Healthy Athletes: Year End Review

Special Olympics Maryland’s Healthy Athletes Program has been very busy during the 2022–2023 year! 4 extensive health screening opportunities were hosted across the state for 497 individuals with a mental or physical disability without access to proper health care, and Clinical Directors have done an incredible job working with our athletes and their families. See more here for a full year in review!

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Healthy Young Athletes Pediatric Screening

• Date: July 25th 2022
• Location = CentroNia Tacoma Park MD
• 26 Young Athletes went through this Pediatric Screening
• 1 of 5 US State Programs to pilot this screening.
• KKI was the major contributing partner for this event!
  • All Clinical Directors and volunteers were recruited from various departments across KKI.

USA Games

• Dates: June 4th – 12th 2022
• Location = Orlando Florida
• 125 athletes went through the HA Screenings
• Disciplines Offered:
  • Strong Minds = 83 Screenings
  • FUNFitness = 61 Screenings
  • Health Promotion= 76 Screenings
  • Healthy Hearing = 100 Screenings
  • Opening Eyes = 98 Screenings
  • Special Smiles = 97 Screenings
  • Fit Feet = 93 Screenings

SOMD Summer Games

• Date = June 18th, 2022
• Location = Towson University
• 101 athletes came through HA
• Disciplines Offered:
  • FUNFitness = 67 Screenings
  • Health Promotion= 52 Screenings
  • Healthy Hearing = 74 Screenings
  • Special Smiles = 66 Screenings

PGCPS MedFest

• Dates: January 11th & 12th 2023
• Location = UMD Xfinity Center
• 245 students received their updated sports physicals.
• Partners for this event:
  • UMD Athletics
  • KKI
  • Johns Hopkins
  • PGCPS APE Staff

Some other small wins for Healthy Athletes!

• Now have Clinical Directors for every HA Discipline
• Created new partnerships with:
  • KKI
  • UMD School of Social Work
  • UMD School of Epidemiology
  • JHH Wilmer Eye Institute
  • Foot and Ankle Specialists of the Mid-Atlantic
  • Starkey Hearing Aids
• Was able to offer SOMD FIRST EVER MedFest event in January 2023
• Had 3 Inclusive Health & Medical Advocacy Trainings to train students and health care professionals outside of a Healthy Athlete Screening Event.