Through the?Healthy People 2030?program, the federal government has set for the first time a national target for youth sports participation: 63%?by the year?2030. To help reach the target, #ProjectPlay convenes leading organizations that have made multi-year commitments to measurably grow sport participation rates among youth.?We're proud to launch our new vision: #63X30. Join us!
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Project Play, the Sports & Society Program's signature initiative, develops, applies and shares knowledge to help build healthy communities through sports. We identify access and quality gaps in sport activities for youth and help organizations to fill them. Project Play connects the silos across the disjointed landscape of youth and school sports and develops systems-level solutions. Newsletter signup: as.pn/ppsubscribe.
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Why are 4 of 5 Kansas City children struggling to get enough physical activity? The Kansas City Star writes about The Aspen Institute's State of Play Kansas City report in partnership with Children's Mercy Kansas City, including the important role transportation plays to access sports. Some kids can't play sports due to transportation. Kansas City children from low-income homes (61%) are driven to practices/games by family members less than kids from middle-income (76%) and high-income homes (83%). Read State of Play Kansas City: https://lnkd.in/e_5qYXDN
Why 4 of 5 Kansas City kids struggle to get enough physical activity, per new study
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ATHLETIC TRAINERS: Is your school supporting the High School RIO study? For 20 years, Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention, Inc and NFHS have used AT medical reporting to track injury trends and patterns over time, identify emerging issues, assist clinical decisions, drive policy changes, and influence staffing and funding decisions. Our work at Aspen Institute Sports & Society benefits first hand! We rely on this important data to drive our strategy with the National ACL Injury Coalition. Get involved today (Cash incentives and CEU's included) Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gn22nzzw?or?[email protected]
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The eyes of the sports world will be on Kansas City in 2026 when the FIFA Men’s World Cup visits the region. It’s a tremendous opportunity for the city to leverage its passion for sports to achieve an important goal. Every child has the right to play sports. What if Kansas City’s World Cup legacy creates more equitable and quality sports opportunities to all children so they can develop as people?
How the World Cup can give Kansas City kids more opportunity to play sports | Opinion
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The Aspen Institute Project Play initiative is excited to release our 14th community State of Play report – Kansas City! In partnership with Children's Mercy Kansas City, State of Play Kansas City shows the significant value of physical activity to the mental health of children in the Kansas City region. However, not enough young people regularly move their bodies — and the report offered recommendations on how to make improvements. Read State of Play Kansas City: as.pn/SOPKansasCity Key findings from the report: ? Physical activity helps mental health: Only 20% of surveyed youth in the KC region receive 60 minutes of physical activity daily as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Highly active children are two times less likely to report feeling depressed nearly every day than inactive youth. Children with at least 60 minutes of physical activity daily also expressed less anxiety, worry and nervousness and more happiness and motivation than their peers without physical activity during a week. ? Why local children play sports: Having fun (50%) and playing with friends (48%) were by far the top reasons among surveyed youth. Winning games (20%) and trying to earn a college scholarship (8%) ranked much lower. ? Most popular sports in Kansas City: Boys most regularly participate in tackle football (40%), basketball (38%), soccer (34%), baseball (22%) and weightlifting (17%). The most popular activities for girls are soccer (24%), volleyball (22%), basketball (19%), dance (18%) and gymnastics (17%). ? Household income impacts the type of sports experiences: Surveyed children from low-income homes were three times less likely to play on traveling teams than those from high-income homes. Low-income children were also less likely to “almost always” or “frequently” have fun in sports or gain sports knowledge from their most recent sports experience than the wealthiest youth. ? Lack of infrastructure to support youth with disabilities: Only 2% of regional sports and physical activity providers focus on serving people with developmental or physical disabilities.
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Shout-out to our partners at the Denver Broncos Football Club Foundation?for their incredible support of the inaugural Colorado Youth Sports Giving Day! Check out this story to learn how they're getting involved in the month-long campaign.
With support of Denver Broncos Foundation, Colorado organizations launch inaugural Colorado Youth Sports Giving Day
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On this first-ever Colorado #YouthSportsGivingDay, our new Project Play Colorado effort is proud to partner with the Daniels Fund and hundreds of youth sports programs across our home state to help more kids participate in sports. From now through the end of September, Youth Sports Giving Day's generous partners will dollar-for-dollar match donations to participating programs. Visit youthsportsgivingday.org to find a program and make a donation.
Daniels Fund and Project Play Colorado Announce First-Ever Colorado Youth Sports Giving Day
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Excellent piece this week in Bloomberg News on whether private equity will help or hurt youth sports.
Did you know the youth sports economy in the US alone is larger than all revenues flowing through the NFL or any other professional league in the world? Parents alone spend north of $30B minimum annually, by our count. Now private equity is entering the space. Excellent piece this week by Ira Boudway of Bloomberg News on how an industry famous for squeezing out value claims it will make the youth sports experience better — and maybe more accessible. We’ll see. My quote in the piece: “Private equity could be the best thing that happened to youth sports. It could also be the worst thing. It’s going to come down to their imagination, intelligence and patience.” What I mean: youth sports today is largely a Wild West, mom-and-pop run space in which the average age at which kids quit is 11. Youth 6-17 playing organized sports has fallen from 58% in 2016 to 54% in 2022, according to federal data. It’s why Aspen Institute Sports & Society #ProjectPlay recently challenged our network to lift that rate to 63% by 2030, starting with the leading organizations at our national roundtable (63X30). Will private equity firms bring professional management, program standards, and safety risk mitigation practices that improve the experience and reduce attrition? Could PE develop more high-quality, locally delivered models to engage more kids at a lower price point? Could PE help replace the PE (phys ed) lost in schools? Or will PE do the easy thing and just try to wring more $$ out of an increasingly smaller pool of families with the income to stay in the youth sports arms race? My sense is greater returns can be achieved via the former option. But it will take leadership and something of a B Corp mentality — a recognition that when business plays with kids, the interests of the kids need to come first. A youth-centered sport ecosystem for all should be the animating vision, and the goal should be helping the supply of quality experiences meet the demand for them (from kids and parents, 85% of whom want their kid involved in sports). One key will be improving coach quality. Again, we’ll see. Stay tuned. #youthsports #privateequity
Private Equity Is Coming for Youth Sports
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Insurance carrier Players Health joins #63X30, a group of leading organizations that have made multi-year commitments to measurably grow sport participation rates among youth. Chief Mission Delivery Officer Kyle Lubrano spoke with Tom Farrey about the state of the youth sports insurance market, the company's advocacy at the state level, and the role insurers can play in growing participation.
Players Health exec: How insurance helps close gaps in athlete safety - Project Play
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What is your state doing to support sports in your community and schools? To fund programs, balance competing interests, and promote the health and safety of children and adolescents? Linda Flanagan shares what we can learn from five leading states. Plus, download a new #ProjectPlay resource with more than 20 examples to help stakeholders advocate at the state level for what makes sense to them.
How five states got in the game of youth sports - Project Play
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