University of Alberta

• Inflexible Work Schedules
• Lack of transportation
• Lack of Child care for younger siblings
• Language Barriers

• Lack of Public Parks
• Lack of Recreation Centers
• Proximity

• Females
• Differently-abled
• ESL
• Cultural

• Need more involvement 

• Offer training supportive of work schedules
• Leverage Existing Community Structures
• Create new pipelines of volunteer coaches

• School Yards
• After School Programs
• Recess/PE
• Existing Local Space

• Customize to local interests
• Wrap-around Services
• Fair Play for Girls
• Enact Fair Policy

• Rally key stakeholders
• 60 Minutes of play
  

"...fueling a movement of volunteer coaches to provide kids in low-income communities with the same opportunities to play sports as kids from more affluent communities. We recruit college students and community members to volunteer as coaches and train them to use a season of sports to teach kids valuable life lessons, such as persistence, empathy, teamwork, and optimism. By placing them in afterschool programs serving low-income communities, we provide a trained workforce of volunteer coaches so that these programs can use the power of sports to improve health, education, and social outcomes for kids."

• Time Management and Scheduling
  
• Financial Barriers
  
• Maintaining participation with improvement
  

• Parents "help themselves"
  
• Awareness of additional funding
  
• Additional funding resources
  

• Relationship with Coaches
• Making new friends
• Team work and social skills

• Emotional Control
• Exploration
• Confidence
• Discipline
• Academic Performance
• Weight Management
• Keep Busy

• African-American: up 22%
• Native-Americans: up 23%

• Poor and low-income teens account for 83% of teen births

• Associate girls sports with organizations, which will education girls about pregnancy prevention, gang intervention and educational achievement

• Skin Color's Influence only an Illusion
• Culture plays more important role

• Often an afterthought compared to race

Published: Beacon Press, April 9, 2013

• Michelle Obama

• Greg Zaff

• Julie Kennedy

• Ed Snider

• Walter and Evelyn Haas

• Girls on the Run
• Row New York

• Pull back public support for community-based programs
• salaries
• resources

• Do I volunteer or do we eat?
• answer never easy

• Legislation (G) (P)
• Parent Volunteer Form
• Provide proof of volunteer oppotunity
• Via tax records must prove below income threshold
• Business must allow worker to attend sporting event either as coach or spectator
• Could be paid for time out of work*
• Business receives tax credit for lost wages
• Business Policy (B) (P) (G)
• Worker provides proof of volunteer opportunity
• Business provides a bank of time to be used (i.e. vacation)
• Receives tax credit for lost production from government

• "should schools/sports be funded?" Yes
• "How should schools/sports be funded?" Difficult to answer

• Resource Education (P) (G) (E) (N) (B)
• Compile list of all available resources to low-income communities
• Communities find proper combination
• Tax credit for active children (G) (N)
• Organization provides proof of commitment
• Individual provides proof of meeting income threshold
• Gov't provides a capped tax credit per child
• Government Tax Write Off (G) (B)
• Business contributes to local sports
• Receives tax write off
• Advantage: Goes directly to local community

• Is it safe?
• Is it supervised?
• How will child get to and from location?

• Use existing public school boundaries and facilities (G) (P) (E) (N)
• Keep things as local as possible
• Keep age groups together
• Include private and parocial
• Diffuse population
• Non profits provide labor force
• Expand police force (or inolve state police) and Integrate PAL into after school programs
• Same could be done with firefighters
• Training provided by Non Profits
• Ideally: young, just out of college, grow with community

• Teachers need Certification
• Coaches need ???

• Especially behavior management

• Required training (G) (N) (P)
• Non profit can provide training
• i.e Coaching Corps
• Parents eager to do so
• especially if freed to do so by work
• Higher Education Institutions offer coaching degree programs (G) (E) (N)
• Fall under Education Department
• Many skills overlap
• Classes already being offered
• The line between teacher and coach is paper thin at most
• expectations should be similar

• Democrat: "We will continue to economically support those who society would rather see cast aside in order to give them a fair shot at life."
• Republican: "restoring the future for low-income children by ensuring they have what makes America great - the family and local community."

• Coordinate efforts and ensure enforcement
• Youth Sports Coordinator

• people always resistant to change

• Start in schools (G) (E) (P) (N)
• Learned = education
• What is learned must be changed
• Message must be
• consistent
• repeated
• inclusive
• Educate the Whole Child
• incorporate education on drugs use, sex, alcohol, college education, etc.

• Time = require maintenance
• Money = maintenance personnel, overhead bills, improvements, "where does it come from?"
• Proximity = physical layout of surrounding area is unique

• Use and maximize existing school property (G) (E) (N) (P) (B)
• More bang for tax buck
• Extra Non profit cash would improve facilities for whole student body
• Job shadow opportunities
• Use and maximize existing local public property (G) (P) (N) (B)
• More bang for tax buck
• Non profit money improves facilities for whole community
• Job shadow opportunities
• Convert abandoned buildings into useable space (G) (B) (P) (N) (B)
• Not building facility from scratch
• Maximizing available space in local community
• Tangible sign of improvement

• Duties
• Coordinate all entities responsible for providing opportunities in youth sport
• Maintain evolving list of non profits
• Attract new non profits and expand sport opportunities
• Cultivate culture of an active lifestyle
• Ensuring adequate training opportunities for volunteer coaches
• Developing and expanding safe, secure space for youth sport
• And so on...