The ways in which one afterschool basketball program helped at-risk youngsters in the inner-
city to take control of their lives are discussed. While the teacher explains values within the …

Teaching an Inner-City After-School Program Page 1 Teaching an Inner-City After-School
Program An after-school basketball program has helped at-risk youngsters to take charge of …

Abstract Hellison (p. 37) introduces a series of articles which examine the benefits physical
education can offer specific disadvantaged groups. One such group, disproportionately …

Since its inception in 1983, the San Antonio chapter of the National Youth Sports Coaches
Association (NYSCA), a non-profit educational programme that trains volunteer coaches …

I came here to study sport psychology and did so my first two years, but after learning about
the self and social responsibility model, I decided to become involved in the At-Risk Youth …

66 y colleagues (faculty, graduate students, and majors) and I at the University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC) have been involved in the development of, and have been teaching in, before …

Susan D. Hudson playing outside, supervised by two playground aides. Since there were no
balls or other pieces of equipment available, the kids had to invent their own games and …

The purpose of this article is to describe the various ways in which the developmental needs
of middle school students can be met in a physical education program. The themes of …

Parents, teachers and administrators were involved in a comprehensive process of
designing an organized athletic program that would focus on development of skills and …

M y first year in Chicago I spent 14 weeks teaching martial arts in an afterschool program
serving a large housing project and about eight weeks coaching a volleyball team in the …