In celebration of Worldwide Youth Day, Particular Olympics is proud to announce the newly chosen 2025 – 2027 International Youth Management Council (GYLC)—a various and dynamic group of 16 youth leaders, each with and with out mental disabilities. These leaders symbolize 8 Particular Olympics Applications throughout all seven world areas, together with Particular Olympics Chile, the host Program for the 2027 World Video games.
Worldwide Youth Day, noticed yearly on August 12, acknowledges the essential position that younger individuals play in constructing extra inclusive, sustainable, and equitable societies. This yr, Particular Olympics continues its dedication to empowering youth as change brokers by welcoming a brand new cohort of worldwide leaders devoted to advancing inclusion by means of sport, training, and advocacy.
The International Youth Management Council is the very best stage of youth management inside the Particular Olympics motion. Council members serve a two-year time period, throughout which they information world youth programming, assist the event of native and regional initiatives, and play an integral position in shaping the 2027 International Youth Management Summit, which can happen alongside the Particular Olympics World Video games in Santiago, Chile.
“Our new Council members symbolize the perfect of what youth management can obtain. Their concepts, power, and lived expertise will assist form a extra inclusive world—from the sphere of play to school rooms and communities and in the end to the worldwide stage. We couldn’t be extra excited to welcome this new cohort to the GYLC.”
Jackie Jodl, Chief Schooling Officer at Particular Olympics Worldwide
The 2025 – 2027 Council consists of:
- 16 youth leaders (8 Unified pairs of youth with and with out mental disabilities)
- Illustration from 8 Particular Olympics Applications and all 7 world areas
- Applications embrace: Chile, Macau, Morocco, Paraguay, Pilipinas, Slovakia, South Africa, and the USA of America
To go to the International Youth Management Council to study extra and meet the brand new members.
