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Featured Research
Frontrunners: Proof Sports-Based Youth Development Programs Work
Get Set to Make the Case: Presenting Sports as an Agent for Social Change
Athletics Fees and Budget Cuts: Going, Going, Gone. The Decline of Youth Sports
Click below for more Up2Us research and relevant industry reports:
Up2Us Research
- Educating Policy Makers in the Field of SBYD.pdf
- Factsheet 1-SBYD.pdf
- Factsheet 3-Girls and SBYD.pdf
- Impacting youth through golf.pdf
- Quality Components of SBYD.pdf
- Service Learning and SBYD.pdf
- Sports and Afterschool hours.pdf
- Sports and Bullying Prevention.pdf
- Sports and Crime prevention.pdf
- Sports and drug prevention.pdf
- Sports and obesity prevention.pdf
- Sports, Psychological health and teen pregnancy prevention.pdf
- Up2Us position paper on childhood obesity.pdf
Relevant Industry Research
- Boston_Youth Sports Scan.pdf
- Learning to play and playing to learn-Organized sports and educational outcomes.pdf
- Playing well-Organized sports and the health of children and youth.pdf
- The Perils of Poverty- The Health Crisis Facing our Low-income Girls and the Power of Sports to Help.pdf
- Tucker Center-Developing physically active girls.pdf
- Womens Sport Foundation- Her Life Depends On It II.pdf
- Womens Sport Foundation-Sport and teen pregnancy.pdf
- Womens Sports Foundation Go Out and Play exec summary.pdf
- Active hours after school-obesity prevention.pdf
- Adolescent Experiences from Participating in extracurricular and community-based activities
- Adolescent participation in organized activities.pdf
- Afterschool programs prevent crime.pdf
- National Youth Gang Survey Trends.pdf
- NIOST-Making the Case 2009 factsheet on children and youth in ost.pdf
- Research in youth sports-Critical issues status.pdf
- The case for high school activities.pdf
- The learning connection-The value of improving nutrition and physical activity in our schools.pdf
- Youth sport participation-A view of the issues.pdf
There are more than 122 million overweight and obese Americans between the ages of 20 and 65, and 1 in 3 young people is either overweight, obese or a risk for becoming overweight or obese. Furthermore, the 2009 National Survey of Children’s Health showed that non-athletes are 60 percent more likely to be overweight than non-athletes.