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Coach &
Community
Impacts
The right mentor makes all the difference.
We believe youth thrive when guided by coaches who see them, understand them, and stand beside them.
Training Coaches, Transforming Communities
At SWB, we believe quality coach education has the power to transform not only how coaches lead—but how young people grow, teams connect, and communities come together. Our coach trainings equip community and competitive coaches with tools to create safe, supportive environments where all youth feel they belong. With a focus on opportunity for all genders, racial representation, and violence prevention through sport, these trainings create ripple effects that start with the individual coach and extend far beyond the field.
The ripple effects of quality coach education:
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SWB trainings seek to provide coaches with a space to deeply reflect on their coaching practice, how they interact with youth, and how they can improve. With engaging on-field activities, coaches become more confident utilizing inclusive coaching practices, building safer sessions, constructing cohesive and comprehensive seasons, and leading with inclusive communication with youth and stakeholders.
SELF
As coaches hone their skills, youth experience higher quality programming that meets their unique needs. Individual language and cultural considerations, histories of trauma, family and community contexts, and other individual experiences are taken into account when coaches interact with youth and plan programming - creating spaces that are more fun, more connective, and more inclusive for youth.
These improvements are evidenced through outcomes: higher retention rates, higher numbers of female-identifying participants, fewer incidents, and improved relationships.
TEAM
As team spaces become more robust, welcoming, and inclusive the communities that youth are a part of experience benefits as well. Parent engagement increases, school engagement increases, and youth leadership pathways become more entrenched. Youth have access to more services because their team is an integral part of their larger community.
COMMUNITY
As local communities buy into the importance of youth programs and the change they create, they begin to reimagine other spaces. This ripple effect leads to widespread change in economic, social, and educational impacts that we believe lead to deeper, systemic transformation.
SYSTEMS
What Coaches are Saying
When coaches feel equipped, youth feel supported. These quotes and data points from SWB’s coach training participants reflect the ripple effects of inclusive, intentional, and reflective coaching.
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Coaches participating in SWB inclusive coach trainings reported that they "learned skills and tools to help me create belonging with the participants I serve.”
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Coaches participating in SWB inclusive coach training said: “as a result of this workshop I feel more equipped to start conversations around important topics in my community.”
