Program Pairs Veterans with At-Risk Youths

With the unemployment rate for veterans around seven percent, Paul Caccamo wanted to help those returning from war find work. Caccamo is the founder and CEO of Up2Us Sports, which is a nonprofit that aims to use sports to help at-risk children, as well as aiding their development. Using the framework from Up2Us Sports’ Coach Across America, a program similar to Teach For America or City Year that places people in schools or communities throughout the country to coach at-risk youth, Caccamo developed the Operation Coach program.

According to Caccamo, Operation Coach is the “perfect re-entry program” for veterans. Due to their experiences at war, Caccamo has found that veterans are particularly good at dealing with at-risk youth “because they understand violence, they understand trauma, and they understand what an inner city kid is going through.”

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