ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & 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 is 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. Snider hockey students completed a over 3,000 hours of life skills programming during the 2023-24 season. This includes service-learning opportunities, leadership council activities, virtual life skills activities, outdoor life skills activities, and life skills lessons delivered to our travel hockey teams. A total of 31 snider hockey students were placed in meaningful, paid summer internship positions through partnerships with comcast and university of the sciences in 2023 and 2024. A further 24 snider hockey students were placed into the j. Wood platt caddie scholarship program. 22 additional snider hockey students participated in initiatives aimed at introducing concepts in finance and stem through partnerships with the wharton school of business, tech girlz, and y-tac.