Best BUDDIES Suppie NEW PROGRAM TO PWMS & PHS BEST BUDDIES "Best Buddies is an opportunity for students with special needs to be paired up with other students throughout the school. Best Buddies is about establishing relationships that promote friendships and positive peer interactions. Long story short it is a great time for all involved and I hope more people get involved, because they do a lot of fun activities. These group events have also helped with connections during the routine school day as well." -Tom Stolee, Special Education Teacher F visit us at www.perhamschools.org Best Buddies program builds one-to-one friendships between people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), offering social interactions while improving the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. Through their participation, people with IDD form meaningful connections with their peers, gain self-confidence and self-esteem, and share interests, experiences and activities that many other individuals enjoy. - Courtney Rooney Ciles "Being in Best Buddies means so much beyond words to me. Having the ability to form the bonds with the students with special needs that I have made through the program has been very rewarding. Watching the students interact with the student body more and more everyday reminds me why I am in this program. Seeing my Best Buddy every day is the highlight of my day. It has been a life changing experience for us both!" Cailyn Greisen, PHS Junior CHASS Best BUDDIES Suppie NEW PROGRAM TO PWMS & PHS BEST BUDDIES " Best Buddies is an opportunity for students with special needs to be paired up with other students throughout the school . Best Buddies is about establishing relationships that promote friendships and positive peer interactions . Long story short it is a great time for all involved and I hope more people get involved , because they do a lot of fun activities . These group events have also helped with connections during the routine school day as well . " -Tom Stolee , Special Education Teacher F visit us at www.perhamschools.org Best Buddies program builds one - to - one friendships between people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities ( IDD ) , offering social interactions while improving the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded . Through their participation , people with IDD form meaningful connections with their peers , gain self - confidence and self - esteem , and share interests , experiences and activities that many other individuals enjoy . - Courtney Rooney Ciles " Being in Best Buddies means so much beyond words to me . Having the ability to form the bonds with the students with special needs that I have made through the program has been very rewarding . Watching the students interact with the student body more and more everyday reminds me why I am in this program . Seeing my Best Buddy every day is the highlight of my day . It has been a life changing experience for us both ! " Cailyn Greisen , PHS Junior CHASS