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WHO WE ARE

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.

Doc Wayne created The Champions Network™ with the vision of making sport-based mental health services accessible to youth across the globe and empowering organizations, clinicians, sports coaches, teachers, and other youth development professionals to utilize sports in a therapeutic manner.

The Champions Network™ features remote training and live sessions which aim to develop awareness around youth mental health, equip more professionals with the tools to support youth through sport-based initiatives, and reimagine mental health through the lens of sport.

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MISSION VISION OUR LEARNING SPACE OFFERINGS CHAMPIONS CIRCLE

MISSION

We aim to:

Professionalize sport-based therapy
Extend Doc Wayne's reach across the country & globe
Support More Youth & Families Facing Mental Health Challenges

VISION

To be the global standard for sport-based therapy by:

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

OFFERINGS

We offer the following training to our partners:

Trauma-Informed Care
Breaking the Silence: Mental Health 101 for Coaches & Sport-Based Youth Development Professionals
Creating Champions Level 1 (Coach & Clinician Track)
Coaching & Consultation on the Topics of Mental Health, Sport, Trauma-Informed Care, & Re-Entry to Play
Additional Specialized Training for Organizations available upon request (i.e. Supporting LGBTQ+ youth & Athletes of Color)

CHAMPIONS CIRCLE

In an effort to decrease the stigma surrounding mental health, Doc Wayne created the “Champions Circle” – a team of professional athletes who advocate for social change and mental health awareness. The Champions Network™ features conversations with these champions to foster transparency and action surrounding mental health.

Members of the Champions Circle share insight into their own experiences with mental health as it relates to being an athlete. More information regarding who is part of this elite group will be available soon.

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OUR SEASON STATS

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July

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FROM OUR PARTNERS:

When you train with us, you become #TeamDocWayne.

"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."

— COACH SHEM OTIENO

F.E.B.A., Kenya

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What We Offer:

Our Training: -Trauma-Informed Care -Breaking the Silence -Creating Champions Level 1 (Coach & Clinician Track) -Coaching & Consultation -Specialized Training for Organizations

Our Training:

Who can participate in training?

Our training related to trauma-informed sport and Doc Wayne's innovative curriculum, Creating Champions™, are available for individuals and organizations.

Why sport-based therapy?

Sport-based therapy is a viable option for youth who may not progress in traditional talk therapy and has shown to be as effective as traditional outpatient therapy.

What is the purpose of the training?

Our goal is to make dramatic changes in how youth is served, where everyone has a standardized understanding of mental health issues, where cultural disparities are addressed, and open conversations can occur freely.

-Trauma-Informed Care

To be the global standard for sports-based therapy by:

Professionalizing the field of sport-based therapy
Providing training support to orgs worldwide to amplify their impact as it relates to trauma in youth (and our secondary impact)
Decreasing the stigma around trauma and subsequent mental health symptoms and empower youth-focused professionals to triage appropriately
Professionalizing sport-based youth therapy to create a skilled workforce to address mental health through the major youth sports globally

-Breaking the Silence

-Creating Champions Level 1 (Coach & Clinician Track)

To equip as many youth workers, coaches, professionals, and organizations by:

Three-Day training course for youth development professionals to learn how to create a framework to address mental health and trauma symptoms they encounter with youth
- Developing the baseline skills necessary to independently plan and co-facilitate sport-based therapy sessions in their context
- Using a curated curriculum from Masters Level clinicians, led by experienced sports-based therapy youth development professionals
- Supporting more youth development professionals who work with families facing mental health challenges
- Extending Doc Wayne's reach across the globe

-Coaching & Consultation

-Specialized Training for Organizations

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Every child globally has mental health symptoms.

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.

If you want to learn more about our training, contact us at championsnetwork@docwayne.org

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