The
Center for the Advancement of Responsible Youth Sport (CARYS), through its various
educational, service, and research activities, has as its mission the promotion
of positive and developmentally appropriate sport and physical activity programs
for youth populations. The Center will provide a forum—through workshops,
colloquia, round-table discussions, coaching certification, internship opportunities,
and applied research—for faculty and students to interact with parents,
coaches, and sport/recreation professionals in the local community. At the forefront
of its mission are the needs of a community increasingly reliant on sport and
physical activity as an important educational tool for healthy children and
adolescents. CARYS is committed to solving problems in an integrated fashion
by forming partnerships with the community. Specifically, CARYS will address
critical issues—such as promotion of healthy lifestyles, coaching education,
values and ethics in sport, safety and injury prevention, spectator and participant
aggression, and parental codes of conduct—primarily associated with nonschool-based
youth sport and physical activity programs.
The
Center for the Advancement of Responsible Youth Sport (CARYS), through its various
educational, service, and research activities, has as its mission the promotion
of positive and developmentally appropriate sport and physical activity programs
for youth populations. The Center will provide a forum—through workshops,
colloquia, round-table discussions, coaching certification, internship opportunities,
and applied research—for faculty and students to interact with parents,
coaches, and sport/recreation professionals in the local community. At the forefront
of its mission are the needs of a community increasingly reliant on sport and
physical activity as an important educational tool for healthy children and
adolescents. CARYS is committed to solving problems in an integrated fashion
by forming partnerships with the community. Specifically, CARYS will address
critical issues—such as promotion of healthy lifestyles, coaching education,
values and ethics in sport, safety and injury prevention, spectator and participant
aggression, and parental codes of conduct—primarily associated with nonschool-based
youth sport and physical activity programs.
