Youth Sports Alliance

 

Our Mission
Our mission is to provide positive results driven after-school sports, academics and life skills programming for all youth of various lifestyles and backgrounds ages 7-14, by using the youth participants’ love for organized sports as motivation, in conjunction with teaching them the importance of succeeding in academics and achieving their highest level of self fulfillment and personal development, in terms of physical, social, moral and spiritual aspects of life.

 

Our History
Kevin Scott and Ed Gordon founded the YSA in 2006, while serving as key board members and volunteer program directors, for the Grand Rapids Youth Athletics Organization (GRYAO). 

 

Kevin and Ed came to the realization that the community needed a strong results driven organization, designed to help keep our community youth off the streets that would not only focus on sports participation, and implement academics and life skills development programming into the mix. The (SAL) concept was created and we began our pursuit to make this much needed organization reality for the inner city youth of our community, in collaboration with the Michigan Black Expo Inc. (MBEI), and established non-profit that has been in existence since 1994.

YSA Community Programs Are More Than Just Sports!
The word “Sports” is part of our name and a key component in our community project however; our sports component fits into the larger context of our work in getting our community inner city youth off the streets, and away from the pulls and pushes of getting into trouble.

Research is proving that sports recreation opportunities are necessary for healthy development of young people “especially those in neighborhoods of poverty where other social options are minimal, and society’s negative influences are everywhere.

While many of your funding guidelines may not consider youth sports and recreation a high priority or see the value of funding projects involving youth sports, understand that many inner city youth see sports as a way out.

Our (SAL) based programming model was developed from personally seeing what sports mean to inner city youth. We use our sports programming as a motivational vehicle to accomplish our goal of developing successful student athletes that lead to building future leaders of tomorrow.

Our main goal is to improve our inner city youth in the areas of education, life skills and keeping them out of trouble, while helping our community reduce juvenile delinquency.

Kevin Scott

Founder/President
Youth Sports Alliance

kscott@ysagr.org

Cell: (616) 350-1909
Main: 1-800-559-6036

Ed Gordon

Vice President/Director of Football Operations

Youth Sports Alliance

egordon@ysagr.org

Cell: (616) 516-4566
Main: 1-800-559-6036

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