Social Emotional Learning: We use relationships, sport and play as tools to foster Social Emotional Learning and belonging. Research, parents, teachers, and community leaders all agree that cultivating social and emotional skills leads to positive outcomes for youth in school and life. Our program, grounded in the CASEL framework of Social Emotional Learning, uses strong relationships with coaches and the joy and camaraderie of sport and play to nurture the social and emotional skills to enrich life and access greater opportunity.

Mindfulness: Mindfulness is proven to have wide ranging benefits including improved academic performance, increased levels of self esteem, reduced stress and deeper social emotional learning skills. Mindfulness, sport and play are naturally connected (for example: mindful breathing precedes each foul shot) and sport and play create the perfect portal for students who may otherwise not engage in mindfulness. We incorporate mindful breathing into all of our programming so youth can build their mindfulness tool kits for life!

Wellness: Our goal is not to create the next generation of professional athletes but to use relationships, sport and play to nurture the next generation of thriving and healthy human beings. Not only do we teach youth sports and games, we work to help youth gain a greater understanding of establishing life-long healthy playful habits that will support both body and mind. We believe equity and community wellness are essential elements of “wellness” and we emphasize connections between sport, play, community, belonging and social justice whenever possible in our programming.