Recreation Programs
Join in the STOP Sports Injuries movement and become an official participating sports and recreation organization by downloading a brief agreement and filling out the form below. This form signifies that your organization meets the designated criteria and that your organization will promote the activities to help address sports trauma and overuse prevention.
There are four categories of involvement for sports organizations, including:
- National Governing Bodies – An organization responsible for overseeing and coordinating a sport on a national level.
- Sports Leagues – A federation of sports teams, generally affiliated with an NGB in that sport. Sports Leagues can be national, regional, professional, scholastic or amateur.
- Sports Teams – Amateur, scholastic, recreational or professional teams participating in a sports league.
- Recreation Programs – National and community recreation and fitness programs that sponsor events, camps or other activities that are formally affiliated with an incorporated entity.
The outlined/downloadable participation agreement provides a basic foundation upon which sports and recreation organizations can promote athletic safety as part of their activities. Review the starter list of involvement activities and ideas and then develop additional ways to promote injury prevention as a part of youth sports.
Become an official supporter of STOP Sports Injuries today!
View or download the STOP Sports Injuries participation agreement to get started.
Fill out the STOP Sports Injuries official supporter form to get involved.
Recreation Programs
Click on the links below for more information on the recreation programs that have joined our team to become advocates for sports safety:
The Association of Independent Camps
The Association of Independent Camps (AIC) represents children's summer camps across the United States and around the world. Our backgrounds, programs, activities and philosophies vary as widely as our locations. But AIC's simple mission binds us all together - to help camps help kids.
We know from personal experience that summer camp is good for children, and AIC supports the camp directors, staff, parents and campers who benefit from the summer camp experience each year.
Coach Deck
The OnDeck Newsletter was created by CoachDeck to be a constant source of education and information for all CoachDeck leagues, players and parents. Keeping everyone in the game, on and off the field. CoachDeck cards were created to assist the millions of hard-working youth sports volunteers and parents who would like to help players learn important skills and fundamentals though fun drills and games. The time commitment involved in coaching is enormous, and sometimes it is not possible to thoroughly prepare for each practice. Designed by professional coaches, the drills in CoachDeck can be performed by players from 6-16 and are laid out in a fast, easy-to-understand format that allows you to conduct an extremely effective clinic with little or no preparation. Because the Deck is portable, you'll always have it with you. The nearly infinite number of drill combinations you can create means kids will never get tired of the "same old practice".
Inside each deck you will find 52 color-coded drills. Nearly every drill contains a unique, "Make it a Game" feature that will ensure your players want practice to go on forever. Each Deck also contains two double-sided instructional cards on Safety, Terminology, Practice and How to Use CoachDeck. We're sure that once you use CoachDeck you'll wonder how you ever did with out it and, you'll agree, that A Perfect Practice is in the Cards, with CoachDeck.
LVSportz - Las Vegas Youth Sports & Community Sports
LVSportz is a local youth sports and community sports website that provides information on youth sports news, leagues, and events. We have currently undertaken a new project that branches off of the LVSportz concept called the LVSportz Foundation. The focus of this foundation is to bring some much needed change to our local sports community. Two of these changes are our Youth Coach Certification Program and our Sports Safety Awareness Programs.
The Youth Coach Certification program ensure that our local coaches take the necessary steps to ensure the safety and well being of our local youth athletes. Incorporated into this certification will be the National Alliance for Youth Sports Youth Sports Coach program, CPR/First Aid/Sports Safety from the American Red Cross, local laws, and more.
The Sports Safety Awareness Program will help parents, players, and coaches recognize and prevent devastating sports injuries through proper recognition and education via some type of clinics held throughout the valley.
Shtickit.com
Shtickit.com is an online guide to sports, activities, camps and competitions for people of all ages. We provide a host of resources for visitors, including:
- Sports and activity organization and business listings
- Camps/instruction and competition/tournament listings
- Sports and activity based articles written by coaches and leaders in the industry
- An event calendar full of events across the USA and Canada
- Free classified ads to buy and sell used sports and activity equipment
- Monthly newsletters and contests to promote our site and our listed businesses
The Training Room
Our goal at The Training Room is to provide comprehensive sports and orthopaedic physical therapy with the highest level of personalized care for active people of all ages. We strive to help you return safely to full activity as quickly as possible. Also our goal is to educate you about your injury so you can reduce your risk and prevent any recurrences.
At The Training Room, keeping you moving is our first priority. Whether you are an elite high school athlete, avid tennis player, or someone who enjoys working in your garden, our motivating and caring staff will guide you through your recovery process, we'll keep you moving in the activity that simply relaxes, energizes, or drives you.
Phase 1 Basketball
The PHASE 1 TRAINING SYSTEM is an innovative player development system which uniquely addresses quality of movement "KATAS" as it relates to both injury prevention, and skill development. The combination of Sports Science and Basketball Skills Training in this revolutionary system can be utilized by both coaches and players to maximize their potential. The PHASE 1 TRAINING SYSTEM will provides members with all-encompassing virtual internet support and resources through the ground breaking XPS Trainer Software.
Pro Pitch, LLC
ProPitch, LLC was founded with the vision to fundamentally change the way youth and amateur pitchers are trained and developed. Our ultimate goal is to prevent arm injuries in youth pitchers. ProPitch, LLC has partnered with 3P Sports, the most effective online pitching training program available for amateur pitchers, to offer a Total Performance Throwing Analysis™. It includes five integrated components designed to improve performance and reduce injuries: Biomechanical Video Analysis; Complete Orthopedic Sports Physical Therapy Evaluation; Pitcher-Specific Strength Training; MLB-Based Pitching Drills; and Performance Behavior Coaching.
National Sports Recruiter
National Sports Recruiter is a powerful resource intended to assist young student athletes increase their opportunities to acquire a college scholarship. NSR provides recruitment promotion services and recruitment counseling to aspiring college athletes. We can assist a gifted student athlete to be discovered and recruited by Division 1, 2, 3 and NAIA schools.
Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh (JCC)
The JCC is one of the largest social service, recreational, and educational organizations of its type in the region, annually serving more than 25,000 individuals of all races, religions, and socio-economic means whose ages range from six weeks to over 100 years old.
Now in its 115th year, the JCC fosters the same growth and advancement of its members and visitors as it did more than a century ago, addressing the needs of vulnerable populations who depend on the Center for service: the young, the elderly, and people with special needs. JCC activities are designed to meet the dynamic needs of a diverse community with a multitude of needs. Comprehensive programming includes day care and preschool in the Early Childhood Development Center, after-school programs, day and overnight camping, adult activities, fitness and wellness programs for all ages, special needs services, arts and culture activities, including a nationally accredited Jewish museum, and scores of community-wide programs. The JCC currently associates with over 140 community organizations through program partnerships and collaborations and is a founding member of the United Way and the United Jewish Federation.
AthleticTrainer4Hire
Athletictrainer4hire is a website based service dedicated to sporting event coordinators looking for qualified and certified athletic trainers to provide medical coverage at their sporting events or camps. Athletic trainers are nationally certified by the Board of Certification for Athletic Trainers and licensed or registered members of the respective states Department of Health.
Athletictrainer4hire wants to make locating qualified athletic trainer easy for event coordinators. In today's sporting world, we hear of unfortunate accidents and emergencies all the time. Certified athletic trainers are qualified professionals who are trained to handle all sports related injuries and emergencies no matter the sport, competition level or age of the athlete. The athletic trainers on http://www.athletictrainer4hire.com are all nationally certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification (NATABOC) and hold CPR & AED training certifications.
Athletic trainers and event coordinators are very valuable to the youth sporting events and camps of today. It's, without a doubt, an important relationship that must be developed for the safety of today's youth sporting leagues and associations. Athletictrainer4hire wants to prove a better and safer environment for today's youths participating in sporting events and camps. For more information on how to become a member of this nationwide network of certified athletic trainers, contact Keith Abrams or visit us at: www.athletictrainer4hire.com.
About Athletictrainer4hire.com:
Athletictrainer4hire was developed by Certified Athletic Trainer Keith Abrams. Keith has been an athletic trainer for 15 years and holds national certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certifications. His resume includes working at such levels as high school, college and at the professional level in Major League Baseball and the National Football League.
Contact:
Keith Abrams
Athletictrainer4hire.com
(813) 919-7983 (Florida)
Or find us on the web at: www.athletictrainer4hire.com
Healing Exercise
Our company has two main branches.
We teach the special exercise known as "the internal martial arts;" you might know Tai Chi, but not BaGuaZhang and XingYi Chuan. We understand this type of exercise to be more beneficial, safer, and certainly more sustainable than the strength and fitness exercises like lifting weights and running. Clearly, our exercise is gentler and more suitable for injured athletes. Our crowning achievement was teaching the U.S. Men's Alpine Ski Team in the summer of 2004. Ted Ligety was the best student in the group and has gone on to an illustrious athletic career including winning a gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. We have trained a number of other athletes who have similar success stories.
We have developed a series of five DVDs which encompass the entire range of human physicality, from the most feeble of the elderly to top-echelon athletes. These DVDs can be viewed on our website: http://www.HealingExercise.org.
Planet Athlete
We are a nonprofit organization that hosts national level high school and prep school tournaments and showcases throughout the USA. We founded the National Post Grad Athletic Conference.
Becoming a True Champion
Becoming a True Champion is a website dedicated and designed to help inspire and motivate athletes to seek out their athletic as well as their inner potential. Its major focus centers on making a difference in the loss of perspective and "winning at all costs" attitudes so prevalent at many levels of sports and youth sports today, to provide a better understanding on how true athletic success is attained (or success in anything for that matter), to help give athletes, parents, and coaches the tools needed for that success, and to demonstrate the life application and intrinsic value that is attainable through healthy sports experiences.
Becoming a True Champion accomplishes these worthwhile goals through literary works at Kirk Mango's Tribune Chicagonow blog "The Athletes Sports Experience: Making a Difference," www.chicagonow.com/the-athletes-sports-experience-making-a-difference, and through his forthcoming book "Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence From the Inside Out" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), www.becomingatruechampion.com.
For more information regarding Becoming a True Champion, please feel free to peruse the links above or email Kirk at BATC@becomingatruechampion.com.
Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference
The Baseball Resource
At the Baseball Resource, we:
- Provide Athletic-Development & Injury-Prevention Programs that allow amateur baseball players to avoid injury and safely improve baseball-performance.
- Create Baseball Community-Directory dedicated to connecting amateur baseball parents, coaches, and players with college baseball programs, professional scouts, and companies that can assist them.
- Provide the information and resources necessary for obtaining College Baseball Scholarships and understanding Professional Baseball Scouting.
- Provide education on the dangers inherent with the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs.
CrossFit Kids
Since Late 2004 CrossFit Kids has been forging the Future of Fitness and is currently in hundreds of gyms in North America, Australia, Europe, Africa, India, Japan and Panama. CrossFit Kids is a strength and conditioning program that is specifically designed for kids and teenagers and helps them develop a lifelong love of fitness. In a group setting, children and teens participate in fun and engaging workouts that deliver measurable results and prepare them to be well- rounded athletes. With a network of over 2000 CrossFit Kids Trainers, CrossFit Kids is being implemented in preschools to high schools with before-and-after school programs and integration into Physical Education curriculum. CrossFitKids.com contains thousands of archived workouts, video demonstrations and informative articles that provide interested parents or teachers with a foundation for understanding how the CrossFit Kids program can be implemented at home or at school.
CrossFit Kids workouts consist of constantly varied, functional movements that deliver a fitness that is broad, inclusive and general and scalable for any participant at any level. What does this mean? This means that, for the most part, no two workouts are the same, so kids and teens never get bored and the novelty of each workout keeps them excited about participating. The functional movements involve exercises that are fundamental to all things that kids need to do when they play-pull, push, run, throw, climb, lift and jump. All of the movements are taught safely and effectively under the close supervision of thoroughly trained CrossFit Kids Trainers. When fitness is defined as broad, inclusive and general it means that participants will become well-rounded athletes who will be better at any and every sport that they play because CrossFit Kids doesn't coach them to be good at just one thing. Our workouts will increase physical competence in 10 fitness domains: Cardiovascular and Respiratory Endurance, Stamina, Strength, Flexibility, Power, Speed, Coordination, Agility, Balance, and Accuracy.
Simon Kenton High School Sports Medicine Department
Simon Kenton High School Sports Medicine Department is dedicated each day to the prevention, recognition, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries for Simon Kenton staff, students and parents. Our staff is made up of Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists, Family Practice Physicians, Sports Medicine Physicians, and Orthopedic Surgeons.
Simon Kenton High School Sports Medicine Department
Simon Kenton High School Sports Medicine Department is dedicated each day to the prevention, recognition, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries for Simon Kenton staff, students and parents. Our staff is made up of Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapists, Family Practice Physicians, Sports Medicine Physicians, and Orthopedic Surgeons.