Lacrosse and Education in Harlem, NY

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Harlem Lacrosse was officially formed in 2011 to create a holistic youth services organization around the idea that what students need to reach their full potential is to be immersed in an activity in which they take pride, led by a caring mentor, tutor and coach who can help them build confidence and skills on the field and in the classroom. We are focused on sustainable growth, which is primarily driven by the desire to create pathways to and through high school for all of our participants, and this objective has been successfully created in partnership with the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) in one of New York City’s neighborhoods. At Harlem Lacrosse (HL), our goal is to design programming that uses lacrosse to engage our students in a wide breadth of activities in order to cultivate self-esteem, growth mindset, perseverance, collaboration, academic skills and healthy life habits. This is accomplished through a combination of school-based academic support, behavioral intervention during the school day, mentoring, and out-of-school experiential opportunities. As such, the objectives of the HL-HCZ partnership align directly with Beyond Sport’s Global Goals of Good Health and Wellbei