Training for Life Campus

Healthy Athletes®

We offer a variety of health screenings at our campus. The Diamond Pet Foods Healthy Athletes® wing features four exam rooms: Special Smiles, Opening Eyes, Fit Feet/Health Promotions, Healthy Hearing with a Hearing Booth. This allows us to see new athletes and open the doors to those with disabilities in group homes and day program groups. We offer Health & Wellness education to athletes, schools, and day programs, and group homes. Special Olympics Health is made possible by the Golisano Foundation in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

There are opportunities from those in the community to partner with us to bring health screenings, nutrition, and education to the athletes. To grow, we need partners to help us sustain the program, by providing funding, resources and people.

Interested in how you can help us grow this program?

Fit 5

Fit 5 aims to improve athlete health through a routine of exercising five times per week, eating fruits and vegetables five times per day, and drinking five bottles of water per day. For more information on the program and how you can join us at the campus, email us!

Young Athletes is a sport-and-play program that teaches the basic fundamentals of moving, jumping, kicking, balance, and more, to children ages 2-7. It's an inclusive program that has kids both with and without intellectual disabilities. We offer these programs at the area level (ask your area if you have one near you), but we also offer them at our Training for Life Campus as well.

Here is a story about our partnership with Southwest Early Childhood Center and how they took advantage of the program and our campus.

Day programs are a place for adults with intellectual disabilities to participate in activities outside of a group home setting. They often go on field trips. Our Training for Life Campus can be a place where your Adult Day Programs can visit! We can lead sessions on exercise, nutrition, leadership and life skills, or just let the participants explore the campus and maybe even learn a new sport.

SOMO used to offer just one summer camp every year for 50-100 athletes. Now that we have a beautiful campus, we can offer camps all year-round! Camp activities range from arts & crafts, to exercise, to nutrition, to leadership and life skills, to learning new sports skills and more! If you're interested in attending a camp, let us know!

We do still offer our weeklong Gary Brimer Sports Camp in the summer as well.