Oct. 13, 2023

The Oswego City-County Youth Bureau is now accepting purposes for funding to assist applications that concentrate on offering group sports activities and bodily health actions to youth throughout the county.

The company is making ready to distribute as much as $60,000 in grants to applications that meet youth group sports activities funding tips. These embody offering structured sports activities actions to Oswego County youth between the ages of 6 and 17 in communities with restricted assets.

“This is a great opportunity for adults and older youth to take on a mentoring role, offering life lessons to our young people,” mentioned Oswego County Youth Bureau Executive Director Brian Chetney. “Team sports foster a constructive environment for youth to learn about teamwork and build a sense of community, skills they will use throughout their lives.”

Affirmative youth growth built-in in bodily and wholesome actions, and sports activities particularly, can positively have an effect on their private progress in areas equivalent to vanity, aim setting and management abilities. In addition, actions and sports activities construct essential motor abilities, forestall weight problems and cut back stress and psychological challenges.

The funds are offered by the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Grants are supposed to assist quite a lot of native youth group sports activities applications catering to a broad vary of youth in communities throughout the state the place such applications could also be scarce or under-resourced.

For the needs of this grant funding, a ‘team sport’ is outlined as an organized bodily exercise by which teams of two or extra people are in competitors with two or extra opposing people. Sporting actions the place people have interaction in competitors on behalf of an organized group, equivalent to singles tennis, group golf, or racing sports activities equivalent to swimming or snowboarding, are additionally included on this definition.

All funded applications should goal to advertise the next:

• bodily well being and well-being: enhance bodily exercise and create or improve optimistic relationships to 1’s physique.
• psychological well being and well-being: enhance outcomes associated to youth psychological well being, equivalent to growth of social and emotional abilities and interpersonal connectedness.
• employment: develop qualifying abilities, equivalent to collective problem-solving, teamwork and dispute decision which all assist put together youth for appropriate employment.
• group cohesion: break down boundaries to scale back discrimination, crime and violence in communities, and assist the younger leaders of tomorrow flourish.

Grant purposes are due by Friday, October 27.

The Oswego City-County Youth Bureau Board of Directors will overview and consider every proposal for price effectiveness, affect and measurable outcomes. It can even make sure that every undertaking serves a big cross-section of youth from completely different age teams and geographic areas in Oswego County. Funding choices and awards will probably be primarily based on New York State tips.

For extra info, full tips or to request an utility bundle, contact Tiffany Halstead at  tiffany.halstead@oswegocounty.com or name the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau at 315-349-3590