Events News The Ultimate Thunderdome 2023 June 3, 2023 Chicago Hope Academy Track & Field 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. Learn More
News 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!
Resources 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…
News 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!
Resources 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…
News 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…
News 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…
Video 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.
News The Power of Sport: Conversations on Trauma, Healing, and Resilience 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!
News Resources Coaching Girls Guide Coaching Girls Guide This Guide Is Designed To Serve Program Leaders And Coaches Working To Recruit And Retain Girls (And Girl-Identifying Young People, Especially Those Most Likely To Be Excluded From Sport). Download it today! Descargar en Español