THROUGH SUMMERCOACHING, TRINITY ANDJAVONN FIND OUT WHATTHEY’RE MADE OFJAVONN AND TRINITY | PEACEPLAYERS BROOKLYNIn the summer of 2022, six youth participants from PeacePlayers Brooklyn got to role reverse and seewhat it feels like to run in a coach’s shoes. And as youth coaches Trinity, 17, and Javonn, 21, tell it, itwas a game changer of a summer. Trinity and Javonn coached PeacePlayers programs as part of theDepartment of Youth and Community Development’s Summer Employment Program, which placesyouth around the city with summer jobs for 25 hours a week.Javonn has been a PeacePlayers Brooklyn fixture since nearly the beginning, while Trinity is anewer recruit. But for both of them, coaching presented a paradigm shift, a sort of mirror reflectingthe people they have the power to be. The summer coaching gig challenged them in the best wayspossible, pushing them out of their comfort zone, and forcing them to do things that were scaryat first but ultimately helped them prove to themselves that they were more than up to the task maybe any task.PEACEPLAYERS UNITED STATES STORYBOOK39,,
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