Agency Details:

Through writing, soccer and community Service, Seattle SCORES empowers children from high need elementary schools to realize their unique potential.

Description:
An affiliate of America SCORES, Seattle SCORES is an intensive, five-day per week after-school program that works to enrich the lives of Seattle's inner-city youth through regular participation and skill building in creative writing, poetry, soccer and community service. Teamwork - the key to success in both education and sports -- is the common denominator.

The program takes place every day after school for 90 minutes on school grounds. Separate boys and girls teams of 16 attend either intensive creative writing workshops or soccer practice. SCORES program activities & curriculum are administered by professional public school teachers, which provides a day-to-day familiarity with and commitment to the students that further inspires their success.

History:
In 1994, an inner-city public school teacher in Washington D.C. started a soccer team for the girls in her school who had no safe place to go after the school bell rang. When inclement weather prohibited soccer activities, she taught her team poetry. The teacher noticed that the resulting translation of teamwork from an athletic endeavor to literacy activities proved to be a unique and effective way to inspire her students to achieve academic goals. These early efforts evolved into the largest after school program in Washington D.C. and ultimately the national organization of America SCORES. In 2002, SCORES was brought to Seattle by Don Horowitz, a former Superior Court Judge, and four other community members who believed in our mission. In November 2002, Julie Cain, herself a soccer player, left her job in finance to take the position of Executive Director and make Seattle SCORES a reality.

Contact people:

Megan Hill, Community Outreach Coordinator, (phone), (email) Jake Witt, Administrative Assistant, (phone), (email)

Address:

2450 6th Ave S Seattle, WA 98134 (See a map)