At the Center For Healing and Justice Through Sport (CHJS), we believe that underneath the fun and camaraderie, sport can be used as a vehicle to provide creative and accessible solutions to some of society's biggest issues.
CHJS is a national nonprofit organization working to ensure that more young people and athletes have access to sport experiences that are healing-centered, inclusive, and work to address issues of systemic injustice.
Our mission is to make sport healing for all youth and athletes everywhere. We support athletes and teams through training, consulting, and movement building, as well as through innovative programs.
We believe that healing is a right for all. And through the wide appeal and accessibility of sport, we’ve found that sport is the ideal environment for justice-oriented and healing-centered philosophies. This work changes the lives of not only participating athletes, but their families, their communities, and the world at large.
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Our work is backed by neuroscience research showing that sport—the activity that has brought humans entertainment and joy for thousands of years— has both a physiological and psychological healing effect. CHJS brings trauma-informed coaching to youth through our accessible programs and services. By bringing together the knowledge and influence of sports experts, psychologists, scientists, and strategists, CHJS equips coaches with simple, practical skills and knowledge about the brain which are proven to have a therapeutic impact on athletes, students, and participants.
Through our dynamic partnership with The Neurosequential Network and NM- Sport, known for their field leading model in education, our innovative programs and initiatives are integrating sport into the healthy therapeutic web of children youth and families to help individuals and programs who believe in a new vision for sport, one centered around healing and justice.
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Read our joint statement with co-organizers of the 2023 Equality Summit. Near the Women’s World Cup finale, CHJS-Australia and several organizations hosted the Equality Summit, an inspiring and celebratory event to promote equality in sport. Panels and workshops with some of the greatest minds and…
Read MoreCLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Each quarter, CHJS hosts a free training on the foundations of our content, healing-centered sport and brain-based coaching. This interactive training session is created for coaches and parents who are new to the healing-centered sport world. Attendees will walk away with…
Read MoreListen to the first five episodes of CWB. LISTEN AND SHARE. Coaching While Black is hosted by CHJS trainers and Lead Consultants Chris Reed and Anthony Andino. Chris and Anthony discuss what’s healing and harmful within sports—specific to their perspective as expert African American coaches….
Read MoreWe Coach® is becoming The Center For Healing & Justice Through Sport (CHJS)!
Our mission is to make sport healing for all youth, everywhere, through training, consulting, and movement building.
The need for coaches who can facilitate sport in a way that creates safety and
encourages necessary open dialogue about the challenges our communities face is urgent!
Learn more about this special opportunity for coaches, youth development professionals, and other related practitioners!
Read MoreCoaches, parents, and leagues – this playbook is for you. After more than three years of living through a global health emergency – which caused both an unimaginable amount of direct loss and laid bare the inequity of social structures that have systematically and intentionally…
Read MoreThe need for coaches who can facilitate sport in a way that creates safety and
encourages necessary open dialogue about the challenges our communities face is urgent!
Learn more about this special opportunity for coaches, youth development professionals, and other related practitioners!
Read MoreREAD: 2023 WSF Report The Healing Power of Sport: COVID-19 and Girls’ Participation, Health, and Achievement The Healing Power of Sport: COVID-19 and Girls’ Participation, Health, and Achievement is one of the first studies to examine ways in which sports participation among girls was impacted…
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