Do you screen your staff and volunteers annually?
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is also the time of year when we put our annual team background checks on the calendar. Background checks are one of the…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is also the time of year when we put our annual team background checks on the calendar. Background checks are one of the…
Icebreakers are a great tool for people to get more comfortable with one another. In group settings, it is especially hard for kids to open up to one another. We…
While the Badges for Baseball program uses baseball as the initial hook to get kids to participate, the program doesn’t have to be baseball exclusive. The lessons taught in the HCHC curriculum…
I can remember it like it was yesterday: our CRSF program staff had just completed a clinic with youth from the MLB Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program and…
This week is National Volunteer Week. Although some of us are paid staff at our organizations, most if not all of us have been volunteers at some point.  As youth-serving…
While the Badges for Baseball program uses baseball as the initial hook to get kids to participate, the program doesn’t have to be baseball exclusive. The lessons taught in the HCHC curriculum…
Last year, we were proud to introduce the Healthy Choices, Healthy Children: Financial Literacy Edition – helping you begin with your kids the conversation (and practice) of applying personal responsibility…
Aside from family, who were the adults from your childhood who had a big influence on you? Coaches, teachers, the staff at your afterschool program?As a coach, you have a…
Remarkable, exceptional, out of the ordinary, rare…these are all words that you find in the definition for uncommon. Uncommon people are everywhere you look. Cal, Jr. and Bill were fortunate enough to have…
Carrie Marsh is a mentor in the Reach and Rise Mentoring Program at the Y of Central Maryland. This year, Carrie and her team have done a great job implementing…