June 10, 2026 — WE TEE IT UP FOR KIDS
The Tee It Up For Kids Golf Classic addresses the complete breakdown of work capacity in American youth—a crisis costing regional employers $57.6-$345 million annually in failed hires, chronic turnover, and productivity loss.
We support Child Advocacy Centers like Child Enrichment, which provide trauma-focused counseling, CASA advocacy, and family support to abused and neglected children. While these organizations focus on helping kids who desperately need it, research shows unaddressed Adverse Childhood Experiences are one of multiple factors systematically destroying the psychological infrastructure required to hold and perform a job.
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Tee It Up For Kids • Community Impact
What Child Enrichment Does
For 47 years, Child Enrichment has provided comprehensive services to abused and neglected children across the 9-county CSRA region. Each year, they serve approximately 824 children in substantiated abuse cases through two primary programs.
Child Advocacy Center (CAC)
- Forensic interviewing to prevent re-traumatization
- Trauma-focused counseling for abuse victims
- Court testimony and advocacy
- Support for 486 non-offending caregivers
- 100% of services provided free of charge
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
- Trained volunteer advocates for 383 children in foster care
- Ensuring safe, permanent placement
- Coordinating educational and medical needs
- Average 18 months to permanency
The Workforce Connection
Child Enrichment focuses on helping traumatized children heal. That’s their mission, and they’re exceptionally good at it.
Research into the American workforce crisis reveals an important connection: Adverse Childhood Experiences are one of multiple factors that contribute to psychological immaturity and work capacity erosion in young adults.
What is Work Capacity?
Work capacity is the psychological infrastructure required to hold and perform a job:
- Interruption resistance
- Sustained effort capacity
- Frustration tolerance
- Momentum experience
- Consequence integration
- Self-correction capacity
What Damages Work Capacity in Modern Youth?
- Unaddressed ACEs (trauma, abuse, neglect)
- Institutional enabling (schools/parents removing consequences)
- Poverty-related instability
- Unidentified neurodiversity
- Digital distraction culture
- Systematic effort avoidance
What the Data Correlates with ACEs
- 36–41% higher high school dropout rate
- 6–8% lower full-time employment likelihood
- 13–19% lower lifetime earnings
- 50% more workplace absenteeism
- 85% chronic unemployment rate without intervention
Why Early Intervention Matters
While Child Enrichment helps children heal from trauma—which is the right thing to do regardless—there’s an additional benefit: by addressing ACEs during the critical developmental window (ages 8–18), we’re preventing one contributor to the work capacity crisis affecting regional employers.
Sponsor ROI • Workforce Impact
Why Corporate Sponsors Should Care
Employers are already paying for the downstream consequences of childhood trauma and instability—through turnover, absenteeism, failed hires, and diminished productivity. Sponsorship is a strategic upstream intervention.
Four-Column Stats (Sponsor Snapshot)
Child Enrichment’s Reach
- 824 children annually in substantiated abuse cases
- 486 non-offending caregivers supported
- 383 children receiving CASA advocacy
- 47 years of proven service
The Work Capacity Crisis
- 3,500 youth annually enter the CSRA workforce lacking work capacity
- 85% chronic unemployment rate without intervention
- $57.6–$345M annual cost to regional employers
Intervention Outcomes
- 60% reduction in chronic unemployment
- 300–400% improvement in sustained employment
- 50–60% reduction in workplace absenteeism
Sponsor ROI
- $10,000 investment serves 12–15 children
- 8–10 avoid chronic unemployment trajectory
- $11.2–$28M lifetime economic contribution
- ROI: 1,120:1 to 2,800:1
The Employer Perspective
Regional employers face a hiring crisis. In the CSRA, thousands of young adults lack basic work capacity—unable to sustain effort, tolerate frustration, resist interruption, or self-correct.
This isn’t about finding better candidates. It’s about the fact that work capacity is systematically destroyed in childhood by multiple factors— and ACEs are one significant contributor.
What This Costs Employers Right Now
- Average cost per hire: $4,700
- Failed hire (lacking work capacity): $16,450–$98,700
- Regional cost: $57.6–$345M annually in turnover and productivity loss
Employers are already spending this money—just inefficiently—trying to manage the consequences of unaddressed childhood issues in 25-year-old employees.
The Alternative (Upstream Fix)
Support Child Enrichment’s trauma intervention while children are still in the critical developmental window. Help kids who desperately need it. As a side benefit, prevent one pathway to the work capacity destruction that creates unemployable adults.
The Origin
Tee It Up For Kids was born out of lived experience, not theory.
Its roots trace back to the early life and professional journey of Michael R. Frazier, founder of Peak. Raised amid physical abuse and neglect, he learned early that circumstance does not dictate outcome — but it does shape the odds. From that reality came a singular focus: build something better, become something stronger, and refuse to let the past define the future.
Ambition, discipline, and a relentless action mindset drove him to develop beyond his environment and into a career centered on human potential and performance. That path led to entrepreneurship — not as an end goal, but as a means to create durable, real-world solutions for the issue that mattered most: children.
Across decades working in human capital optimization, Mike has stood on the front lines of the workforce — witnessing firsthand how poor home environments, abuse, neglect, and the absence of foundational behavioral development follow children into adolescence and adulthood. He has seen how these early conditions quietly erode confidence, resilience, effort capacity, and the ability to transition from school to work or advance in life.
Tee It Up For Kids emerged from a simple conviction: if we can intervene earlier — before damage becomes destiny — we can change outcomes. Failure is not an option.