You're With Us

Benefits of inclusion flow in both directions. People with disabilities have the potential to influence those around them -- a special ability to open people up to compassion, empathy, and leadership. Further, You’re With Us! seeks to change the perceptions of disabled young people who believe they are separate and excluded by helping them become part of the communities centered on the activities that they enjoy. In turn, their new peers in these communities, who may have thought of children with disabilities as different, now find them to be friends, teammates, and even family.

All people are healthiest when they feel safe, supported, and connected to others around them. The inclusion of people with disabilities in these communities provides the essential social skills and leadership tools to allow them to lead a full life.                       

Learn more about You’re with Us! at www.yourewithus.org. By participating in the Flutie 5k as a part of the YWU team you will aid in providing the resources needed to recruit and train college groups to be welcoming and supportive peers for young adults with disabilities. Social connections are a basic human need that we ALL deserve. Those affected by disabilities are not isolated by choice but because of the lack of opportunity to be welcomed by their peers.