The Coaching Academy
Creating Achievers.
MHHFO Coaching Academy is our flagship life-skills and leadership program — pairing age-appropriate coaching, mentoring and the arts with a clear-eyed understanding of what kids who are fearful, underserved, or navigating foster care, homelessness or a single-parent household actually need to thrive.
Our mission
Create an environment designed to promote growth, personal development, and improve academic performance.
Our vision
To promote quality care and assurance with a continuum of consistency, in a safe, nurturing and comfortable therapeutic environment — with follow-up care for every participant.
Who we coach
Age-appropriate coaching from 9 to 18.
The Academy meets young people where they are and grows with them — confidence, responsibility, communication, decision-making, healthy relationships, leadership and college/career readiness.
Foundations
Character, communication and confidence-building
Momentum
Decision-making, conflict resolution and goal setting
Launch
Financial literacy and college/career readiness
About the Academy
An outlet for gifts kids didn't know they had.
Our staff create an outlet for children to discover their gifts and talents through painting, drawing, storybook writing, playwriting and skits, pottery, music, dance, poetry, fashion & design, and simply having time to talk. Because arts programs are so often the first thing cut from school budgets, we've built the arts directly into our literacy-based educational programming.
This approach has helped a diverse group of children ages 6–16 — including children who experience maltreatment, who are frequently fearful or depressed, who feel unloved, needy or underserved, or who come from low-income families, foster care, homelessness, or divorced or single-parent households. These are the young people most likely to be at higher risk for dropping out of school, unplanned living arrangements, juvenile involvement, feelings of hopelessness, and self-isolation — and most likely to repeat a grade or face behavioral challenges without the right support in place.
Programs & activities
What a week at the Academy looks like.
- Life Skills Coach
- Field Trips & Outings Mentorship
- Transportation
- Motivational Speakers
- Community Involvement & Visual Learning
- Workshops: Health, Nutrition & Fitness
- Family Dynamics
- Social Services (Referrals)
- Recreation
- Job Skills
- Performing Arts
What kids gain
Benefits that last past graduation.
- Growing confidence & discovering self-worth
- Developing perseverance and resilience
- Building a support system
- Developing leadership skills
- Gaining control of your future
- Higher education & higher-salaried jobs
- Becoming a productive, contributing community citizen
- Developing a sense of purpose and belonging
- Learning time management and organizational skills
- Reaching fullest potential — and happiness
- Discovering your passion
We've collaborated with
Community partners who make this possible.
...and many more to come.
Ready to enroll, refer, or partner with the Academy?
Reach out to MHHFO directly — the Coaching Academy team will follow up to talk through age group, schedule, and next steps.
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