URBAN YOUTH SPORTS
Acting
Program Director:
Linda Keefe
Urban
Youth Sports
Health Connection
Project
Director:
Linda
Keefe
Youth
Sports Health Coordinator:
Linda Keefe
(Mattapan Community
Health Center)
Youth
Sports Health Coordinator:
Linda Keefe
(Brookside Community
Health Center,
Jamaica Plain)
Youth
Sports Health Coordinator:
Julie Vanier
(Bowdoin Street Community
Health Center, Dorcester)
Project
Director:
Alfreda
Harris
Research
Director:
Cindy Hannon
(617) 373-4025
FACTS:
Organization
receiving Grant:
Northeastern University's Center for the Study
of Sport in Society
716 Columbus
Ave. Suite 161
Boston, MA 02120
Amount Received: $430,000 for 36 months
Date
budget began: August 1, 2000
Date budget ends: July 31, 2003
Brief
Summary of Project:
Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society was
awarded a $431,000 grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF) to fund the Urban Youth Sport
Health Connection.
Goals:
-
To enhance community health by significantly increasing the number of Boston youth, ages 6-18, participating in organized sports and recreation programs.
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To increase youth access to health care and healthy development.
Lead
Funding Partner:
BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts
($75,000 per year matching grant approved)
Peter Meade
Executive Vice President
Contact
person:
Sylvia Stevens-Edouard
Community Relations Director
100 Summer Street, 14th Floor
Boston, MA 02110-2190
(617) 832-4843
FAX: (617) 832-4832
Additional
Funding Partner:
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
($75,000 per year approved)
James Hunt
Executive Director
100 Boylston St., suite 700
Boston MA 02116
(617) 426-2225
Collaborating
Partners:
City
of Boston
Thomas
Menino
Mayor
Peter
Welsh
Chief of Policy & Planning
City Hall, Boston
MA
(617) 635-3174
Harvard Prevention Research Center
Dr.
Steve Gortmaker
Principal Investigator
677 Huntington
Ave
Boston 02115-6096
(617) 432-1029
Boston
Children's Hospital
Dr.
Lyle Micheli, M.D.
Director, Division of Sports Medicine
319 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 355-6028
Boston
Medical Center
Dr.
George Askew, M.D.
Director of the Division of Community Pediatrics
Dowling 1 South, Suite 353
Boston 02118-2393
(617) 414-3681
Boston
Youth Sport Congress
David
Burnes
Director
1010 Massachusetts
Avenue
(617) 635-4505 (ext.
6200)
Parks & Recreation Dept.
Bill Raynor
Director of Recreation
1010 Massachusetts Avenue
(617) 635-4463
Mattapan
Community Health Center
Dr. Azzie Young
Executive Director
1425 Blue Hill Ave., Mattapan, MA 02126
(617) 296-6960
Brookside
Community Health Center
Paula McNichols
Executive
Director
3297 Washington St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 983-6039
Northeastern
University's
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SPORT IN SOCIETY
360 Huntington Avenue, Suite 161 CP
Boston, MA 02115-5000
Phone: (617) 373-4025
Fax: (617) 373-4566 / 2092
E-MAIL US at [email protected]