Due to COVID-19, Connected Through Hoops went virtual and created a series of videos featuring fathers and sons having life conversations and practicing basketball skills drills. The call-to-action is for fathers or father-adjacent men to gather the boys in your lives and watch the videos together, have conversations, and practice the skill drills. We are hopeful that more connections can be made through hoops, even in a pandemic.

The first video features, HWLF Board Member and Creator of the Connected Through Hoops program, James Tate, Jr. and his son James III, as well as David and his son Aidan. Support for the Connected Through Hoops program is provided by The Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities.