Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation

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.

Academic achievement support: educational services are snider hockey's top priority. Homework help, individual tutoring, and the reading buddies literacy development initiative - in cooperation with first book philadelphia - are core components of the after school excellence program, which has proven to keep students on track for on-time graduation (the grade-to-grade promotion rate for our students was 99.5% for the 2023-2024 school year). (continued on schedule o.)secondary and post-secondary access: counselors and mentors monitor and track the progress of each student to ensure academic success. Recognizing that more than a high school diploma is required to maximize life and career options, partnerships with faith in the future provide over 100 students with scholarships to high-performing private high schools and colleges - enabling them to graduate debt-free and prepared to enter the workforce. The number of snider hockey scholarship recipients will continue to grow each year as new cohorts age into these programs.

Socioemotional support: snider hockey's community resource specialist team is responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and connecting snider hockey students to appropriate intervention, social and emotional services that are simply outside of snider hockey's expertise. The team navigates individual situations of struggle for our population, whether it is helping a student cope with an incarcerated family member, sudden homelessness, exposure of domestic or sexual abuse, and other areas of sensitivity. One-on-one mentorship support: all students who participate in snider hockey are connected to a mentor who checks in with them on an individual, consistent basis. It is imperative that snider hockey adult staff members build relationships with youth that are built on consistency and a mutual respect and trust for one another. The team understands the value of fostering caring relationships with students through positive reinforcement and dependable interactions. Snider hockey fosters an environment in which students feel comfortable sharing issues/challenges and real learning and personal growth can take place.snider hockey provided direct support to over 95 students/families facing challenges such as: food insecurity, housing insecurity, and child emotional support. Snider hockey's crisis management team connected families to resources to assist with problems exacerbated by the lasting impacts of covid-19.