The Need
“When a home is on fire, we don’t debate if the fire is dangerous. We put out the fire, we extinguish the threat to life.
Our city sits at a crossroads of decreasing life expectancy from chronic disease and high rates of underemployment for returning citizens.
We believe a career as a Professional Coach, can address both of these issues at once. Representation and access matter and require deliberate action to change. Our program is that change, one rep at a time. It is up to us.”
Resources Matter
In Pennsylvania, it costs over $40,000/year to keep someone in prison. That is a cost not only to each taxpayer, but it also means keeping someone out of the workforce, not contributing, not working, not raising a family. We believe that once people come home, employment resources are vital to keeping people out of prison and re-connected to community.
An address can be the difference in if you have Grandparents
Where you live in Philadelphia can mean living long enough to see a new generation. Consider that. A generation, defined by less than two miles.
The color of your skin shouldn’t be a determinant of life expectancy.
We believe it’s especially important to empower Black men to become Coaches because they have the lowest life expectancy in Philadelphia.
We know the solution.
The only thing more heartbreaking than these numbers is that all of these conditions can be prevented or reversed through exercise and nutrition. They do not need to be death sentences, but without a means to learn how to be safely become active - they too often are.
Source material from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s 2019 Health of the City Report