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EduSoccer Program: Safe-Hub's EduSoccer program helps to close the afterschool activity gaps in under-served neighborhoods by providing high-quality soccer programming that combines physical activity with life-skills development in areas like respect, teamwork, self-control, and perseverance. The EduSoccer curriculum, refined over 10 years of research and development, guides the core programs Safe-Hubs provide to young people ages 4 to 18 years-old by providing age-appropriate, structured play and sport activity to develop active youth with positive attitudes and values, strong resilience and social competencies, and a good quality of life. EduSoccer practice offers for 90 minutes three times per week through all four seasons. In FY2021, Safe-Hub provided free EduSoccer programming to young people ages 4-18 from resource constrained neighborhoods of the Philadelphia area. The EduSoccer program served 390 young people through 633 hours of programming and volunteer support from 65 trained coach-mentors.

Collective Impact: Safe-Hub partners with like-minded local community development organizations to act as a resource hub for families to access support such as housing and utility assistance, voter and census information, food distribution, mental health support, and more at the Safe-Hub. These partner offerings support a thriving collaborative space for local nonprofits, while ensuring that families are supported holistically, whatever the unique need. In FY2021, Safe-Hub hosted 2 community resource events with community partners in health and wellness, food insecurity, family services industries. Safe-Hub also hosted regular free food distribution for all EduSoccer program enrollees and community members throughout the year. At Safe-Hub's Thanksgiving food drive, it supported 101 beneficiaries with free food access, and at the end-of-year community resource event, it reached 250 community members and hosted 16 partners and small business vendors.