America SCORES New York seeks to create equitable opportunities for young people to experience sport, express themselves and inspire positive change off the field and outside the classroom. Using a social justice youth development framework, we emphasize racial equity, fair play, teamwork and youth voice as key drivers of building a better, more equitable New York City.
Poet-athletes for Social Justice
Our Model
ASNY is social justice youth development organization that offers soccer, poetry and civic engagement after-school programming to over 600 public school students across New York City.
We build soccer teams that meet three times a week in practice or in games, where they have the opportunity to develop our core values of teamwork, leadership, commitment, and fair play.
Through weekly practices and games, our poet-athletes build their soccer skills through drills and scrimmages and develop the ability to work collaboratively and respectfully with their teammates, coaches, and opponents!
Soccer
Soccer teams participate in 3 hours per week of creative writing workshops to develop literacy skills, practice self-expression, and creativity and produce original works of poetry.
Our poet-athletes build vulnerability through poetry exercises, building their ability to bond with and trust their teammates, all while having important conversations about social justice, their community, and their aspirations!
Poetry
Civic Engagement
Civic engagement is a form of experiential learning whereby youth combine knowledge, critical thinking, and good judgment with teamwork to address genuine community needs.
Poet-athletes use their voices developed through poetry to be stewards of their local communities through youth-led service projects.
