Can rowing positively affect at-risk communities? The topic of outreach rowing has been much discussed the last few years, generating articles and opinions nation wide. It is my belief that rowing provides obvious, and not so obvious, benefits to participants and I also strongly believe that any movement to push these benefits along need to [...]
A roadmap to address issues facing urban underserved youth. Sometimes, young people value doing nothing over doing something. Why? Because positive activities have never been presented to them in a way that addresses their values, which are often misplaced. Many urban youth see professional sports as a realistic job opportunity, define success as earning quick [...]
Despite modest increases in the number of available afterschool opportunities for our young people over recent years, the demand for quality programs far outpaces the supply. According to Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Chicago Out-of-School Time (OST) Project there are only enough publicly funded opportunities to reach a little more than one-third of [...]