Our Focus

SYSTEMS CHANGE

At the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport, our foundation will always be those who make up our team, the individual coaches we train, and programs we work with doing direct service with youth.



It is with these groups in mind that we also participate in and lead projects that aim to address systems-level challenges in healing-centered sport. The goal of CHJS Systems Change is to disrupt traditional power structures in sport that keep kids from safely participating and keep coaches and programs from doing what they do best: creating healing-centered sports experiences.

CHJS Systems Change. The work is rooted in two assumptions, taken from our Agenda to Transform Sport:

1. Sport is uniquely situated to help kids heal and thrive. We must redesign the delivery of all youth sports, everywhere, to maximize sports’ inherent developmental and healing qualities.

2. A healing sports system and a more just society are interconnected. We must work inside and outside the sports system to change the conditions that prevent kids, families, and communities from accessing and participating in high-quality, healing sports.

READ THE FULL AGENDA HERE

 

CURRENT SYSTEMS CHANGE PROJECTS:

1. Coalitions for sport equaulity

Coalitions for Sport Equity is a group of city and region-based collectives representing sport, physical activity, and play-based organizations in communities nationwide. CHJS Serves as a backbone facilitator and fiscal sponsor. This group meets monthly.  Learn more at coalitionsforsportequity.org!
Current members:

 

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Coalitionsforsportequity.org

2. Sports Based Youth Development Funder’s Collaborative

The SBYD Funder’s Collab is a group of funders who are invested in working together to make a significant impact in shifting the youth sports space towards safe, healing-centered practices.

As youth sports begin to recover from the damages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the moment to unite stakeholders that share a belief that all kids deserve access to healing-centered sports programs that help them develop as athletes and as humans. We need to work collectively to overhaul harmful youth sport systems and build new systems so that all sports are healing, not harmful.

Members are a combination of local foundations, national brands, and professional sports teams.

This group meets every six weeks.

Other Focus Topics:

INNOVATIVE HUB

Training

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