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Nothing Heals Like Sport Speaker Series

Nothing Heals Like Sport Speaker Series The Nothing Heals Like Sport Speaker Series brings together experts from mental health, education, philanthropy, and sport to explore how intentional sport environments serve as a powerful pathway for youth mental health. Megan Bartlett, CHJS Founder, hosts each conversation…

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Become a Most Valuable Coach

Too many young people are leaving sport. And it’s not because of the game. It’s because of the experience. Research is clear: the quality of a young person’s relationship with their coach is one of the strongest predictors of whether they stay in sport or…

Next Play Mentoring Initiative

Empowering Mentors. Strengthening Communities. The Next Play Mentoring initiative, powered by the NFL, equips coaches with the skills, relationships, and support they need to lead beyond the field. Community coaches are more than team leaders — they are mentors, role models, and catalysts for change…

Free Healing-Centered 101 Coach Training

Join us for free, virtual trainings on healing-centered coaching. Every coach wants what’s best for their athletes. But in a system that emphasizes overall performance and wins, many coaches feel stuck using outdated methods that don’t match what we now know about how young brains…

CHJS Expands to Canada!

November 2025 – Canada’s kids are struggling. Nearly 1.2 million experience mental health challenges, fewer than 40% get enough daily physical activity, and one-third can’t access organized sport because of cost. At the same time, competitive programs tend to favor kids with prior experience or…

The Long Game

A Decade of Partnership in Action [WATCH “THE LONG GAME”] When we’re trying to make change across the city, it takes time. Change is only going to happen if you make the real investment. Today, we’re releasing “The Long Game” – what sustained partnership with…

Sport Equity Coalitions Launch White Paper Series for Youth Sport

Collaborative Partnership Development As part of CHJS’s Collective Action strategy, we support the Coalitions for Sport Equity (CSEq) and the Sports Based Youth Development Funder Collaborative – two collective action efforts that work to address the systemic barriers keeping kids out of sport. Over the…

A Decade of Sustained Partnerships with Parks and Recreation Systems

At CHJS, we’ve always believed that Nothing Heals Like Sport – and we’ve spent the past ten years proving it works at scale. Our sustained partnerships with Parks and Recreation systems across the country show what happens when you move beyond one-off trainings to build…

CHJS joins California’s 25×25 Coaches Challenge

(Updated Tuesday, November 18, 2025) California (yes, the whole state), October 2024– California’s changing the game in youth sports, y’all. The star player? Coaches. Today the California Governor’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Mental Well-Being joined forces with Susan Crown Exchange’s Million Coaches Challenge…

Brain-Based Coaching x Yoga

Peace in Practice (PIP) x CHJS Celebrate Mental Health Partnership Traditional wellness spaces exclude many communities. Peace in Practice (PIP) is changing that equation in Minnesota, creating a pipeline of BIPOC yoga instructors through their fully-scholarshipped 200-hour certification program. For the third time, we’ve had…

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