In 2022 BYTE expanded humanitarian programming to the CA justice sector. It now offers year-round Tennis and Coach Developer initiatives at San Francisco Juvenile Hall and San Quentin State Prison. BYTE strives to be a national and international leader in Sport for Humanitarian, Sport for Public Health, and Sport for Justice.
San Quentin Tennis Academy
BYTE’s San Quentin Tennis Academy (SQTA) provides formal tennis pathways inside San Quentin State Prison. SQTA is an expansion of Inside/Outside Tennis, a long-standing community program connecting Bay Area tennis volunteers with passionate incarcerated players. Beyond giving access to the sport, BYTE also offers a Coach Apprenticeship, teaching dedicated inmates fundamentals of tennis instruction and trauma-informed community coaching.
San Francisco Juvenile Hall
BYTE offers year-round sport for healing classes to incarcerated youth at San Francisco Juvenile Hall. Activities accommodate youth serving long-term sentences and youth experiencing short-term detention. Programs use tennis and sport as a vehicle to exercise, practice social and emotional learning competencies, and learn transferrable job readiness skills. BYTE’s work is funded by the SF Dept. of Children, Youth, and their Families, in collaboration with the SF Juvenile Probation Dept. and Juvenile Justice Center.
