“There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.”
– Doug Flutie, Former NFL Quarterback
Are you a CBIM Advocate?
CBIM Advocates believe in leveraging the power of sports to promote healthy relationships. They are savvy organizers who manage their community’s CBIM implementation. If you are passionate about supporting coaches to deliver the program to their athletes, you’re a CBIM Advocate.
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Getting Started
Start off by gaining support for your CBIM implementation and gathering information about your community’s needs. Follow these steps and get your CBIM work ready to go.
Advocate Organizing Journey
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Talk with Your Colleagues
Discuss your plan to implement CBIM with your colleagues to ensure you have support to organize coaches in your community.
Assess Your Community
Identify the schools or organizations where CBIM will be implemented and meet with key stakeholders.
Get to know your Coaches Kit
Become familiar with the program materials such as the Playbook and the Card Series.
Building Partnerships
The success of CBIM depends on strong partnerships. Identify and meet with key stakeholders such as school Principals, Athletic Directors, or influential coaches to gain their support for CBIM. It is also helpful to connect with local experts and violence prevention agencies in your community.
CBIM Organizing Tips
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Advocates Guide to Connecting with Schools and Recruiting ADs
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PLAY VIDEO: TOP TIPS FROM CBIM ADVOCATES101 Clinic Toolkit
This Toolkit contains everything you need to get coaches trained and ready to implement Coaching Boys Into Men at a Coaches Clinic.
Advanced Clinic Toolkit
The Advanced Clinic Toolkit provides CBIM Advocates the tools needed to support coaches with ongoing skills development and multi-year implementation of CBIM.
Toolkit Includes trainings on:
- Creating Healthy Team Environments for LGBTQ+ Athletes
- Coaching Practices to Address Racism in Sports
- Coaching Consent and Boundaries
- Coaching Healthy Conflict, Breakups, and Rejection
- Survivor-Centered Approaches to Discussing Sexual Assault
- And a Guide to Leveraging CBIM Peer Leaders
Coaches Tools
CBIM materials are organized into easy-to-use Toolkits. Explore and download these toolkits for more resources to support your Coaching Boys Into Men work.
- Advocate Toolkit
- Guiding Principles
- CBIM Organizing Journey
- Community Readiness Assessment
Introducing the CBIM Monthly Learning Collaborative
The CBIM Learning Collaborative is a monthly space for CBIM advocates to train with experts and connect with one another on best practices for program implementation, adaptation, evaluation, and more. Sessions are 90 minutes and take place on the first Wednesday of each month 2:00-3:30pm ET (1:00 CT / 12:00 MT / 11:00 PT / 10:00 AK / 9:00 HI).
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Past Learning Collaborative Videos:
- November 2020: Recruiting and Retaining Coaches
- January 2021: CBIM Implementation Steps & Community Readiness
- February 2021: CBIM 101 – The Fundamentals
- March 2021: Panel w/ Champion CBIM Coaches
- April 2021: Gender-Transformative Approaches Within CBIM
- May 2021: Coaching With Courage: A Model to Create Healthy Sports Culture & Address Trauma
- June 2021: Year End Celebration and Reflection
- July 2021: Economic & Financial Abuse in Teen Relationships
- August 2021: The Coaches’ Clinic: Training and Supporting Coaches
- September 2021: Coaches Clinic Demo
- October 2021: A Conversation with K. Durell Cowan of HEAL 901
- January 2022: Training on How to Pitch CBIM
- March 2022: – Release of the CBIM Advanced Coaches Clinic Kit!
- May 2022: – CBIM Mental Health and Wellness Initiative
Athletes As Leaders
Athletes As Leaders, created by the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress, is a Coaching Boys Into Men complementary program for high school female athletic teams. The program aims to empower female-identified youth to take an active role in promoting healthy relationships and ending sexual violence.
- Click links to view Train-the-Trainer Webinars
- Webinar #1: Introduction to Athletes As Leaders
- Webinar #2: Train-the-Trainer for Mentors
- Webinar #3: Advanced Topics
Evaluating
Reflect on the season. CBIM includes surveys and analysis tools to help you gather feedback from your coaches and athletes about the program. By collecting information on program attitudes and behaviors, you’ll be able to better prepare for future seasons!
Evaluation Toolkit
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