Manchester Police Athletic League Inc

Athletics- during fy2024, mpal offered youth opportunities to train in aikido, baton twirling, boxing, jiu jitsu, skateboarding and wrestling. Involving youth in athletics builds self-confidence and encourages healthy-living habits while instilling the values of respect, responsibility and community. Over 650 youth ages 5-18 participated in mpal athletic programs in fy2024. With the exception of wrestling, which has an academic year season, all athletic programs ran weekly all twelve months of the fiscal year.

Life skills programming-mpal provides a wide variety of educational enrichment programming for youth throughout the year with the aim of developing essential life-skills and preparing youth for the future. The "ambassadors" program, cooking class, girls empowerment & movement, "futures" early intervention program and all school vacation enrichment classes provide practical life skills while encouraging youth to plan for the future. Yourth are given the opportunity to experience new things while keeping a focus on respect, responsibility and community so they can be inspired to become contributing members of society. In fy2024, nearly 300 youth participated in mpal life-skills programs.programming was provided 49 weeks out of the fiscal year.