Why For ALL Youth?
Most parents would agree that youth soccer provides their children with the opportunity to enjoy soccer in a safe, engaging and enriching environment. The For ALL Youth initiative believes that we can create safer more enriching environments for all youth who play soccer by helping players, coaches, team managers and parents:
1) Excel in diverse environments both on and off the field
- sports in general, and soccer in particular, provide a unique opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to come together around a shared goal or passion.
- the more time people from diverse backgrounds spend together the more they see themselves as similar versus different.
2) Commit to the four R's:
- Receive cultural competency training and learn to recognize and respond to racist incidents.
- Recognize racist incidents as they occur in real-time.
- Respond appropriately to racist incidents when they occur.
- Report racist incidents.
