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We 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.
We believe one simple thing.
Nothing heals like sport.
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At the Center For Healing and Justice Through Sport, 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 — and there’s research to prove it.
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Who We Are
The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport (CHJS) is a national nonprofit organization working to ensure that more young people have access to sport experiences that are youth-centered, healing-centered, inclusive, and work to address issues of systemic injustice.
Our mission is to make sport healing for all youth, everywhere, through training, consulting, and movement building.
We believe that healing is a right for all. And through the wide appeal and accessibility of sport, we’ve found it is the ideal environment for healing-centered and justice-oriented 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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TRAINING
We offer practical, innovative, and research-based learning experiences for coaches, organizations, government agencies, and businesses. Our content expertise ranges from theory to practice, but typically falls into three main content areas: 1) Healing-Centered Sport, 2) Social-Emotional Learning through Sport, and 3) Girls in Sport. All training or speaking engagements are focused on how coaches, programs, or the sports culture as a whole can make a concerted effort to focus on healing, not harming.
CONSULTING
We provide top-to-bottom consulting services for programs, organizations, government agencies, and businesses interested in deepening or measuring their impact. We leverage decades of experience pushing the bounds of what sport can do to help organizations reach their goals. Our consulting services include evaluation support, program and curriculum design, and organizational strategy.
MOVEMENT BUILDING
We leverage our platform and expertise to push for systemic change. We work in collaboration with stakeholders nationally, inside and outside of sport, to raise awareness about the unique power of sport to provide healing from life’s various traumas. We support local organizing efforts, lobby and advocate for funding and policy, and build powerful narratives towards a vision where all youth sports are a place for healing, growing, and thriving, and where all kids have access.
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Creating Trauma-Informed Settings for High School Sports
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!
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READ: Nothing Heals Like Sport – A New Playbook for Coaches
Coaches, 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…
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The Parmenter Foundation funds the newest CHJS Program: E-Motion
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!
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READ: WSF’s The Healing Power of Sport Report
READ: 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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Register today: 2023 NM-Sport Certification
The Neurosequential Model© is a developmentally-informed, biologically-respectful approach to caregiving, education and therapeutics that draws on core concepts from many disciplines including the neurosciences, anthropology, developmental psychology and sociology. The Neurosequential Model of Sport© (NM-Sport) is an adaptation of this model to be used by…
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Trauma-Informed Sport Training Cohorts
The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport (CHJS) will host free, trauma-informed sport trainings for coaches, youth program providers, teachers, and anyone that wants to learn how sport can uniquely contribute to the mental and emotional well-being of Chicago’s youth. Sport is drastically underutilized…
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Nothing Heals Like Sport
Who’s CHJS? Check this quick video. Check out this video made in partnership with Nike and Chicago Parks and Rec, highlighting our mission to create more healing-centered sport experiences for all.
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