The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport

Every coach wants what’s best for their athletes. But in a system that emphasizes overall performance and wins, many can feel stuck using outdated methods that don’t match what we now know about how young brains actually work.

Our free Healing-Centered Sport 101 training gives coaches practical tools grounded in neuroscience and how young brains actually develop. Because when athletes feel safe, seen, and supported, they perform better and thrive beyond sport!

Join us May 27. Link in bio.

Last week, we joined the Minnesota Twins Nike RBI coaches for a healing-centered coaches training made possible by the .

Together, we explored practical tools coaches can use to build healthy baseball and softball environments. Because when coaches have the right support, sport becomes more than competition. It becomes a place where young people can grow and heal.

Nothing heals like sport. But only when it’s done right.

This week, we kicked off Mental Health Awareness Month the only way we know how - by bringing together some of the most incredible humans working at the intersection of sport, mental health, and community to make that case out loud.

This is how healing-centered sport moves forward. More to come.

Grateful for this team!

A weekend in LA at the Dodgers Training Academy doing what we care most about. Learning together. Practicing together. Getting better together.

This is how healing-centered sport actually happens!

We’re excited for this evening in NYC, bringing together leaders across sport, mental health, youth development, and philanthropy.

These NHLS Speaker Series events are all about scaling sport for mental health, and at the center of the conversation is what it really takes to shift sport from environments that can harm to ones that actively heal.

What an INCREDIBLE group coming together for this one!

A reminder from today.

Nothing heals like sport!

When coaches are trained in youth development, something shifts—for them, and for the kids they work with. That’s not just our experience, it’s what the data shows.

Winning Beyond the Game, the Challenge Implementation Study conducted by Institutes for Research surveyed more than 13,800 coaches across four years. Among the findings:

    •    88% said training made them a better coach
    •    66% observed athletes experiencing more joy in their sport
    •    72% believed athletes were more likely to keep playing.

As a proud Partner of the Million Coaches Challenge, we know these numbers represent real coaches and real kids. We hope you’ll take a look at what the research found—and help us spread the word.

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We always leave feeling HYPED after trainings with the incredible, passionate, and dynamic Community Ambassadors.

These past few days were no different. Shout out to the NCAs who bring it every time as healing-centered humans. The kids they show up for are lucky.