🌟Summer Nights 2025!
Free Youth Athletic & Enrichment Program
Join Coach B and the Youth in Crisis team for 7 weeks of movement, mentorship, and fun — designed to empower youth through sports and life skills.
🗓 Dates: July – August (7 weeks)
🕕 Time: Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Ryan’s Playground, 350 River Street, Mattapan, MA
✅ Ages 9–14
✅ Overall athletic & sports performance, basketball, games, life skills, and more
✅ Free snacks provided
⚠️ LIMITED SPOTS — registration is required to participate!
WHO WE ARE
Our Roots: A Word from Our Co-Founder
"As a mentor, community leader, Black man, and family man, my mission for years has been to ensure a better future for all and provide a safe and supportive environment in which each and every young person will succeed. Since 1998, Youth in Crisis has helped young people pursue higher education or successful careers in order to secure a better future for themselves and their community." Anthony "Big Time" Seymour, Co-Founder.
Inspire
Lead
As the new Executive Director, Coach B brings a powerful blend of athletic performance training, mental wellness coaching, and a growth mindset to every young person he meets — whether they dream of being the next Jayson Tatum, a top esports competitor, a streaming star, or a future doctor.
Raised in the same neighborhoods, walking the same streets, Coach B knows what it feels like to grow up with limited hope. Now, he builds champions from the inside out — helping youth strengthen their minds, bodies, and belief systems through movement, mindset, and mentorship. With deep respect for 25 years of service already laid, he’s here to grow that legacy and guide the next generation — and beyond.
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Black History
"Melnea Agnes Cass (June 16, 1896 – December 16, 1978) was an American community and civil rights activist. She was deeply involved in many community projects and volunteer groups in the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston and helped found the Boston local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
She was active in the fight to desegregate Boston public schools, as a board member and as president of the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a young woman, Cass also assisted women with voter registration after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. She was affectionately known as the 'First Lady of Roxbury.'" - Source: website
