San Francisco Children Get Exercise and Build Life Skills
Community initiative to increase participation in youth sports
Dates of Program: January 1999 to August 2006
Field of Work: Reducing substance abuse and improving the health and safety of children
Synopsis of the Work: After School: Connecting Children at Risk With Responsible Adults to Help Reduce Youth Substance Abuse and Other Health-Compromising Behaviors was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that helped develop intermediary organizations in Boston, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area in order to create citywide systems of after-school programs.
Story Told: The Tenderloin Youth Sports Initiative gave low-income children living in San Francisco's downtown Tenderloin neighborhood a way to exercise (e.g., ice skating, bowling, football, and basketball) and build life skills. San Francisco's intermediary organization, Team-Up for Youth, funded the Bay Area Women's and Children's Center to establish the initiative. Read the sidebar to learn more.
After School Sidebars
Stories from the RWJF national program, After School: Connecting Children at Risk With Responsible Adults to Help Reduce Youth Substance Abuse and Other Health-Compromising Behaviors
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