MeXOXO commits to inspiring 600 basketball female athletes aged 11-18 to become ambassadors of turning their pain into power through an educational program. The workshops and training methods consist of interactive activities that educate the girls on how they can apply sports training to life issues. They will develop problem solving and crisis management skills by using sports examples. In addition, MeXOXO will facilitate activities which enforce positive self-esteem and self-confidence. All girls will go through the following sequence of topics as they progress through MeXOXO workshops:
1. Methods on how to define, face and address the problem. This class will help them recognize how they face a problem in basketball. MeXOXO will coach them on how they can bring that example into day-to-day real life.
2. Interactive exercises to develop and create strategies to overcome a day to day life problem, integrate the learnings quickly, remove drama, plan the near future and set long term goals. Implementing basketball systems into day to day life gives a strategy which increases incrementally a girl's confidence and success.
3. Meditation and other related self-care strategies on loving yourself as a success strategy. We coach them to recognize that only when you help yourself can you help others. They will learn that, just as the skill of protecting themselves in basketball is important for the team and the collective outcome, it works equally well in day-to-day life situations.
4. The power of finding life-purpose and how to get there, interactive exercise.
The above program has, as a primary goal, to coach and educate girls on how to become inspirational, self-confident, empowered, and influential members of their community. The 600 girls who successfully graduate the program will receive a certificate that identifies them as MeXOXO Teen Ambassadors. The ultimate goal is that via digital and in person methods, we match the Ambassadors with homeless, and otherwise distressed, teenage girls, who do not have access to similar educational resources and opportunities so to receive empowerment mentorship and access to a supportive sisterhood.
First Quarter:
1.Identify girls for Ambassadorship by establishing partnership with Basketball Clubs, Teams & Leagues in
California, US & Tijuana, Mexico.
2. Fine tune the curriculum and survey tests.
Second Quarter:
1. Pre-test in the form of surveys given to the potential Ambassadors.
2. Conduct the workshops to train the youth basketball female athletes who will become the Ambassadors.
3. Identify and engage shelters and community-based organizations, who work with homeless and otherwise disadvantaged girls, to facilitate moving the program into the larger community.
Third Quarter:
1. Post-test given to Ambassadors.
2. Ambassadors trained on curriculum.
3. Ambassadors matched with girls.
4. Orientation for homeless and otherwise disadvantaged girls coming into the program.
5. Pre-test for homeless and disadvantaged girls.
Fourth Quarter:
1. Ambassadors work directly with girls.
2. Post-test the girls who have been recipients.
