New Breed of Youth or New B.O.Y. launched its 42-week-long sports league called Playing for Peace.
INDIANAPOLIS — We are a week into the new year and already three Indianapolis teens have been killed.“They’re concerned about the gun violence in our city because it’s affecting them not only from a family standpoint, but they’re friends are dying. They don’t have a place to grieve. They don’t know how to grieve," Hines said.Beginning Saturday, the youth mentoring group launched its 42-week-long sports league called Playing for Peace.
The goal is to engage boys ages 10 to 17 in sports like basketball, flag football and an iron man competition. Although youth sports is the draw for many of these kids and teens, New B.O.Y. will also focus on life lessons.“Once we’re able to connect with them through sports, then we can start that mindset shift. In regards to what it’s like to be a man. What it’s like to go to college, what it’s like to have goals and look towards your future," Hines said.
22-year-old Courtney Radford says being in the program at 15 and 16 helped shape him into the man he is today. “It showed me that there are people out there who care for you and there are people in the community who actually take a stand," Radford said.“After that decision I made the choice that I didn’t want my life to be like that. And I went back to school, and graduated from freshmen credits as a senior, played on a semi state basketball team and I worked a job while I was in high school,” he said.“This is a connection between everybody.
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