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Challenge the Urban Century
Though every city has its own unique characteristics and issues, virtually all urban areas share some challenges in providing for people with intellectual disabilities, including:

1. Effectively identifying the numbers of persons with intellectual disabilities who live in a large population.
   
2. Navigating and interacting within a large urban bureaucracy,and responding to its political and policy shifts.
   
3. Providing quality services for a population with many types of diversity — ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, neighborhood, etc. — and establishing solid communication with all those diverse groups.
   
4. Dealing with a school system, and understanding the challenges it faces in providing for children with intellectual disabilities.
   
5. Formulating an effective transition from school-based to community-based programs, so that people with intellectual disabilities who leave the school system can continue to benefit from Special Olympics programming.
   
6. Securing facilities for athletic training and competitions in an environment where space is at a premium and costs are high.
   
7. Overcoming transportation and other logistical problems.

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