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The PIC’UP Your Life program (Positive Intervention and Coaching for Urban Players) is a free sports centered program whose goal is to reduce crime, teach essential life skills, and direct young men toward furthering their education and employment opportunities by providing them with a positive alternative to drugs, gangs and violence. Of course, we don’t claim to have the answer to all the challenges facing our communities but we do declare that an integral part of any community-wide approach to combat gangs must include a structured, sports and recreation-based intervention program. We believe that a more applicable alternative to the negative influence of gang involvement is a positive support group of peers similar to what exist within a college men’s basketball program.
The NCML targets the 18-25 year old age group because there are virtually no resources for them. The PIC’UP program catches these young men at a crucial window of opportunity. They are old enough to start realizing that they want something better out of their lives. They want to become productive members of society, and through the components of the PIC’UP program, are offered insight into realizing their own potential. The training techniques used in the pre-game workshops allow the participants to define and utilize their strengths through realistic goal setting. With the support of the NCML, these individuals are given the skills to change the path of their own lives. Regardless of their background and past experiences, these men will realize that they too can be successful in all aspects of life.
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