Let's Play Fair
Let’s Play Fair (LPF) is our foundational after school program that ocurrs 4 days/week for 300+ youth ages 7-18.
We have a standardized program structure (Informal Time, Opening Circle, Intentional Sports Activities, Team Time, Closing Circle), with six, 5 week seasons implemented annually. Our standardized curriculum combine less familiar sports (frisbee, lacrosse, baseball, flag football, athletics and volleyball), our 5 Play Fair personal development skills (Culture, Opportunity, Respect, Community, Contribution and Moral Courage) and 9 mental strength tools to help girls and boys reach higher levels of education, employment and lead healthier, self authorizing lives.
Benefits of being enrolled in our program is that we cover school costs (uniform, medical insurance, supplies, lunches), provide family food distributions, and access to free mental health services and counselling.
All Girls United
All Girls United (AGU) is our monthly empowerment program and camp delivered to 200+ Kids Play & Community girls ages 10-18.
AGU empowers girls with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about their bodies, relationships, future education and careers so they can live healthier, more equitable and self-authorizing lives. (4 sessions/year include boys).
Play Fair Community Days
Sundays are Play Fair Community Day!
PFCD’s include Youth-led, Educational sessions and Special Events to over 10,000+ community members annually. PFCD uses using Learning Through Sport stations to educate, engage through sport, foster dialogue and promote positive social cohesion and gender equity. PFCD allows our KPI youth the opportunity to share with others what is being learned in our Let’s Play Fair/All Girls United programs and be seen as leaders in the community.
Community Days are the bridge between our organized programming and the outside community. Our KPI youth and coaches share lessons of the week with community members with the support of coaches. This ensures participants are in a safe environment when new norms/ new ideals are challenged.
Program Goals
With the goal of building a better, more equitable community with a bigger purpose, our programs embrace and teach the Play Fair social emotional (soft) Skills of: Respect, Community, Contribution, Opportunity and Moral Courage.
Local Coaches
Gender Equity Coaches are at the center of our program.
Everything a coach, thinks, says and does shapes the players, the program and the community.
Our one-village-at-a-time approach builds individuals as coaches to deliver interactive activities that help youth participants advance sport and leadership skills as they learn how to better understand each gender’s contributions, both on and off the field.
With the goal of ensuring local ownership and sustainability of programs, KPI recruits and trains local community members aged 19-35 as Coaches. Each Coach receives intensive and interactive sport and gender equity training from Boston-based Edgework Consulting. Many of these Coaches are local school teachers, which further contributes to programs seamlessly becoming a part of village life. KPI has works closely with partner schools and helps support with a quarterly giving program.
