Event Goals
- Raise awareness about individuals with special needs of all kinds.
-  Help change attitudes, to celebrate, and show that all individuals are amazing, special, unique, and talented; despite their physical, emotional, and mental obstacles.
- Remind and help connect everyone to their true nature and beautiful inner world.
- Recognize and honor the talents, promote equality, and empower the people with special needs.
- Help individuals with special needs to build self-confidence and embrace overcoming any emotional, physical, and mental barriers, obstacles while flipping all life experiences into a discovery process of talents and extra ordinary abilities.
- Return smiles, happiness, and joy into every child’s, youth’s, and adult’s life.
- Fundraise for the “Shine Up” Therapy Based Educational Program for Special Child
 

At the Hidden Talents Shine Up 2017 Social Event, there will be music, dance, prizes, refreshments, magic show, balloon drop, and live performances by kids, teens, and adults with special needs. Every individual with special needs who is performing and attending the event would get recognized and receive an appreciation gift. Kids, teens, and adults with special needs are encouraged to perform. The performances are singing, dancing, an inspirational speech, display of paintings, drawings, and sculptures, drama, comedy, poetry, playing of musical instruments, and display of science experiments and innovation.
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Honor, support, assure, bring hope, to include, and to respect those with ‘special needs” ! ​​
Everybody can give! Just a moment of holding or believing in someone can bring a thread of hope, confidence, joy, trust, and satisfaction, into the world of those with “special needs” !
Your Sunshine Inc. believes in, and is inspired by those with “special needs”. We can go behind the “special needs” through our own journey receiving, giving, and living it. We teach in our hearts to believe in each other, so that we can give. 
  
7 Important Reasons to Support the Event
  1.  Engaging kids, teens, and adults with special needs to make meaningful friendships.
  2. Create opportunities for kids, teens, and adults with special needs to network, interact, and develop social skills.
  3. Create a positive, memorable, and stimulating experience celebrating and learning more about people with “special needs”
  4. Encouraging kids, teens, and adults with special needs feel comfortable to be part of the community and believe in themselves
  5. Creating environment where kids, teens, and adults with special needs feel worthy, loved, cared, inspired, supported, and empowered.
  6. Helping kids, teens, and adults to express their talents, gifts, and abilities.
  7. Building a place to share common interests and values.