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Boxing Out Negativity

Program Description

Boxing Out Negativity empowers youth to realize the best in themselves within a safe and supportive environment by providing afterschool and summer programming for North Lawndale’s highest-risk youth ages 8-17.  Boxing is used as a hook to maintain youths’ interest in programming designed to elicit character development and civic responsibility through training, mentorship, tutoring, motivational discussions, and other forms of engagement. 

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Boxing Out Negativity empowers youth to realize the best in themselves within a safe and supportive environment by providing afterschool and summer programming for North Lawndale’s highest-risk youth ages 8-17.  Boxing is used as a hook to maintain youths’ interest in programming designed to elicit character development and civic responsibility through training, mentorship, tutoring, motivational discussions, and other forms of engagement.