Grand Traverse Community Enrichment

We are so proud to be offering FREE after school programs this upcoming school year!

Throughout the 2024/2025 school year, we will be hosting FREE Self Defense & Anti-Bullying after school programs in FOUR different schools throughout Grand Traverse and Leelanau Counties.

These programs are open to anyone ages 8-18 and is a safe environment to learn different skills needed to build confidence, decision making and respect!

Reaching this goal would provide much needed equipment & sanitation supplies for our trips out to these communities to work with these kids at no cost to them. Our coaches bring out all safety equipment and sanitize it between sessions to reduce the risk of germs spreading.

If you're looking for more of an insight as to what we do, visit our website at www.grandtraversecommunityenrichment.org

You can make a HUGE difference by donating today to Grand Traverse Community Enrichment!

Every donation counts and is 100% tax exempt.

We have partnered with Significant Strikes to provide FREE monthly training to our active duty officers throughout the region!

In addition to their LEO training, we cover different scenarios that are specific to this region as well as practice training in controlled, but high pressure situations. Understanding the force necessary as well as being confident in your own ability is invaluable in this line of work.

Our coaches work with and without props to help give advice in any situation, and are available throughout the class to walk around and answer any questions.

Funding will be used to continue to provide this EVERY MONTH at NO COST to our active duty officers!

You can make a difference in the safety of our community by donating today to Grand Traverse Community Enrichment and supporting this AMAZING program!

Our coaches travel monthly to work with youth on different Boxing techniques and talk with them about the importance of Mental & Physical Health and how to use Martial Arts as a safe outlet. 

Cadillac Boxing Club (Never Down for the Count Youth Services) gets kids in the gym and prepares them for amateur boxing fights! They are donating a huge portion of this funding by providing us with a space and equipment. Help us get the rest of the way there!

In smaller, more remote communities, there is a lack of Martial Art & Combat Sport options for kids in school.

Outside of school sports, kids have very limited options for mental and physical growth through athletics. Even with school sports as an option, families often have financial and schedule constraints which forces kids to miss out on, not only exercise, but also team building, comradary, and sportsmanship.

Programs like these, which are no cost to students, and brought to their schools/communities, give students an opportunity to learn Martial Arts and gain all of the benefits that come along with it, as well as have a consistent, constructive outlet for their mental and physical health.

When habits are taught at a young age, it instills routine. Learning Martial Arts & Combat Sports forms a routine of physical and mental health care. If consistent, the respect, discipline, awareness, & control, towards themselves and others, are habits and routines they will carry with them for the rest of their lives, whether they continue to train long term or not.

Martial Arts & Combat Sports has been a long time anti-bullying tool, and more recently has become recognized as a positive mental health outlet, which we are hoping to bring to more remote communities throughout our region.

This program is taught by SafeSport, USA Boxing, and CPR certified instructors. Our Coaches have real life fight experience, and have competed in a multitude of different Martial Arts and Combat Sports. We have male & female coaches, and will have 2-4 coaches at each seminar, to ensure the kids get enough direction.

Our goal is to visit (3) different schools, monthly, in our 5 county region, throughout the upcoming school year. This program is currently for grades 6-8, but if we are able to meet our goal, we are hoping to expand the program to younger AND older students!

If we hit our fundraising goal, of $4800, we will be able to purchase needed equipment, and Coaches pay for the entire 2022-2023 school year.

Significant Strikes Boxing & MMA has proudly pledged the additional $1100 to complete program funding.