Autism United of Wisconsin invites you to help bring a unique program to schools in your community.
The Change Champions program:
Helps students gain a better understanding of Autism.
Provides materials and resources to participating schools to help raise awareness.
Gives students agency to personally make a difference in their own communities, and support the programming and events offered to families every year from Autism United of Wisconsin.
How does Change Champions work?
We need amazing schools, parents and community supporters like YOU to become coordinators and sign up to help facilitate the program.
Schools decide which week they would like to have an awareness campaign and coin/donation drive.
We will provide all the materials and support you need to make this an amazing Autism education experience for all!
Participating schools receive a printed, 2026 Resource Directory, and a pizza party for identified classroom at the end of the campaign. *
Step One:
Schools, parents and community partners work together to determine which week they would like to have an awareness campaign and coin/donation drive.
Step Two:
Reach out to Autism United of Wisconsin to request your kit and receive additional support and information.
Step Three:
We will deliver kits for your campaign beginning three weeks before your campaign. In the meantime, schools should have a meeting/assembly with teachers, parents, administrators and students to get everyone excited!
Step Four:
Use the cool stuff in your kit to generate program excitement including:
- Take home flyer for every student
- Teacher letter/poster for every student
- Bulletin board ideas
- Downloadable link to video that can be shared at school assemblies, in classrooms with smartboards and sent home to families in electronic communications/weekly folder announcements
- Autism fact sheet (share in daily announcements)
Step Five:
Have a great Autism Awareness Week Change Champions Event!
To generate more excitement…have a mid-week Classroom Count to see which classroom is in the lead for the pizza party!
Step Six:
After the campaign is over, contact the coordinator to collect funds. We will provide a report including the winning* classroom and the total amount of funds collected by your school within a week of funds being submitted.
*Pizza party for schools donating $500 or more during the campaign. Pizza party includes pizza, drinks and snack.
Need extra materials? Print from the PDF files below:
Become Change Champions for Autism today!
Questions? Contact us!
DeAnna@autism-united.org / 414.988.1262
