Best Buddies of Western Massachusetts creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships in schools between students with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities. In many high schools and middle schools, students with IDD are still segregated from their non-disabled peers. Without programs like Best Buddies that foster friendships and inclusion, students with intellectual disabilities will continue to be segregated. Isa Deloge, Area Director of Central and Western MA Best Buddies and Ani Petithory, advisory board member of Best Buddies of Western Massachusetts who has Williams Syndrome explains how Best Buddies changed her life.
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