Sports With Purpose
Youth to Society Sports introduces a new program to enhance kids’ mental skills, regardless of athletic ability. Our program uses the environment of sports and mindfulness to build confidence, resilience, sportsmanship, and other essential life skills that benefit children both on and off the field. By focusing on the mental aspect of sports, players learn the key social and emotional life skills that will help them improve beyond the game.
We are proud to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a National Youth Sports Strategy Champion to show our commitment to improving the youth sports landscape and mental health crisis.
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"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sports With Purpose
Youth to Society Sports introduces a new program to enhance kids’ mental skills, regardless of athletic ability. Our program uses the environment of sports and mindfulness to build confidence, resilience, sportsmanship, and other essential life skills that benefit children both on and off the field. By focusing on the mental aspect of sports, players learn the key social and emotional life skills that will help them improve beyond the game.
Youth To Society (Y2S) Sports is proud to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a National Youth Sports Strategy Champion to show our commitment to improving the youth sports landscape and mental health crisis.
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Our Program
Each season combines sports, life skill development, and a hands-on community service project. Like most youth programs, we hold weekly practices—but what we do during that time is what sets us apart.
Every practice starts with a warm-up, followed by fun, sport-based games that focus on teamwork, sportsmanship, and resilience. We end each session with a short reflection to help kids connect what they learned on the field to everyday life.
Sports
Weekly practices provide a pressure-free environment for kids to play sports for fun. By eliminating the stress of competition and performance, our practices offer a much-needed outlet for kids to be kids.
Life Skills
Our program uses a developed curriculum that emphasizes the mental aspect of sports by building character, emotional intelligence, sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership, and other essential life skills that translate beyond the field.
Community Service
To keep our program pressure-free, we decided to eliminate weekend games. Instead, teams work together on a community service project, which provides an opportunity to practice teamwork while making a positive impact.
Warm Up: Deep Breaths
Each practice begins with teaching kids to take intentional deep breaths—in through the nose, out through the mouth. We incorporate this technique into our warm-ups to provide an effective tool for managing stress and refocusing their minds.
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is something we build into every practice. From the start, players are encouraged to support each other, communicate respectfully, and celebrate effort over outcome. Through games and challenges, kids learn how to win with humility and lose with grace.
Emotional Intelligence
We integrate emotional intelligence skills into each practice to help kids develop self-awareness, self-management, and resilience. Through sports activities and guided reflections, players learn how to manage frustration, communicate effectively, and understand how emotions impact their performance.
Stress Free Outlet
Each practice allows kids to play for fun without adult pressures or expectations. This provides a much-needed outlet free from performance stress and an opportunity for kids to be kids.
Gratitude
Teaching kids gratitude encourages them to slow down, reflect, and appreciate the good in everyday moments. We end each practice with gratitude as a way to help kids build positive daily habits.
Teamwork
Instead of practicing as a team to win games, our practices build teamwork in a different way. Each week, teams work together on a service project that challenges them to communicate, problem-solve, and collaborate toward something meaningful. At the end of each season, their work comes together to make a positive impact in the community.
Training For The Future
Good character doesn’t develop automatically; it develops through character education, external influences, and practice. Just as soccer teaches the game’s skills, Youth To Society Sports teaches the inner skills needed to improve in sports and everyday life.
Training For The Future
Good character doesn’t develop automatically; it develops through character education, external influences, and practice. Just as soccer teaches the game’s skills, Youth To Society Sports teaches the inner skills needed to improve in sports and everyday life.
Character
Emotional Intelligence
Resilience
Conflict Resolution
Leadership
Community Over Competition
Instead of measuring success through winning games and scoring points, teams work together toward a shared purpose, measuring success through the impact they make. By alleviating individual pressure to perform for personal gain, players learn the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration, while building a sense of belonging and responsibility within the community.
Social Skills Through Accountability
Research shows adolescents are more likely to turn to their peers, rather than a professional or adult during stressful moments. Learning how to ask for and provide support is a teachable skill. Pairing players up into accountability buddies is a way to create teachable moments for players to learn and practice being supportive teammates and friends on and off the field.
Fun & Pressure-Free
With the rise in sports specialization, most kids drop out by age 13. Providing a youth league that uses sports in a fun and non-competitive environment is a way to keep kids active within the community and invested in their mental well-being. We create a fun, pressure-free environment to build emotional skills, social skills, sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership, and essential life skills to improve in sports and everyday life.
Community Over Competition
Instead of measuring success through winning games and scoring points, teams work together toward a shared purpose, measuring success through the impact they make. By alleviating individual pressure to perform for personal gain, players learn the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration, while building a sense of belonging and responsibility within the community.
Social Skills Through Accountability
Research shows adolescents are more likely to turn to their peers, rather than a professional or adult during stressful moments. Learning how to ask for and provide support is a teachable skill. Pairing players up into accountability buddies is a way to create teachable moments for players to learn and practice being supportive teammates and friends on and off the field.
Coaches. Role Models. Mentors.
There is an increasing understanding of the positive influence that peer role models and mentors can have on youth development, which is why our coaches are local high school seniors. Having someone relatable and closer in age makes their advice more trustworthy, making kids more receptive.
Before each season, coaches undergo training in the curriculum to effectively serve as both coaches and mentors for their team of players.
As Denzel Washington said, “Show me a successful individual, and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I’m sure someone was cheering you on or showing you the way-a mentor.”
Selection Process
We work with local high schools athletic department to find senior athletes who have the qualities to be role models and mentors for the kids in our program.
Training
Before each season, we train the coaches on the curriculum, mission, vision, and core values of Y2S Sports.
Weekly Practices
Coaches follow the curriculum during weekly practices, which includes helping their teams organize and plan for the league-wide community service project.
Role Models and Mentors
Our coaches bring similar energy and relatability to our players, which provides a unique opportunity for coaches to be role models and mentors for each player on their team
Coaches. Role Models. Mentors.
There is an increasing understanding of the positive influence that peer role models and mentors can have on youth development, which is why our coaches are local high school seniors. Having someone relatable and closer in age makes their advice more trustworthy, making kids more receptive.
Before each season, coaches undergo training in the curriculum to effectively serve as both coaches and mentors for their team of players.
As Denzel Washington said, “Show me a successful individual, and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I’m sure someone was cheering you on or showing you the way-a mentor.”
Interested In Coaching?
Selection Process
We work with local high schools athletic department to find senior athletes who have the qualities to be role models and mentors for the kids in our program.
Training
Before each season, we train the coaches on the curriculum, mission, vision, and core values of Y2S Sports.
Weekly Practices
Coaches follow the curriculum during weekly practices, which includes helping their teams organize and plan for the league-wide community service project.
Role Models and Mentors
Our coaches bring similar energy and relatability to our players, which provides a unique opportunity for coaches to be role models and mentors for each player on their team
Invest in the next generation
Our Foundation
Mission
To equip the next generation with essential life skills to navigate today’s challenges and create a better world for future generations.
Vision
To be in every community nationwide and change the world within one generation.
Core Values
AUTHENTICITY: Remaining true to our values regardless of external pressures and expectations.
LOVE: To do everything from a place of love
COMMITMENT: Staying committed to our mission and vision regardless of the circumstances.
CREATIVITY: Staying innovative, flexible, and always thinking outside the box to stay aligned with the youth culture and create a fun environment for everyone involved.
Promise
We promise to create a fun, safe, and non-judgmental environment to build vital life skills while working in collaboration with parents and all key stakeholders
Our Foundation
Mission
To equip the next generation with essential life skills to navigate today’s challenges and create a better world for future generations.
Vision
To be in every community nationwide and change the world within one generation.
Core Values
AUTHENTICITY: Remaining true to our values regardless of external pressures and expectations.
LOVE: To do everything from a place of love
COMMITMENT: Staying committed to our mission and vision regardless of the circumstances.
CREATIVITY: Staying innovative, flexible, and always thinking outside the box to stay aligned with the youth culture and create a fun environment for everyone involved.
Promise
We promise to create a fun, safe, and non-judgmental environment to build vital life skills while working in collaboration with parents and all key stakeholders