Chalk Talk Group Therapy
This project's parent organization is Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc.
It operates in United States
It uses Basketball, Football (Soccer), American Football
Entered the Best New Project
More about Chalk Talk Group Therapy
Chalk Talk, a sport-based billable group therapy program, creates a clinician-guided environment where sport is the lens through which youth examine important social and emotional issues in real-time. Sessions are based upon the principles of the do the good® (DtG) curriculum, which was built on the therapeutic model of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Using teen-friendly slogan-aided language, and a behavioral and skills-development focus, Chalk Talk delivers the curriculum through a trained coaching and clinical staff.
Chalk Talk utilizes the youth-friendly vehicle of sport to effectively deliver contemporary theoretical and evidence-based mental health practices. Since the first Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Studies indicated that as many as 60% of mainstream youth experience emotionally and physically taxing trauma by the age of 16, a growing body of research has established the pressing need for trauma-sensitive youth interventions. The National Center for Children in Poverty underscores this alarming need by publishing rates of exposure as high as 90% among children in high crime (almost invariably low-income) neighborhoods and those in the Juvenile Justice System.