Doc Wayne’s softball programming is deep into the summer season. Players and coaches have been “Playing to the Whistle” all season working on both their athletic and do the good® skills. A season within the Therapeutic Sports Program, softball is played in addition to soccer, basketball, and flag football.
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Doc Wayne (www.docwayne.org) presented do the good: Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Therapeutic Sports Program at the 2013 Massachusetts Association of 766 Private Schools (maaps) 35th Annual Conference (http://maaps.org).
General Manager Rebekah Roulier, Executive Director David Cohen, and Coach Nikki Valila shared best practices in sport programming to promote normalcy, reduce restraints and social isolations, increase pro-social behaviors as well as create evidence based therapeutic sports programs. Techniques from Doc Wayne’s therapeutic sport-based do the good curriculum were taught.
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Doc Wayne GM Rebekah Roulier
Doc Wayne Executive Director David Cohen
Doc Wayne Coach Nikki Valila (Youth Villages at Germaine Lawrence Campus)
Group Activity
Doc Wayne’s Global Life Empowerment (GLE) program (http://www.docwayne.org/what-we-do/GLE), funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s After-School and Out-of-School Time (ASOST-Q) Grant Program program, focused on nutrition and the skill “Power Up” for month #3. Participants learned the importance of making healthy food choices and how that directly impacts their performance on and off the playing field.
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Doc Wayne’s Global Life Empowerment Month #3 Nutrition Project
Doc Wayne GM Rebekah Roulier and Global Life Empowerment (GLE) Participant making fruit salad
Doc Wayne’s Global Life Empowerment Project
Global Life Empowerment Participant
Doc Wayne is pleased to announce we will be participating in the Giving Common Challenge, a statewide online fundraising effort on October 10th and 11th including more than 500 nonprofits from across Massachusetts. Beginning at 8 a.m. on October 10th, Doc Wayne and others will be highlighting our work and encouraging donations through our profile on Giving Common, an initiative of the Boston Foundation. Donors can give money to organizations through the Giving Common portal.
You can visit Doc Wayne’s profile at http://www.givingcommon.org. A direct link will be available on October 10th.
You can also help by:
Doc Wayne seeks to offer an innovative group therapy experience delivered through the medium of team sports stressing positive youth development.
For more information on Doc Wayne please email info@docwayne.org or visit www.docwayne.org
Doc Wayne hosted a Coach/Youth Worker do the good curriculum training on Friday, September 7th at the Susan Wayne Center of Excellence (Thompson, CT). For the first time, the training combined coaches and youth workers from multiple settings including:
In addition to being trained in Doc Wayne’s therapeutic life skills curriculum, do the good, the participants engaged in teambuilding exercises and networked during active training to learn strategies from each other’s work in the field and application of do the good.
Kristen Rasmussen Tarr, a former WNBA star and current Simmons College Women’s Basketball Head Coach, was on hand to share her playing and coaching experiences with the group.
Coaches returning to training, received sport psychology training from Doc Wayne GM Rebekah Conway Roulier, Ed.M. on visualization and relaxation techniques to use for themselves as well as their team. Roulier and Doc Wayne Executive Director David Cohen, both former college soccer players, ended the day with a soccer skills clinic to prepare the coaches for their upcoming season.
For information on upcoming trainings please email info@docwayne.org.
Video of coaches participating in teambuilding at training:
Doc Wayne Coach Eric Davis (Key Program Outreach Caseworker) and Doc Wayne Liaison Tara Keefe (Key Program Supervisor) submitted an article to their agency newsletter narrating their team’s most recent Doc Wayne boy’s flag football season.
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