Friendship is the antidote to loneliness! Let Best Buddies help your family! Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical, and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In this discussion, you will learn how Best Buddies empowers the special abilities of people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy, and communication skills, and feel valued by society.