{"id":166635,"date":"2022-08-02T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/?p=166635"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:16:13","slug":"expansion-wide-back-to-best-buddies-2-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/georgia\/bblc-was-a-blast","title":{"rendered":"BBLC was a blast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;166636&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]This year Georgia held our local Best Buddies Leadership Conference on July 23rd, 2022 at Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s in Marietta. We had 32 student leaders and advisors from our elementary, middle, high school, and college chapters attend! During this day of leadership, participants learned how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recruit new students to join their chapter;<\/li>\n<li>Run events successfully both in person and virtually;<\/li>\n<li>Use social media to spread the mission of Best Buddies;<\/li>\n<li>Be a spokesperson for the IDD community;<\/li>\n<li>And much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This conference experience offered opportunities to learn from professional presenters, participate in small group discussions, engage with Best Buddies staff, and spend time with other leaders from their state. Not only did attendees spend the day advancing their role in the disability rights movement, but they also got to enjoy time getting to know their peers better during game play at Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s. Everyone had so much fun, and the photos prove it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-166638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-2.webp\" alt=\"two female participants at event\" width=\"800\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-2.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-2-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nThis conference opportunity is so crucial for the leaders in our community because it encourages personal development in a way that is fun, informative, and enables them to connect with other leaders and lead in a way that impacts their entire school and community. The growth and success of Best Buddies would not be possible without the thousands of students and volunteers who partake in the organization on an annual basis and Leadership Conference plays a huge part in that success.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-166637 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-3.webp\" alt=\"Best Buddies Staff at event\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-3.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-3-1024x536.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.bestbuddies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bbga-2022-bblc-3-150x79.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student leaders enjoyed a fun and engaging Leadership Conference in Georgia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":166636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"ga-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBLC was a blast! 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