About Beyond Boxing
Our Mission
The Beyond Boxing Program
The Beyond Boxing Program
Beyond Boxing's mission is to engage justice-involved young adults in an immersive social environment through our dual curriculum of boxing and social emotional instruction to internalize our Core Values and foster sustainable strategies for identifying and responding to positive mentorship within one's community and beyond...
The Beyond Boxing Program
The Beyond Boxing Program
The Beyond Boxing Program
The Beyond Boxing model embeds tailored educational instruction and credible mentorship within community-based boxing gyms to provide a unique opportunity to 14-25 year olds whom are involved in the criminal justice system. A social emotional curriculum delivered in a classroom setting and an accompanying boxing protocol operated by credible messengers work in unison to deliver instruction in our Core Values.
Beyond Beyond Boxing
The Beyond Boxing Program
Beyond Beyond Boxing
Beyond Boxing is a choice for immediate impact and sustainable successes. Graduates continue to benefit from their inclusion in our program in numerous ways. Staying connected to our program, staying connected to boxing and utilizing our network allows graduates to sustainably replicate the lessons they've learned beyond our program. Our referral partners, our community partners, our coaches and most importantly our clients have shared some of their impressions and experiences with us. Navigate to the Testimonials page to read more, in the words of various stakeholders.
The Beyond Boxing Method
The Gym, Beyond Boxing's Community Partner
Our Coaches, the Protocol and Beyond Boxing's Credible Messengers
Our Coaches, the Protocol and Beyond Boxing's Credible Messengers
BB identifies and partners with gyms that have a long-standing history of serving justice impacted communities. To date, Beyond Boxing has partnered with two community-based boxing gyms, El Maestro and Brotherhood Boxing Club, located in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The entirety of our program (the classroom and boxing session) within in our host gym.
Our Coaches, the Protocol and Beyond Boxing's Credible Messengers
Our Coaches, the Protocol and Beyond Boxing's Credible Messengers
Our Coaches, the Protocol and Beyond Boxing's Credible Messengers
Beyond Boxing carefully selects USA Boxing accredited coaches to work as mentors for our clients. These mentors are chosen for the lived experiences they share with our clients, for their belief in positive change and their credentials as amateur and pro level boxing coaches. They work closely with our director to design our unique Boxing Protocol. They are the credible messengers and community leaders that connect our clients to BB's vision for positive change.
Our Classroom, Beyond Boxing's Social Emotional Learning
Our Coaches, the Protocol and Beyond Boxing's Credible Messengers
Our Classroom, Beyond Boxing's Social Emotional Learning
Our classroom is guided by our Core Values and our unique Social Emotional Curriculum. Classroom instruction leads our clients through dynamic conversations and activities that help them locate, define and respond positively to Mentorship. Initially embedded in the gym, dialogues and activities invite our clients to apply the successes they are having during our program elsewhere: within their communities, their schools and while employed.
Program Eligibility and Contacting Beyond Boxing
Beyond Boxing works with Justice Involved young adults ages 14-25. Our clients are referred to us from a network of city-wide Justice Alternative organizations that help justice impacted youth navigate their alternative. Beyond Boxers are often undergoing services aligned to court-based consequences; Alternative to Sentencing, Re-Entry, Pretrial Supervision, Probation related. Our service meet various expectations for these mandates and have led to significant, positive justice outcomes.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Ages: 14 - 25
- Currently Enrolled in a Justice Alternative Organization or Program
- Meeting expectations for a court appointed mandate, Pretrial or Re-entry services
- Has a Case Manager, Youth Advocate or similar liaison that can refer young adults to our services and engage in on-going support.
For more information:
If you are a member of a justice alternative organization, a parent of a young adult currently meeting expectations for a court mandate, or a Justice Involved young adult who is interested in our services, please email Andrew Neville via the button below. All participants must be enrolled in and referred by a Justice Alternative organization for them to be considered by Beyond Boxing.
Boxing on the Beyond Boxing Team
Boxing on the Beyond Boxing Team
Beyond Boxing's Classroom
Beyond Boxing's Graduates
Beyond Beyond Boxing ...
Our Network
Beyond Boxing invites our partners to visit, present and provide information about their services during programming at our host boxing gyms. In this photo, panelists from one of our referral partners talks to Beyond Boxers about their Job Readiness and Job Placement services. Our relationships and networks allow us to further our clients access to resources and sustainable opportunitie
Staying Connected
Beyond Boxing graduates remain connected to our program, becoming liaisons to other young adults interested in our services. Graduates are invited to become Peer to Peer mentors to incoming participants and lead presentations to our partner organizations. Here two graduates join Beyond Boxing Director, Andrew Neville, for a presentation to a referral partner.
Scholarship
Upon graduation, Beyond Boxers are awarded an additional 3 months of membership to our host gym. Interested grads are invited to join our coaches' boxing teams. Many graduates have remained connected to boxing and our mentors by pursuing their goals as amateur boxers. This is yet another part of Beyond Boxing's vision for successful, sustainable outcomes. In this picture a Beyond Boxing