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Educators encouraged by results of Arizona recess law

Kelly Doyle

February 05, 2019 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

A new law that requires more recess throughout the day in Arizona's public schools is helping kids inside and outside of the classroom.

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Student athletes aren't the only ones getting concussions — and needing classroom help

Shasta Kearns Moore

January 18, 2019 |

InvestigateWest |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oregon

Because concussions can turn deadly if not managed correctly, several state legislatures have passed return-to-play laws that dictate when an athlete can return to the game. To complement this and offer resources to schools where these laws aren't in place or when a concussion is suffered by a non-athlete, psychologists have created free online tools show best practices in managing concussions within a classroom environment.

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Coaches shift ‘locker room talk' to promote healthy relationships, respect among student athletes

Allison Dikanovic

November 14, 2018 |

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Coaches have unique relationships with their players and Milwaukee is using that to help young men create healthy, respectful relationships as part of a pilot project using the curriculum Coaching Boys Into Men. The training uses ideas of teamwork and sports to apply those principles to actual situations and relationships. An evaluation of the curriculum in Sacramento found participants were less likely to commit abuse and more likely to intervene when they witness problematic behavior by peers.

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Checking the blind spot

Blair Stenvick

July 25, 2018 |

InvestigateWest |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

In Oregon, there is a law in place that helps guide public school officials in how to react to a child with a possible concussion, but that law doesn't address what to do if a child suffers a concussion during private competitions. To address this loophole, concussion experts as well as a skier that had been impacted by this blind spot, led a legal fight that eventually allowed the expansion of this law to also cover "organized youth sports that take place outside public schools."

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Parents Behaving Badly: A Youth Sports Crisis Caught on Video

Bill Pennington

July 18, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

New supports are being put into place for the referees of youth sports leagues in order to stop or punish harassment. These include signs, monitors in the stands, and a Facebook page that publicly shames out of control patients.

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How Max's injury became Max's Law

Lee van der Voo

May 23, 2018 |

InvestigateWest |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

After a high school football player in Oregon was concussed in a game, his condition elevated to a traumatic brain injury when he was sent back in to play without proper rest. To combat this lapse in judgment from happening again, the state passed legislation that "set out guidelines that a coach must follow in the event that he or she suspects a player has received a blow to the head or body and then exhibits signs or symptoms consistent with a concussion."

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Iceland has largely kicked teen drinking. What can it teach other countries?

Sara Miller Llana

December 29, 2017 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Iceland

In the late 1990s, Iceland had both a high rate of teen alcohol abuse and a lackadaisical attitude towards that abuse. Responses to these issues included instituting a curfew, investment in after school activities, and programs to change parent attitudes. The result has been a large decrease in alcohol use among teens and a strengthening of family relationships.

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How a Boy's Concussion Death Changed British Sports

Ken Belson

December 13, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, Rosewell

After a young rugby player died in Northern Ireland, his family and a brain expert set about to establish concussion guidelines, looking in part to the United States.

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