The Next Generation Needs Your Support to Make a Difference

Activities outside of school provide children a opportunity to expand their self-esteem, self-image, and self-efficacy to achieve in life. Mental health improves and children are taught amazing life lessons including grit through extra-curricular activities.

Our program initiatives are backed by the most current empirical evidence on child development. We seek partnerships with organizations that wish to align themselves accordingly. All organization managers and coaches that wish to participate in our program must meet program conditions below. Click HERE to see guidelines.

“Although disadvantaged youth are less likely to participate in extracurricular activities, they often experience greater benefits, depending on the risk status and activity type. Evidence clearly supports expanding access to extracurricular programs for disadvantaged youth.“

Heath et al. (2022)
University of Chicago | Rutgers University

Heath, R. D., Anderson, C., Turner, A. C., & Payne, C. M. (2022). Extracurricular activities and disadvantaged youth: A complicated—but promising—story. Urban Education, 57(8), 1415-1449.

“… adolescents who participated in extracurricular activities (e.g., sports, arts programs, community programs) were significantly less likely to engage in recreational screen-based activities (e.g., watching programs, browsing the internet, playing computer games) for 2 or more hours after school.“

Oberle, et al. (2020)
University of British Columbia

Oberle, E., Ji, X.R., Kerai, S., Guhn,M., Schonert-Reichl, K.A. and Gadermann, A.M. (2020). Screen time and extracurricular activities as risk and protective factors for mental health in adolescence: A population-level study. Preventive Medicine 141, 1-7.