COACHES Project

Coach Kelli: Facilitating Healing and Wellness Through Sports

Coach Kelli: Facilitating Healing and Wellness Through Sports

Coach Kelli is all about healing—for the kids they mentor, their community, and themself. Both on and off the basketball court, Kelli integrates their interests in wellness, relationship-building, and social justice in order to build on sports’ potential as a healing modality

Up2Us Sports Receives YES! Grant as Part of National Youth Sports Strategy

Up2Us Sports Receives YES! Grant as Part of National Youth Sports Strategy

In September 2019, it was announced that Up2Us Sports was one of 16 national organizations awarded funding as part of the Youth Engagement in Sports: Collaboration to Improve Adolescent Physical Activity and Nutrition (YES) Initiative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and managed by Office of Minority Health (OMH).