Boxing is the hook. The way out is everything wrapped around it: education, employability, support services, and youth leadership — run from a real fight club, by people who've been where these kids are.
House of Brass runs on a simple truth: the gym is the hook — everything else is the way out. Boxing gets a kid in the door on a Tuesday night. Then education, employability, real support, and leadership do the deep work. Homework before jabs, structure before sparring, belonging before everything.
Discipline, self-control, and a place to belong. Fitness, technique, and pad-work — the reason youth show up on a Tuesday night.
Homework and reading come before any gloves go on. Support for young people inside and outside formal learning.
Job-readiness, vocational referrals, and first-job connections through our business network.
Mentoring, casework, and referrals — social, medical, legal. Where recovery and trauma-informed care live inside the program.
Graduates come back as peer-mentors and role models. The program's proof is who it produces.
We launch non-contact — fitness, technique, pad-work. Supervised sparring comes later, under strict pairing rules, and only when every box below is checked.
Boxing Ontario / Boxing Canada certification, current first-aid & CPR, and Safe Sport ("Respect in Sport") training for every coach.
Every coach, mentor, director, and volunteer with youth access clears a Level 3 VSC through Durham Regional Police — on file, renewed, no exceptions.
Specialist sports coverage including participant accident and abuse-prevention endorsements — secured before the first youth session, not after.
Signed waivers, health-history intake, equipment inspections, concussion protocol, and incident reporting. Paperwork is protection.
We build the referral spine with Durham's school boards, youth-justice and police diversion programs, Lakeridge Health / Pinewood Centre for clinical support, and community organizations across the region. If you work with a young person who needs this — talk to us.