Scrub Scraps

Scrub Scraps mission is to promote mental health development through the sport of boxing, encourage success by providing a platform to be successful, provide a recovery base for struggling individuals, and make the sport of boxing safer, more available, and more appealing by developing a beginner’s tier. Scrub Scraps is the world’s first and only treatment based alternative boxing program.

Biography by Jared Jones:
"I was seven years old. The name of the place was Elmcrest. I had to be restrained for “mouthing off”. In a small room padded with blue gym mats no larger than the cell I would find myself in a decade later, I did my best to fight off three grown men. When I didn’t have any fight left in me they carried me to a larger room and tied me to a bed. Just like any animal would, I tugged on the restraints and clawed at them with my fingertips, but I wasn’t going to be able to free myself… Finally, exhausted, I let my body go limp, laid back, and rolled my head to the side.
Across from me, tied to a bed, silently crying and staring at me with no facial expression, was a little girl. She had urinated on herself. She could walk, talk, was capable of communicating, and I’m certain could’ve used the bathroom on her own. I was ready to snap…
I know now why what happened next inside my brain happened. Faced with extreme trauma, I had to commit myself to something else, or my brain would’ve fractured, or my personality splintered.
Instead, in my little seven-year-old brain, I thought to myself, “I have to get her out of here. This is the program? There’s gotta be a better way.”
That little girl and I stared at each other for I can only imagine how long and I promised myself that I was going to make a path for kids like me. Kids like us. I was going to build something we could understand where we didn’t have to be dealt with like animals. I promised myself I was going to get out, and I was going to go back for her. Go back for all of them…
Scrub Scraps is the program, the path, the something I promised myself I would build as a child. I can’t explain what this means to me."

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