Project Uplift helps individuals achieve the following ideals through involvement in sports:​

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• Build depth of character and a sense of personal mission

• Accept and respond to factors of personal accountability and responsibility

• Develop and practice exemplary social and inter-personal skills

• Demonstrate decision-making,goal-setting and problem solving abilities

• Display positive relationship behaviors in peer group, family, and fields of authority

• Achieve identified career goals

• Make the transition from the athletic arena to community involvement and leadership

• Operate with awareness of self and others

• Recognize a higher life purpose