Sentences with phrase «make youth sports»

Dr. Hunt Batjer, a Northwestern Memorial Hospital neurosurgeon, said the goal of the measure «is not to eliminate sports, but rather to make youth sports safer.»

de Lench: When I founded momsTEAM back in August 2000, our mission was to make youth sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive.

NAYS Parent Orientation has set a standard for parent orientation programs by providing a video - based training which offers a simple, effective way to make youth sports parents aware of their roles and responsibilities, as well as ways they can make their child's experience more enjoyable and positive.

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From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

Every year, sponsors offer their support and services to help make the Youth Sports Congress possible.

«It truly is inspiring to see all the incredible work being done worldwide to help make youth sports the best they can be for children,» said John Engh, executive director of NAYS.

The National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) strives to make youth sports as fun, safe and positive as can be by aligning with organizations or corporations who share its philosophy.

I am attending in a unique and dual capacity, both as a member of the Youth Sports Safety Alliance (www.youthsportssafetyalliance.org)- an alliance of 60 organizations, like MomsTeam, committed to education, research and legislation to make youth sports safer, which is partnering with the NATA to put on the summit - and as a member of the media reporting on the event.

An educational program offering a simple, effective way to orient parents of their roles and responsibilities and ways they can make the youth sports experience more enjoyable and positive.

Has your community used the Power of the Permit to make youth sports safer in your community?

«The purpose of this event is to demonstrate to parents, coaches, administrators, and health care professionals that there are steps we can take now to make youth sports safer,» said Brooke de Lench, Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute and producer of The Smartest Team documentary.

An essential part of the MomsTeam mission is to make youth sports as inclusive as possible.

In a wide - ranging speech (see video below), Commissioner Goodell indicated that the NFL «stand [s] ready» to «share any of our research with any other league,» and expressed the belief that «we should all be working to make youth sports safer.»

Women, particularly the mothers who volunteer, are often the backbone of what makes a youth sports team work smoothly.

The irony is that it is parents, coaches, and the players who not only share the blame for making youth sports less safe but hold the key to making sports safer and preventing so many needless injuries.

As with legislation at every level of government, successful utilization of the power of the permit depends not so much on concerned citizens committed to making youth sports in their local community safer (although they are, of course, important) as on the willingness of governmental officials themselves to sponsor bylaw changes and push for enactment, in other words, to serve as «safety champions.»

PAYS has set a standard for parent orientation programs by providing a video - based training from NAYS (National Alliance Youth Sports) which offers a simple, effective way to make youth sport parents aware of their roles and responsibilities.

Since the parent has made the youth sports experience about themselves and have ignored their child's needs, they take the actions of the coach or official as personal jabs.

Not a week goes by without an introduction to some new money - making youth sports - related product or service being touted as a «must have» in order to be the next champion this, pro that.

«Making Youth Sports a Public Health Solution» (SM)

Readers gain a unique perspective on Engh's tireless dedication for making youth sports the best they can be for all children, and will be reinvigorated to pursue their own dreams as well.

Social media has made youth sports accessible to almost everyone and the benefits of youth sport participation in a healthy scenario tremendously outweigh the detriments.

Not exact matches

This includes the splitting of pension income for seniors, (to make amends for breaking its promise on the taxation of family trusts); special tax preferences to support participation of youth in sports activities, arts and cultural activities; tax breaks for people who take public transit; and, tax breaks to help volunteer firemen.

We are our Boys and Girls Clubs, our rotary clubs, our senior centers, our youth sports leagues, made up of volunteers, Americans; altruistic people investing time into our greatest asset, our children.

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«Youth sports are a ready - made resource pool for pedophiles, and we better all get our heads out of the sand before we ruin the games,» says Bob Bastarache, a police officer turned private investigator and the current president of one of New England's largest AAU clubs, the Bristol Stars, of New Bedford, Mass. «Parents today are so busy, they're allowing coaches to take over the after - school hours, and that's the foot in the door pedophiles need.»

To staff writer Melissa Segura, soccer in the U.S. had always been the sport of the suburban upper crust, with its pricey youth travel teams, shiny Umbros and halftime orange slices cut by mothers who didn't have to work to make ends meet (or by their help).

Over that time US Lacrosse — which makes rules and policies for most levels of the game, helps develop the game at its grassroots and sanctions youth tournaments, the high school national championships and the college club championships — has increased what it spends to promote the sport from $ 1.1 million to $ 9 million.

While the mission of Sac LAX is to develop players, supportive teammates and honorable opponents, Sac LAX's other purpose is simple; provide an opportunity for kids to play and enjoy the game of lacrosse, to empower youth and give them a sport in which to express themselves, have fun, make friends and stay healthy.

I also have to congratulate (sporting director Massimiliano) Mirabelli, who pushed me to make this choice,» said Fassone of the decision to appoint the former AC Milan youth coach last November.

Speaking on Sky Sports» Soccer AM this weekend, Mason admitted that a return to Tottenham would make sense after having spent 18 years, starting from the youth academy with the club, he said: «I'm going to see what I fall into but if I was to go down the coaching route I spent 18 years at Tottenham and that's my club so I'm sure that would be in my DNA if I was a coach.»

Together, we can go a long way towards making sure youth athletes are properly hydrated and to eliminating heat illnesses in youth sports.

In 2012, in recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

(As I have learned from long experience with youth and high school sports programs, making attendance at a concussion safety meeting voluntary virtually guarantees a lot of no - shows.)

The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a leader in educating sports parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

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?

That's because Sony Pictures chose the Institute as its partner in its Dance or Donate #ForThePlayers social media campaign; an initiative designed not just to publicize the movie but to promote our 15 - year effort to make youth football and all sports safer (which is why the Institute is hosting the Boston screening)

Stopping by to pick up a book, I look around the quiet office, I close my eyes and reflect on the biggest youth and high school sports stories of the year and wonder if we as a nation are any closer to our MomsTEAM mission of making sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive or if we continue to spin wildly out of control in the crazy vortex that is youth sports in the 21st century.

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and author of: Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (Harper Collins) is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

Debbie Lantz is a veteran single sports mom with a passion for empowering women to make a difference in youth sports.

She has made appearances on all the major television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox), as well as «The Today Show,» the «CBS Morning Show,» and three documentaries on youth sports, which aired on ESPN, HBO and A&E respectively.

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher of MomsTeam.com, blogger and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and the Producer / Director / Creator of the new PBS concussion documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

Many youth sports teams are unable to travel to national tournaments because of the price increases, which make it more difficult for the teenagers to be seen by potential college coaches.»

But «it appears that youth sports practices are making a less - than - optimal contribution to the public health goals of increasing physical activity and preventing childhood obesity.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parYouth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paSports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paryouth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paryouth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paryouth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

Two years ago, in recognition of April as Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

When I look back on this summer I will see in my mind's eye the faces of the hundreds if not thousands of youth and high school football moms and dads who I have been working with, not just from Oklahoma but in just about every state in the nation, to make the sport safer.