Proposal

My plan is to incorporate sports with inner city kids as a way to get away from every day life. I would volunteer in the city, or in Springfield at an open field or lot. With a few other coaches/players and some younger inner city kids. As a product of my work kids will be provided with an outlet that will last longer then the duration of the project. Kids will have another positive thing to do instead of just being on the streets idle which leads to bad decisions. One step that I will need to take will be to procure donations of either cash or equipment need to play a few team sports such as football lacrosse and soccer. Finally, I will most likely need a field of some sort on which to hold one or two events. If not a field then a basketball court which could be used as a multipurpose platform for sports to be played on.

I will look into the correlation between sports and kids ability to success in both school and life in general. I would look into studies about this and contemporary sports figures as an influence and what it means to have a "hoop dream". I will do my reasearch while asking myself "Do sports have a positive effect on kids or are they responsible for the perception that sports may be the only way out?". Kids who get to play sports instead of having nothing better to do, will also get a positive influence from the experience. As far as the resources i will need, the parks and rec department of Springfield township could get me access to a few good locations in the area, and help me find people who have more knowledge about what I need to do. l hope to learn how to deal with the system and set something up, and in the end people too.