Sentences with phrase «how youth sports programs»

«For far too long, the national media has focused on reporting on how youth sports programs fall short in protecting the health and safety of youth athletes.

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Lots of youth sports programs say they want to improve safety, but how many are actually making the effort to implement best health and safety practices?

It could be described as a «How we do business, here» attitude, one deeply rooted in the leaders» values and beliefs about what is important to run a successful youth sports program.

The day - long event will take a holistic approach to youth sports safety which addresses not just a child's physical safety, but emotional, psychological and sexual safety as well, and will show how, by following best practices, youth sports programs can stem the rising tide of injuries that have become an all - too - common and unfortunate by - product of today's hyper - competitive, overspecialized, and over-commercialized youth sports environment.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

During the sport - specific portion of the NYSCA training program football coaches view the Coaching Youth Football training video, which focuses on how to go about teaching many of the key fundamentals of the game to youngsters.

This program enforces Camp Lejeune's philosophies by teaching coaches how to create a fun and safe youth sports environment through topics like keeping players active at practice, building confidence, the role of winning in youth sports and working with parents.

The program is designed specifically for VOLUNTEER youth sports administrators and the more we thought about how to get the word out about the new program, the more we realized how badly the youth sports world needs this program!

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomSports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

During this year's Youth Sports Congress, set for Nov. 18 - 21 in New Orleans, attendees will get the chance to hear from Certified Youth Sports Administrators about the good, the bad and the truly horrific that have occurred in their programs, and how they handled those situations.

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Awareness campaigns like that of STOP Sports Injuries and the CDC's Heads Up program are doing great work to educate the parents and coaches involved in youth sports about how to prevent and identify injSports Injuries and the CDC's Heads Up program are doing great work to educate the parents and coaches involved in youth sports about how to prevent and identify injsports about how to prevent and identify injuries.

Since then, the Standards have served as the blueprint for how thousands of recreation professionals have conducted their youth sports programs through the years.

Then Final Round programs are judged on several criteria, including what the organization does to educate their administrators, volunteer coaches, game officials and parents, in addition to how well they demonstrate that they embrace a child - centered recreational sports philosophy that is aimed at providing a positive and safe experience for all youth.

Since that historic gathering, the Standards have served as the premier resource for how thousands of recreation professionals have conducted their youth sports programs to best meet the needs of all their participants.

Further, discussion included the implications of the Safety in Youth Sports Act (PA's concussion law) and its future needs, provide information in regards to concussion education programs available to the public, as well as describe who are the appropriate medical professionals trained in evaluation and management of concussions and how you can recognize them.

My dissertation project explores how Brazilian education policy - makers and corporate actors have framed youth free time as a «gateway drug,» and how keeping youth busy through various interventions — vocational training, after - school arts and sports, test prep and professionalizing programming — has become a widespread form of risk prevention and subject formation.