PROJECT PLAY YOUTH SPORTS RESOURCES

We all want sports to be a great experience for kids. If you’re a parent or caregiver, you want it that much more. Because once you have a child, your favorite athlete is no longer someone you watch on TV — it’s the budding athlete down the hall, the one you’re raising.

These Parent Checklists are for you. They distill Project Play’s frameworks into simple 10-point checklists that can be read at a glance. They include questions you can ask your child, yourself, and local programs when considering how to build an athlete for life.

The checklists were developed with input from experts in the Project Play network, including the Families in Sport Lab at Utah State University, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State University, USA Hockey, US Lacrosse, the University of Minnesota, Playworks, the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, SHAPE America, and Whole Child Sports.