As the Victory Scholars start to get into the swing of things, we are becoming more familiar with our schedule and the various groups that we work with. In this blog, I will focus only on the Crumlin community EHOOPS group for young adults. Sport Changes Life staff, along with Phillip Johnson, Mark Kilpatrick and I meet with this group on Mondays for two hours. For the first hour, we facilitate participation of sporting activity. The second hour, however, involves working in educational workshops that help to build the participants CV. These groups are exceptional. They are truly excited to be a part of the program and are devoted to what the program is all about.
Sometimes we have off site trips. The first off site trip that I was involved in was a team building session to an air soft facility. I was excited to participate and to be given the opportunity to get to know the young adults in a different setting. The match was an extraordinary success. The picture above is an insight depicting a fraction of the positive impact that the scholars and the SCL staff have on the young people of the EHOOPS program. A series of simple matches of friendly airsoft war games paved a path for the formation of closer bonds between SCL staff/scholars and EHOOP young adults. This allowed for conversations about aspirations and goals of these young scholars to emerge as they began to trust and open up to the participating scholars. Instances like these are what we are about! Creating moments that help foster an environment where we can educate, inspire, and motivate, so that we can all be VICTORIOUS!
