Stoked for Success
This project's parent organization is Stoked Mentoring Inc.
It operates in United States
It uses Multiple sports
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about Stoked for Success
We use action sports to close the gap that exists in the lives in low-income youth. We have identified the opportunity gap as lack of tenured skills, not enough positive relationships, and low level of participation. It is the disparity in paths to successful futures between low-income youth and affluent students. We use the lifestyle and culture of sport to touch on all of these issues by using the afterschool program as a platform for youth to learn skills, and weekends to reinforce skills and build relationships with successful adults. These sports are reserved for affluent people.
They offer resiliency, self-reliance, and community that you don’t get from anywhere else and we believe it can increase human social capital for youth. Low-income students don’t know how to use soft skills to succeed academically so if you build up their human and social capital it can close out the opportunity gap