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IMPORTANT LINKS

The following are a few of the most significant web sites that we highly recommend. We encourage you to add these to your favorites and to visit them regularly.
 

Saving Childhood Forum

http://www.savingchildhood.org 

 

 

This website is for anyone who believes children need and deserve time and space simply to be children, free from pressures and influences that await them in our success-driven, image-conscious, materialistic, technological world.

Forum topics include: Are kids being drugged into submission; Are adult expectations ruining childhood; Who needs recess; Have you smashed the TV yet; Who wants good children.

 
 

Dr. Rob Says

www.drrobsays.com

 

Dr. Robert Gotlin is the Director of Orthopaedic and Sports Rehabilitation in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Coordinator of the Musculoskeletal and Sports Rehabilitation Fellowship training program in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center . He is an assistant professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. 
 
 
 

The Positive Coaching Alliance – PCA

www.positivecoach.org


  Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) believes the realm of youth athletics presents a tremendous opportunity for athletes to develop life skills that will serve them well beyond the playing field. Providing a positive and favorable playing environment should be the goal of every youth sports organization leader, coach, and parent.

This PCA website will give you an overview of the tools available for coaches, parents, league organizers, and others who want to take part in this movement.

 

 

National Alliance For Youth Sports – NAYS

www.nays.org/coaches/index.cfm


  The National Alliance For Youth Sports aka The National Youth Sports Coaches Association provides training, support, and continuing education to adults who volunteer to coach out-of-school youth sports teams. Around 1.3 million individuals have attended NYSCA clinics becoming NYSCA certified coaches since the program began in 1981.

The NYSCA program works to "sensitize" coaches to their responsibilities when working with children in sports and hold them accountable to a Coaches Code of Ethics.

 
 

The Michigan State Institute For The Study of Youth Sports

ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/ysi/

 

 

The Institute for the Study of Youth Sports (ISYS) at Michigan State University was founded by the Michigan Legislature in 1978 to research the benefits and detriments of participation in youth sports; to produce educational materials for parents, coaches, officials, and administrators, and; to provide educational programs for coaches, officials, administrators, and parents.

 
 

The Mendleson Center For Sport, Character and Culture at Notre Dame University

www.nd.edu/~cscc/
 

The Center endeavors to bring together the best scholarship of social scientists, the seasoned wisdom of concerned sport practitioners, and the cultural influence of policy-makers, media professionals, and accomplished athletes and coaches in order to direct sport toward its full potential to enhance human life and promote positive character.

 
 

The Center For Media and The Family

www.mediafamily.org
 

Dr. Dave Walsh, Ph.D. is the founder and director. Committed to the belief that parents, teachers, health care professionals, corporations, advertisers and media must address media use as a public health priority, the National Institute on Media and the Family is dedicated to promoting the positive use of media in building healthy families and healthy communities.

 
 

Coaching Association of Canada

www.coach.ca/e/index.htm
 

We could only wish we had an organization like this in the USA! CAC, recognized as a world leader in the development of coach education and training, is committed to serving the needs of Canada's coaches and to strengthening Canada's sport system. A dedicated professional staff of 22 delivers CAC programs and services, and policies are developed and overseen by a board of directors drawn from both the public and private sectors of the sport community.

The association, a not-for-profit amateur sport organization, was created in 1970 as a result of a recommendation put forth by the Task Force on Sport for Canadians. CAC policies and programs reflect the strategic directions of its primary funding agency, Sport Canada, a branch of the Canadian Identity Sector within the Department of Canadian Heritage. The mandate of CAC is to improve the effectiveness of coaching across all sports and at all levels of the sport system.
 

Parent's Pal

http://www.performanceconsultingltd.com/parent_pal.html
  Parent’s Pal offers personal coaching for parents of competitive prep athletes. You work with an expert in youth sport and child development to help your child make the most of his or her sports experience.

 
 

The National Institute For Sports Reform

http://www.nisr.org/index.html
 

An organization that is devoted to studying, advocating, and implementing needed sports reform at the pre-professional level. The Institute will sponsor a conference in the fall of 2003 and publish a Journal and newsletter. Dr. Bruce Svare is the Founder and Director.

 

 

The Kindness Counts Foundation

www.Kindness-counts.org

  
 

Founded by Mike Shapiro in Verona, New Jersey, the foundation is a resource for organizations wishing to promote good sportsmanship. They seek to help adults help kids in youth sports and in life by promoting positive behavior that helps children have fun and feel good about themselves.

 

  
 

Bob Bigelow

www.bob-bigelow.com

 

 

 
  Bob Bigelow is an advocate for improving youth sports. His career revolves around providing critical ways that parents, coaches and administrators can improve the youth sports experience for our kids. Bob is the author of "Just Let The Kids Play," and a good friend of The Center For Kids FIRST.

 

  
 

 Dr. Raymond Petras, Ph.D. 

www.reliefforyou.com

Dr. Petras is a Diplomate, credentialed in Pain Management (AAPM). He is a consultant in performance enhancement and pain management, an educator and international speaker. He presently splits his practice between Minnesota and Arizona.

  
 
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