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Athletic activities
Athletic activities primarily include the costly sports of ice, roller, and field hockey. The underserved children in the Disney GOALS program receive free equipment, transportation, insurance, facility access, and coaching.

Learning activities
Learning activities take place in weekly, neighborhood-based classroom sessions with a hockey theme. The program provides guest speakers, feedback to youths, hockey quizzes, volunteer teachers and mentors, and a greater sense of neighborhood teamwork. Weekly tutoring complements these sessions.

Collage of Disney GOALS kids involved in various programs


In service activities
In service activities, youths assist mentally or physically challenged children and adults, senior citizens, and veterans groups. Through community service, Disney GOALS kids learn important values and life lessons.

Job training
Job training and career counseling complete the development cycle. Eligible Disney GOALS participants develop work disciplines and skills in job-training sessions that support the program: equipment management, classroom support, youth supervision, refereeing, and coaching.


Yet, for all the good it gives, GOALS takes a lot, too. Skates, sticks, pads, and other hockey equipment aren't free. For instance, here are some examples of the fixed costs GOALS faces:

    $25.00 -- A new hockey bag
    $50.00 -- A pair of skates
    $100.00 -- A week of tutoring services
    $500.00 -- Amount required to outfit a GOALS child in hockey gear
    $1,500.00 -- Cost of sponsoring a GOALS child all year.

GOALS also provides books, teachers, teaching materials, field trips, vehicles, and many other components of the program, all of which cost money.