Protective confidence
Children and adolescents rehearse composure, boundaries, steadier choices, and help-seeking in a structured setting.
About Us
A prevention-first nonprofit ready for institutional partnership
Whole Champions Jiu-Jitsu is a Texas nonprofit corporation serving schools, nonprofits, faith-based institutions, and community partners through the 1911 Method.
Institutional partnership
The program partners with schools, nonprofits, after-school programs, community partners, and faith-based institutions.
Whole-person formation
Movement, discipline, leadership, family engagement, and safeguarding work together instead of living in separate silos.
Our purpose
Prevention that young people can rehearse, retain, and carry into real life
Risk for children and adolescents rarely arrives as one isolated problem. Emotional distress, peer pressure, unsafe influence, digital exposure, violence, and fragile self-concept often overlap around the same developmental needs: stronger boundaries, steadier decisions, better regulation, and trusted paths to help.
Whole Champions exists to provide a controlled institutional pathway for strengthening those protective capacities early, inside the schools, organizations, religious institutions, and community settings where families already look for support.
What guides us
Skill and character belong together
- Respect for self, peers, instructors, and boundaries
- Discipline, composure, and follow-through under structure
- Courage without recklessness
- Help-seeking integrity and trust in safe adults
- Humility, coachability, and pro-social peer conduct
- Protective leadership that reinforces safety, not dominance
Founder and method architect
Led by Andre Moraes
Andre Moraes is the Founder and Method Architect of the 1911 Method and serves as the lead implementation authority for Whole Champions Jiu-Jitsu. His background brings together formal Physical Education training in Brazil, child and family development formation, youth mentorship, safeguarding training, and structured Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practice.
Andre has been accepted to pursue graduate study in Psychology through Dallas Baptist University's Master of Arts in Psychology program, further extending his preparation in human behavior, development, and mental-health-informed support. This academic step complements the non-clinical, prevention-first scope of the 1911 Method.
Andre is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and method architect. Delivery follows a founder-led model that forms trained cohort instructors, cohort-support personnel, and future Certified 1911 Institutional Instructors formed under Whole Champions standards. Black-belt technical supervision remains reserved for advanced calibration, Gi progression, competition-facing activity, and formal sport-rank functions.
Movement science and pedagogy
Formal Physical Education training in Brazil, including teacher licensure, supports age-appropriate instruction, motor learning, biomechanics, and safe progression.
Child, adolescent, and family formation
Children and Family ministry training in the United States added practical grounding in next-generation development, family systems, teaching dynamics, and program delivery.
Safeguarded leadership
Targeted training in child protection, mandatory reporting, child and adolescent mental health first aid, and social-emotional learning strengthens the program's prevention-first boundaries.
Safety and accountability
Built for trust inside child- and adolescent-serving environments
The organization uses clear scope boundaries, safeguarded delivery standards, instructor controls, and documented review pathways so controlled implementation remains practical and accountable.
- Small-cohort delivery with active adult visibility and supervision expectations
- Role-based instructor screening, supervised formation, calibration, and quality review
- Non-clinical measurement focused on observable protective progression
- Clear scope boundaries: prevention training, not therapy, investigation, or law enforcement
- Documented consent, incident response, escalation, and reporting pathways
Bring Whole Champions to your organization
For teams ready to invest upstream in children, adolescents, families, and the communities around them.