce programs, including expanding competitive, integrated employment opportunities for transition-age students with disabilities.
2014
The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE Act) allows persons with disabilities to create tax-free savings to cover qualified expenses such as education, housing, and transportation. The bill would supplement, but not supplant, benefits provided through private insurances, the Medicaid program, the supplemental security income program, the beneficiary’s employment, and other sources.
2015
In October 2015 A&E Network partnered with Best Buddies and premiered a new docu-series, Born This Way, which chronicles the lives of seven young-adults with Down syndrome, several of whom are Best Buddies participants.