OUR WORK
Vision: Every child will have access to high-quality youth sports activities grounded in the principles of positive youth development.
Mission: To dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in Philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every community.
STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONS
By delivering support services both “on and off the field”, PYSC works to enhance the capacity of Philadelphia’s sports-based youth development organizations to provide high-quality services at a scale commensurate with community need.
BUILDING A MOVEMENT
PYSC works to build collaborations, partnerships, and have a system-wide impact to advance and sustain the sports-based youth development sector in Philadelphia.
ADVOCACY
PYSC measures the impact of programming, working to demonstrate outcomes that will influence and drive favorable public policy for the sports-based youth development sector.
MEMBERSHIP
Sports-based youth development organizations, other youth services organizations, school systems, public departments, and researchers are important partners who have joined us in the important discussion of how to best serve Philadelphia’s young people.
RESOURCES
PYSC is constantly learning more about the impact of sports-based youth development. The ongoing research, partnership development, and networking that PYSC conducts serves to infuse the Philadelphia SBYD sector with knowledge and opportunities that make it healthier and more sustainable.
NATIONAL MODELS
A relatively new area of theory and practice, sports-based youth development is a rapidly growing field. By understanding and working with the national leaders in the field, PYSC translates that knowledge into actionable steps to support Philadelphia’s SBYD sector.
LINKS
PYSC’s library of websites, research studies, networking opportunities, and other useful information related to sports-based youth development.
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Strengthening the Sports-Based Youth Development Sector with Measurement and Evaluation
January 22, 2019PYSC firmly believes in the importance of measuring what you do. We expect our members to always work towards better evaluation methods, and we speak with our members about their program goals and outcomes and how they track progress. Our partners at Temple University’s School of Sport, Hospitality, and Tourism Management have shared their expertise in program evaluation with our members regularly, even helping develop logic models to be sure a program is producing the desired results.
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