AmeriCorps announced that Up2Us Sports would once again receive critical funding for our national service coach program. Since 2009, AmeriCorps funding has allowed us to train and support over 3,900 coaches to significantly impact the lives of nearly 100,000 young people.
Welcome to a momentous occasion as we celebrate 14 incredible years of Up2Us Sports! Since our inception, we have been committed to empowering young people through the power of sports, national service and mentorship.
We hope you will read our latest Annual Report and we thank you for your support in helping us provide underserved youth with a coach who cares about them. This report covers our 2021-2022 program and fiscal year.
The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Innovation Awards—an initiative that aims to identify and fund mental healthcare solutions for children and young adults across the United States—honors a 2022 winner, Up2Us Sports.
Today, January 12th, 2023 is our 13th Anniversary, and we are expecting to have more impact in the year ahead than ever before. We will serve more kids, recruit more coaches, support more VISTAs (front office-based service members) and help more sports-based youth development programs across the country.
The past year has been one of immense heartache and sadness. Through it all, however, a dedicated group of people have answered the call to serve: AmeriCorps Members. They all answered the call for different reasons, but the overall goal was to give back and put their neighbors first to help heal the country, despite all of the obstacles happening around them.
Our 2019-2020 cohort of AmeriCorps coaches has had an experience like no other group has had in our past decade of existence. The final several months of their service term has been interrupted due to the effects of COVID-19, the unexpected pandemic that has changed so much of the World as we know it.
Changing Your Coaching in 7 Words or Less teaches participants a collection of strategies built around phrases, each 7 words or less, that we can actually say to kids to help build meaningful relationships and provide powerful support in and out of the sports context. Available in English and Spanish.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has become a popular topic within youth development programming, and rightly so. At Up2Us Sports, our training is focused on building SEL skills on and off the playing field in an effort to approach youth development in a holistic manner. Read more about how to incorporate the SEL framework into your practice.
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