Exceptional Education Program

Hands of Hope is a non-profit organization based in Walton County, Georgia. Our mission is to work collaboratively with other agencies to help enhance the lives of individuals with disabilities and exceptional needs. Walton County Georgia has only a few public schools that educate exceptional needs students from ages 3 to 21. There are currently 1,374 students in the Walton County School District receiving special education services. To meet their needs, the district employs over 200 special education teachers, therapists, and paraprofessionals The county does an excellent job ensuring these students have the education and related therapy services they need. However, as school funding is often reduced, these students who need additional environments to promote stimulating learning and inclusion, are often not funded. Therefore, Hands of Hope Walton County has created the Exceptional Education Program. This program will be a fundraising program to ensure that all students in Walton County have everything they need to be successful in the classroom, and our exceptional needs students are no exception. We are reaching out to businesses and local families to donate therapeutic sensory items for our exceptional needs students such as fidgets, water beads, kinetic sand, concentration rockers, as well as classroom supplies.

Program Details

Hands of Hope Walton County will fundraise by contacting businesses to donate items and local families to purchase items from a Wish List with a fundraising goal of $1000. The fundraising will take place between August 21 through September 30, 2024. All of these items will be used to create an Exceptional Education Gift valued at $250 for a selected Walton County public elementary school with exceptional needs students. A total of four gifts will be awarded for the 2024 – 2025 school year. Gifts will be awarded in October 2024, December 2024, February 2025, and April 2025. Elementary schools will be selected based on public voting on the Hands of Hope Walton Facebook Page. The voting will take place in the months of November 2024, January 2025, and March 2025. The school with the most votes will receive the Exceptional Education Gift. Schools will only be allowed to win once in a school year.

Contact Information

If you or a business would like to donate to the 2025 Exceptional Education Program, please email us below.