"Teaching Our Youth How to Play Golf & Live Life 1 Stroke at a Time"
Through the game of golf, 1STROKE strives to assist young males and females in meeting short and long term goals in route to becoming a more positive part of their community. 1STROKE seeks to assist young males and females with discovering their life goals, and to assist them with identifying the drive and determination necessary to achieve those goals. Our program partners with youth and their parents or guardian to develop an “Approach the Green” life plan. This team will follow an outline of events and activities that will facilitate both personal and peer development.The Back 9 is1Stroke’s premiere disposition improvement program that aims to address the issues that birth in some cases, the inappropriate behaviors of our participants. Using a one-of-its-kind nine (9) step approach, program instructors present various techniques in self-assurance, character building and decision-making in an effort to assist participants in establishing new attitudes toward positive living.
This includes new ideas, personal goal-setting, and a renewed spirit to over come adversities. With these tools, program participants will be able to develop a personalized “Approach the Green” success plan and visualize a new way of thinking that will ultimately support new approaches toward positive living. A certificate of completion will be presented to those who have successfully completed the program.
The high rate of attrition is an additional challenge programs face upon implementation. The Back 9 approach is to offer intensive, high levels of accommodations for participants, starting with the number of participants, per cycle/session. 1STROKE will outreach to local non-profit organizations, churches, and community service groups; the criminal justice system, and even the local work release programs to inform them of our program and will include presentations, as well as disseminating program literature.
As participants are identified by friends, family, clergy, peers and social service and rehabilitation and criminal justice communities, they are most likely ready and able to benefit and succeed from their participation in the program. Through our service delivery model we anticipate highly successful and positive outcomes.
1STROKE provides materials, activities and presentations by various partners from both the business and athletic sectors which promote self motivation, personal fortitude and the ability to know that they too can be successful.
Throughout the program, participants receive one-on-one mentoring along with an individualized assessment plan that identifies key intrapersonal goals with selected strategies to achieve them.
Upon completion, 1STROKE will continue the delivery of its mission by making resources and program support available to all program participants for as long as it is needed or desired.
