COMMUNITY PARTNERS Embrace coach trainings to meet permit standards The good news for Oakland is there’s a consistent pipeline of community sports providers that are committed to training coaches in youth development. Oakland Strokes, ACE Kids Golf, Oakland Girls Softball, Soccer Without Borders, America SCORES, Oakland Lacrosse Club, and many more have demonstrated capabilities to be part of this pipeline. Now consistent trainings need to be embraced by more people interested in becoming coaches. Volunteering time isn’t always doable for many adults – and trainings add one more layer. But they’re needed to have more Oakland youth enjoy safe and positive experiences in sports. Positive Coaching Alliance is positioning itself to help train more coaches, including high school students to become recreational coaches. The coaching pipeline is strategically growing. Creating more diverse sports offerings through schools won’t be easy. We recognize schools are overburdened with requirements in providing a quality education to students. Given Oakland’s commitment to the community school model, we have found there is a shared understanding of the benefits of sport and physical activity in support of student-level and community-level outcomes. Progress will be achievable through collaboration. All parties need to come to the table with the goal of working together, so more children can enjoy the benefits they tell us they want from more sports.
5 National Resources to Help Sport Sampling
NHL Street: This new NHL program aims to build a new era in street hockey that is fun, relevant, and designed to get more kids playing. NHL Street is especially interested in entering urban and rural communities outside of NHL markets while increasing female participation in the sport. School Tennis: The U.S. Tennis Association offers free access to turnkey curriculum, lesson plans and equipment to bring tennis into schools. Realizing that schools need more support than simply equipment that may go unused, the USTA changed tactics and now offers a relationship to a local tennis partner. This allows the local USTA section and school to determine what they need. Jr. NBA Basketball Curricula: Jr. NBA teamed up with SHAPE America to create free curricula for grades K to 2, 3 to 5 and 6 to 8. There are more than 50 activities that engage students and reflect best practice in instruction. The written and video resources offer sequential lessons leading to mature patterns of motor performance for youth. 2-4-1 Sports: This sport-sampling program focuses on fostering physical literacy and social- emotional development. 2-4-1 Sports helps build confidence in young athletes to learn the rules of different sports and be creative with equipment and space so they can organize themselves into games. 2-4-1 Sports assists with summer camps, before- and after-school programs, weekend camps and clinics, coach training, physical literacy curriculum and implementation, and program evaluation and consulting. Every Kid Sports: This organization pays registration fees directly to income-restricted families to play sports. Families can apply to cover costs for recreational and school sports. Travel sports costs are not permitted. Every Kid Sports was recognized as a Project Play Champion.
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