Ed Snider Youth Hockey and Education

Life skills and leadership: Snider Hockey's life skills curriculum is age-specific and focuses on helping students acquire critical life attributes such as accountability, responsibility, self-confidence, and teamwork. The leadership council provides students with unique opportunities to build and demonstrate leadership skills while sharing student-led feedback during strategic decision-making. Play (purposeful learning for active Youth) of the month are themed lessons designed to practice emotion-management / coping skills. Curricula are mindfully designed for rising adolescence. Social-emotional learning is applied through the coaching boys into men (cbim) and the olweus bullying prevention curricula. (continued on schedule o. )trained staff delivers tangible lessons related to intimate partner violence prevention, including weekly cbim playbook lessons before/during/after Hockey practice, as well as a practical program to prevent and/or reduce bullying in elementary, middle, and junior high schools (students 6 to 15 years). Students are also trained in "soft and "hard" skills that enable good first impressions, the maintenance of positive relationships, and conflict resolution. Career development: career development programming enables students to learn marketable, job-embedded skills, while networking with partner organizations throughout secondary and post-secondary Education. As student-athletes progress through academic courses, Snider Hockey connects students with paid internship and career exploration at comcast corporation, philadelphia Youth network, allied universal, pspca, j. Wood platt trust, exelon, blb&b, techgirls, peco, wharton, university of the sciences, and other area universities. Snider Hockey has adopted "realizing gainful and rewarding employment" as a hallmark of our impact statement and have prioritized the importance of achieving related outcomes. Lessons are blended into Hockey practices; coaches lead intentional conversations tailored to each age group. Students acquire critical life attributes that aren't taught in a classroom. On average, 70 junior coaches annually complete over 100 hours of service-learning. Coaches are trained to deliver over 100 team activities per year designed to facilitate group discussions that lead to healthy and wise decision-making. Students gain access to unique learning opportunities and learn marketable, job-embedded skills, while networking with partner organizations. Dozens of internships are facilitated with comcast, comcast-spectacor, exelon, j. Wood platt, partnering universities, and more.

Socioemotional support: Snider Hockey's community resource specialist team is responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and connecting Snider Hockey students to appropriate intervention, social and emotional services that are simply outside of Snider Hockey's expertise. The team navigates individual situations of struggle for our population, whether it is helping a student cope with an incarcerated family member, sudden homelessness, exposure of domestic or sexual abuse, and other areas of sensitivity. (continued on schedule o. )one-on-one mentorship support: all students who participate in Snider Hockey are connected to a mentor who checks in with them on an individual, consistent basis. It is imperative that Snider Hockey adult staff members build relationships with Youth that are built on consistency and a mutual respect and trust for one another. The team understands the value of fostering caring relationships with students through positive reinforcement and dependable interactions. Snider Hockey fosters an environment in which students feel comfortable sharing issues/challenges and real learning and personal growth can take place.individual support is available for those navigating troublesome situations. A community resource specialist monitors, evaluates, and connects students to appropriate intervention services. Collaboration with 35 nonprofit organizations assure that Snider families have access to critical services. More than 180 families have received such support.

Hockey and physical fitness: Snider is an out-of-school time program that positively impacts the life trajectories of philadelphia Youth through daily age-based sessions that include: academic support; Hockey; fitness training; life skills lessons; postsecondary readiness; and career exploration. Snider deliverables support the changing needs of our students as they advance through their stages of life, targeting windows of opportunity where long-term impact will be achieved. (continued on schedule o. )Snider provides access to enriching activities. Such access is highly dependent upon family income - only 59% of school-aged children from low-income families are financially able to participate in sports, compared with 84% of children from wealthier families (those with household income of $85,000 or more). At zero cost to families, Snider provides out-of-school safe havens that foster academic success, physical fitness, citizenship, and valuable life skills for thousands of Youth. 1,900+ total students and 130+ alumni have been served through a combination of in-person programming that fosters academic success, personal development, and citizenship.

Academic achievement support: educational services are Snider Hockey's top priority. Homework help, individual tutoring, and the reading buddies literacy development initiative are core components of the after school excellence program. Secondary and post-secondary access: counselors and mentors monitor and track the progress of each student to ensure academic success. Recognizing that more than a high school diploma is required to maximize life and career options, partnerships with faith in the future and blocs provide students with scholarships to high-performing private high schools and colleges - enabling them to graduate debt-free and prepared to enter the workforce. The number of Snider Hockey scholarship recipients will continue to grow each year as new cohorts age into these programs.snider programs are proven to keep students on track for on-time graduation. The grade-to-grade matriculation rate for our secondary school students is 99.5%. Our students average 757 minutes of independent reading each school year. To date, over $8 million has been invested in scholarships for Snider students at partner high schools and colleges. 300+ individual students have received scholarships to attend high performing high schools and colleges, relieving them of carrying the burden of debt - a clear driving factor in emotional well-being and academic success.