Our 2010 Vision, Mission and Values: Creating locally owned, sustainable programs.
Vision Statement:
Coaches across Continents envisions the day when all children, irrespective of heritage or nationality, have the knowledge, skills, attitudes, resources and support to make healthy life choices. Coaches across Continents envisions the day when a language of possibility is universal, when hope permeates all communities and when the laughter of children reverberates as they live and learn together.
Mission Statement:
By developing their capacity to make meaningful and relevant life choices, Coaches across Continents uses football to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged children in developing countries. Coaches across Continents, works with teachers and leaders from within communities, to create locally owned and sustainable partnerships that produce long-term positive change.
Values:
Coaches across Continents believes in
- The laughter of children
- Possibility and hope.
- The capacity for change.
- Integrity and mutual understanding.
- Respectful relationships
- Trust based teaching.
- Lifelong learning
- Personal responsibility
- Cooperation and collaboration
- Ownership and sustainability
- The power of choice.
The Hat-Trick Initiatives:
Coaches across Continents was launched in June 2008. Based on first –hand research in 65 countries in the past 7 years, Coaches across Continents developed a unique face-to face and on-line educational curriculum that uses soccer games to educate teachers/volunteers and children on health, leadership, life and social skills. Its projects are called ‘Hat-Trick Initiatives’ and take place over three years. In year1, local teachers and volunteers are trained by international coaches within their own communities to use the Coaches across Continents curriculum. This training is further developed each year for three consecutive years. In year 2, one coach from a local community is funded to travel and work in the UK or USA to gain cultural, social and soccer education to take back with them and inform their subsequent work within their own community. In year 3, fields and equipment plus school supplies are provided, so that local programmes become self sustainable by the local community. On-going and year-round mentoring utilising Coaches across Continents unique on-line curriculum ensures that all communities involved have support both throughout the Hat-Trick Initiative and in the years to follow, thus facilitating sustainability
