Enrichment – USASF Member Resources

The USASF has designed a series of resources to enhance the All Star Experience. These resources and tools can be used in a variety of ways. Be sure to check out the link for each one of these great resources to help you create a pathway to elevating the All Star Experience for you athletes.

Print out this poster and demonstrate to your customers all of the different pathways for elevating their All Star Experience. Include in your Parent Packet and create pathways for athletes to explore other opportunities off the mat/marley that will translate into enriched life experiences.

All Star Gives Back

An expansive effort to showcase clubs and athletes who make serving others a priority throughout the year — ANY time of year!

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All Star Wellness

Wellness Essentials is a series of short, one to five minute quick talk videos that introduce important topics like coaching and positive self talk, working with parents, encouraging a healthy program, motivational techniques, incorporating balance and fun into your practices. The series offers videos for owners, coaches, parents and athletes and promotes that within All Star, we strive for the overall physical, emotional and mental well being of the athletes.

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Leadership

USASF Leadership Facilitators bring a wealth of experience, knowledge and enthusiasm for teaching others to tap into their own personal leadership style. Our core vision is to empower those in attendance to find their personal leadership and communication style and create a path for transforming and leading those within their circle of influence.

Each Leadership Workshop will have Core Staff. Additional Leadership Regional Facilitators will be added based on registrations and location.

View complete details for the USASF IMPACT and BOLT Leadership Programs.

Parent Communication

Download these documents and share with parents via your team groups or at a parent meeting. The information is universal to all programs and can help you foster a supportive and welcoming environment.

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Project Love

Partnering with Values-in-Action Foundation, our goal is to stop bullying before it starts by empowering athletes to always lead with kindness, caring and respect. Instilling a sense of empathy and understanding for others shapes a positive culture in programs, schools and communities.

Be Kind® STICK TOGETHER® is a free, character education program offered by the USASF, Project Love and Duck Tape® in an effort to provide a fun and different way to explore the important social-emotional learning concepts of kindness and sticking together to combat bullying and negative behaviors. Using a combination of tools, the program mixes large group discussion, video elements, hands-on activities and a writing exercise to keep athletes interested and engaged. The lesson culminates with the athletes pledging to “stick together” as they write their individual names on pieces of Duck Tape® and post them on a poster provided in their membership box. This poster can hold the pledges/names of up to 150-200 athletes. After the program, the banner would be displayed prominently in facilities as a constant reminder to be kind, caring and respectful to others.

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Implementation to Project Love

Values in Action

USASF is excited to partner with Values in Action and be a part of the “I Pledge to Stick Together Against Bullying” campaign. This initiative stresses that each child is treated the way we all want to be treated – with kindness, caring, respect and empathy.

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What’s Your IQ – Chapter 1

Middle School Age and Higher

What’s your IQ is an interactive series meant to be done “in house” with the coaches and athletes. Designed for the middle to high school aged athletes of All Star, it builds individual character and team unity. Implement this program to enhance the Culture in your All Star facility!

Details

What’s YOUR IQ? Elevate your Integrity Quotient with this monthly team activity that builds individual character and team unity!

Athletes and coaches introduce a new word each month that supports the overall theme of “Integrity” and encourages conversation in gyms and studios about how athletes, teams, coaches and owners can personally be the example, and encourage others to be the example, of that month’s word.

Road Map to Implementation of What’s Your IQ
Start the conversation! Download both versions of the video and the Conversation Starters each month, and share them with your teammates, on your website and on social media!

What’s Your IQ – Chapter 2

What’s your IQ Chapter 2 is the second set of conversation starters and intended as interactive series meant to be done “in house” with the coaches and athletes. Designed for the high school-aged athletes of All Star, it builds individual character and team unity. Implement this program to enhance the Culture in your All Star facility!

Road Map to Implementation of What’s Your IQ

Complete Details on Chapter 2

What’s Your IQ – Junior

K – Middle School Ages

The USASF has created a fun activity book for upper elementary and junior high school age athletes. We hope you will use this book liberally with your athletes and encourage parents to initiate thoughtful discussions about the values that All Star provides in creating better citizens.

Road Map to Implementation of What’s Your IQ Junior

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Word Power

We as a society need to teach our children to be kind, to be accepting and understanding of others. Our programs are made up of children of different races, religions, cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic backgrounds and abilities. Many children laugh and make fun of children with disabilities because they do not understand or are uncomfortable about the differences.

The month of October is recognized as Global Diversity Awareness Month. Let’s us use this opportunity by empowering our youngsters with education with one word a week, along with a fun activity, about diversity and inclusion to teach and foster acceptance.

Instructions

In The Connection each week during the month of October you will find a Word of the Week along with a short lesson plan and activity. Print out the information and spend a few minutes with your athletes to provoke conversation. Encourage your athletes to find commonalities and talk about the differences and how people with disabilities do not want to be defined by it. Avoid words like “sick”, “suffering from”, or “wrong”. The population simply wants to be treated like everyone else and you have a great platform to teach just that!

Week 1 – Diversity

Week 2 – Inclusion

Week 3 – Self Awareness

Week 4 – Independence