"We're moving forward because now is not a time for small plans. It's not a time to pause, to be passive, or to wait around for our problems to fix themselves." President Barack Obama, May 8, 2009.

For an executive summary of the GetPsychedSports.org philosophy to use education and sports programming to seriously reduce the financial and human costs of social ills like violence, addictions, eating disorders, obesity and depression, see here.

The whole community suffers when schools, as well as youth and school athletics, are not considered a place to address community issues such as violence, addictions, eating disorders, obesity and depression. Schools and sports teams are ideal places to teach mental health skills because they shape young minds into habits of thinking that lead to emotional health, self-control, academic achievememt and long-lasting relationships.

Headlines, and our own personal experiences, show how frustration, anger, resentment, and negativity has permeated our society. "To reform mankind, we have been advised to begin not with adults, but with children; we must begin with the schools," said Luther Halsey Gulick, the father of interscholastic sports, a hundred years ago.

Schools, and sports teams, need a curriculum that teaches the very same skills that are found in anger management and addiction program after the fact. If we teach these skills before the fact, imagine the impact on our society.

A league or school-wide written curriculum based in science is a way to assure young people, parents and coaches that the same values and mental skills are practiced throughout the school.

GetPsychedSports.org educates and advocates for the use of schools and organized youth and school sport as a tool to have kids regularly practice the proven skills of self-control, the common thread that runs through issues of violence, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and other societal ills.

This website is currently undergoing changes to adapt to its mission to advocate and educate about the value of cognitive-behavioral and sport psychology in all children setttings - school, sports and after school programming. Teaching self-control skills at an early age can transform our society and is not a complex process.

Thank you for being patient as we undergo this transformation.

As of March, 2009, GetPsychedSports.org and Dr. Pamela Enders, will be joining with the participants of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts's Mature Workers Program to make progress in achieving their goal of gaining and retaining employment by teaching and practicing these very same mental skills that are used on sports teams, in board rooms and in psychology offices. Isn't it time for these same skills be taught in our schools?

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