A key aspect of the Capital City Crew program is the foundation of life skills taught by using the SUPER Curriculum and the Red Bandanna Project. The off-ice portion of Capital City Crew includes life skills sessions through classroom instruction, interactive exercises and activities. Our SUPER & Red Bandanna Project Life Skills curriculum is designed to prepare our participants to contribute positively to the community and be caring, productive citizens in order to reach their full potential on and off the ice. We conduct 15 Life Skills Workshops by integrating our CCC Core Values. Here is a brief summary of our Core Values and Life Skills Curriculum:
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CORE VALUES
Commitment |
honest & integrity |
Attend all CREW practices and events
Always give 100% effort |
Take responsibility for your actions
Be honest and truthful in everything you do Look for opportunities to do random acts of kindness |
Perseverance |
sportsmanship |
To succeed in hockey you have to learn from your mistakes
Accept that mistakes and bad breaks will happen Look for ways to learn and move past them Stay positive and never let yourself down |
Honor the game
Learn and follow the rules of hockey ROOTS: Respect Opponents, Officials, Teammates and Yourself |
teamwork |
Leadership |
Develop positive relationships with coaches and fellow CREW members
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Be a role model for other CREW members
Look for opportunities to demonstrate positive behavior and attitude |
SUPER Program
SUPER is a sports-based program that takes advantage of the clearly defined, contingency-dependent, closed environment of sport and uses it as a “training ground” for life. Sports-based life skills programs seek to cultivate positive youth development by teaching and promoting life skills in a sport context. While sport itself does not inherently promote positive youth development, positive outcomes are more likely achieved when intentionally designed and structured programs are implemented. Participants are taught to use a variety of skills to improve their athletic performance, some physical and some mental, to recognize situations both in and out of sports requiring these skills, and then to apply them in sport and non-sport settings.
The goals of the SUPER Program are that each participant leave the program with the understanding that:
The goals of the SUPER Program are that each participant leave the program with the understanding that:
1. There is a relationship between performance excellence in sport and personal excellence in life
2. Mental skills can enhance both sport performance and personal performance 3. It is important to set and attain goals in sport and life 4. Roadblocks to goals can be overcome 5. Effective participation in sport requires being healthy and physically fit |
Red Bandanna project
The Capital City Crew leverages the Red Bandanna Project curricula and lessons for character development, social and emotional learning for young people. These lessons have been inspired by the example and spirit of Welles Remy Crowther, a 9/11 Civilian Hero known around the world as the “Man in the Red Bandanna” for his selfless, heroic actions during his final hour at the World Trade Center. Stories of other people whose actions have reflected exemplary character are shared and explored as well.
Lessons on Leadership, Caring for Others, TEAM, The Power of One, Bridging Divides, Forgiveness and Carpe Diem have been developed for schools and youth programs by a team of educators of 30 to 40 years experience in their fields, with an advisory group of educational professionals. Three of the six lead writers have written curricula for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the New Jersey Holocaust Commission and one for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC as well. Development of the Red Bandanna Project curricula was supported by the Fetzer Institute in partnership with the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust.
Lessons on Leadership, Caring for Others, TEAM, The Power of One, Bridging Divides, Forgiveness and Carpe Diem have been developed for schools and youth programs by a team of educators of 30 to 40 years experience in their fields, with an advisory group of educational professionals. Three of the six lead writers have written curricula for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the New Jersey Holocaust Commission and one for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC as well. Development of the Red Bandanna Project curricula was supported by the Fetzer Institute in partnership with the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust.
Thank you to the Welles Remy Crowther Trust for donating $2,500 to Capital City Crew this year!
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