Up2Us, Inc.

Up2Us Sports’ Healing Power of Coaches program is a citywide effort to ramp up the support and training of trauma-informed coaches who will inspire the health and wellbeing of Los Angeles youth through access to PLAY post-pandemic. Our two-pronged approach will leverage LA2050 support to increase the number of coaches working with youth in LA’s most underserved communities and provide training citywide to 1,000 sports coaches in positive youth development programs who use play to impact their physical, social-emotional and academic health.

LA2050 will make possible “The Healing Power of Coaches”, a citywide effort to support and train coaches who will inspire the health and wellbeing of Los Angeles youth through PLAY. Our two-pronged approach will involve leveraging LA2050 support to increase the number of coaches working with youth in LA’s most underserved communities and to provide training citywide to all youth sports coaches who want to use play to impact the physical, social-emotional and academic health of young people.