SWINGPALS INC
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Mission Statement
SwingPals provides a safe environment for children who lack resources to explore their potential. SwingPals is not a golf program. Golf is just an outlet allowing students to apply skills they learn in the classroom and virtually through our home-based program. We are an organization that has been focused since 2012 on improving the physical and mental health of students in the DPS by coaching mindfulness, emotional regulation, and physical coordination in schools. SwingPals positively impacts the health and well-being of over 1,000 students each year by offering unique programming based on scientifically proven protocols that facilitate student success and learning.
About This Cause
Creating a world where racism does not exist, a world where there is racial equity for all is not a new concept for SwingPals. We have been in Durham Public Schools, and in the Durham neighborhoods where the need is greatest, since 2012. SwingPals first entered DPS nine years ago with the express purpose of delivering transformational programming with the capacity to create real change for children and their families and whose lives have been marginalized. Children who suffer from the impact of generational abuse, suffering even more so today as a result of the pandemic. Many DPS students are experiencing trauma, and learning does not occur when a child is feeling the effects of trauma. SwingPals addresses these issues by working with students in school, at home (virtually), and at Hillandale Golf Course. Many Durham children struggle academically and reside in communities with widespread drug use, gangs, teen pregnancy, and poverty. Often there is a lack of locally developed leadership. These children’s needs call for innovative and transformative programs like SwingPals, with established track records, to begin developing young leaders starting in middle school. Currently, SwingPals serves over 1,000 Durham Public School students each year. To be assured of serving students and families who have been marginalized and who lack resources, SwingPals partners with the four Durham Middle Schools that report the highest rates of free/reduced-price lunches (75% on average, data from 2019/20 school year) and the lowest percentage of students testing at or above grade level (36% on average, students at grade level proficiency, data from 2017/18 school year). Schools served are Neal, Lowe’s Grove, Shepard, and Githens Middle Schools. Most SwingPals students live at or below the poverty line, in single-parent homes, or in foster care. 15% of our year-round and after-school students are dealing with mental health issues such as ADHD and autism. Our 6th grade in-school program is comprised of 50% female, 50% male, 50% African American, 36% Hispanic, 10% White, 4% Other. Students in our year-round after-school and home-based programs are 50% female, 50% male, 50% African American, 40% Hispanic, 4% white, 6% other. From each year’s class of over 1,000 6th graders, students wishing to continue learning social and emotional skills, while getting outdoor exercise, can enroll in our year-round after-school program, staying in SwingPals through 12th grade.