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Grand Rapids Youth Athletics Organization Partnership Finalized.
May 12, 2008 - -- The Grand Rapids Youth Athletics Organization and the Youth Sports Alliance is proud to announce our strategic partnership, that will allow us to strive for a higher standard in providing the best football and cheerleading programming in West Michigan.
You will see many changes and improvements to a select number of teams this season under the YSA pilot program, that is in the best interest of our community youth and both organizations for the future.
We ask that the parents of our impressionable youth participants and community onlookers embrace this partnership and support us, as we work hard to improve our GRYAO through the good and the bad.
We are truly excited about this partnership and believe that collectively our partnership brings an in depth knowledge and experience that was never accomplished in a united front.
Please be patient with us through the planning process as more information and website improvements are coming!
2008 Football and Cheerlelading Registration Information
May 12, 2008 - -- The Youth Sports Alliance and the Grand Rapids Youth Athletics Organization will be announcing the start of registration this week. The registration fee will be $55.00 for Grand Rapids Public School attendees and $70.00 for all other school districts including charter schools.
Check back later this week for detailed information on the registration process.
For more information on the registration process please contact us!
What is the Youth Sports Alliance?
The Youth Sports Alliance (YSA) in collaboration with the Michigan Black Expo Incorporated (MBEI) is a non-profit organization that exists to:
1.) Facilitate positive after-school opportunities using (S.A.L.L.), Sports, Academics, Life Skills and Literacy for disadvantaged inner city youth ages 6-14 of the City of Grand Rapids.
2.) Help reduce Juvenile Delinquency in the community by providing programs that will gradually close the door to the common pulls and pushes of getting into trouble, and the novelty of joining gangs.
3.) Provide sports and recreation opportunities for disadvantaged inner city youth living in poverty that lack the necessary financial means, to pay for expensive programs of this magnitude.
4.) Our Reading Corner Literacy Program will improve inner city and at-risk youth’s ability to read, write, listen and speak while making it fun to learn.
What is the YSA’s Purpose?
The YSA was founded to change the path our community youth have been wandering down without leadership and role models, to help them in their pursuit to become a model citizens and successful student athletes.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide positive results driven after-school sports and recreation programs for inner city youth ages 6-14, by using the youth participants’ love for organized sports as motivation, to teach them how to excel in academics and achieve their highest level of self fulfillment and personal development, in terms of physical, social, moral and spiritual aspects of life.
The YSA Is 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 (S.A.L.L.) Sports, Academics, Life Skills and Literacy 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, literacy and keeping them out of trouble, while helping our community reduce juvenile delinquency.
To Learn more about our community programs, click on the program link below.
Contact us with any questions you may have about the Youth Sports Alliance!