Champions Network
The Champions Network® is Doc Wayne’s external training program. We partner with a range of organizations, clinicians, sports coaches, and other youth development professionals and explain how to include trauma-informed, sport-based, mental health support in their work with young people.
Mission
- Professionalize sport-based therapy
- Extend Doc Wayne’s reach across the country & globe
- Support More Youth & Families Facing Mental Health Challenges
Vision
- Professionalizing the field of sport-based therapy
- Providing mental health training support to organizations worldwide to amplify their impact (and our secondary impact)
- Decreasing the stigma around mental health and empower youth-focused professionals to triage appropriate mental health situations and refer to professionals when possible
- Professionalizing sport-based youth development from a training/holistic development of youth angle
- Creating a skilled workforce to address mental health through the major youth sports entities globally
Our Learning Space
- Interactive and conversation-driven training
- Space that honors all intersectional identities and lived experiences
- Curated content from Masters Level clinicians, led by experienced sport-based therapy youth workers
- Space that fosters social connection and group knowledge sharing in an inclusive, stigma-free way
Our sincere thanks to the training you conducted for our young coaches and athletes. We at Far East Basketball Association [F.E.B.A] are very much grateful and full of happiness since the training was very informative to the participants. To many [of our coaches], it was an eye-opener towards mental health approach.
Every child globally has mental health.
We want to equip partner organizations to be part of a system that is a network of youth providers that provide youth services in the sports context.
Together, we break the stigma of mental health in sports.