Re-Designing Youth Sport: Change the Game

Re-Designing Youth Sport combines vivid examples and case studies of innovative sport programs who are re-designing their sport with a comprehensive toolkit for practitioners on how to change their game for bigger and better outcomes.

Author: John McCarthy,Lou Bergholz,Megan Bartlett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/07/2016
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781138852204

About the Author

John McCarthy, clinical faculty in Boston University's School of Education, is the founder and Director of the BU Institute for Athletic Coach Education. He works with coaches and youth sport organizations to reclaim the purpose of sport for youth development.

Lou Bergholz is the founder of Edgework Consulting, a Boston-based firm that helps support the development of innovative interventions for some of the world's most challenged children and youth. Lou has helped design and implement programs across four continents, working on issues of mental health and trauma, violence reduction, HIV prevention and gender-based violence.

Megan Bartlett is Chief Program Officer at Up2Us, a national coalition of more than 1000 organizations that use sport to promote positive youth development. She oversees training, research and dissemination of evaluation tools that enable organizations to provide high quality programs for youth across the country.