Coach Across America

Program Contact: Thomas Padro
Phone: (857) 254-9065
Email: tpadro@up2ussports.org

Coach Across America (CAA), the signature program of Up2Us, is the first nationwide effort to mobilize highly trained coaches as Sports-Based Youth Development (SBYD) experts.

CAA hires and recruits young people with a passion for sports, and places them as Coaches in community and school-based sports programs in our nation’s most under-served communities. The host sites for these coaches are nonprofits and schools whose athletic activities are often the lifelines to success for their neighborhood youth.

Following extensive pre-service training, coaches will invest their talent and energy to promote health and nutrition, educational success, civic engagement, and positive personal and social development among youth, addressing some of the most pressing issues facing our youth: childhood obesity, academic failure and risky behavior.

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