Table of Contents:
  • An overview of how sports, out-of-school time, and youth well-being can and do intersect / Suzanne Le Menestrel, Daniel F. Perkins
  • Improving health through youth sports: Is participation enough? / Michael F. Bergeron
  • Cooperation versus competition: Is there really such an issue? / Ann Michelle Daniels
  • Youth sport as a component of organized afterschool programs / J. Douglas Coatsworth, David E. Conroy
  • Characteristics of sports-based youth development programs / Daniel F. Perkins, Gil G. Noam
  • Examples of sports-based youth development programs / Richard A. Berlin, Aaron Dworkin, Ned Eames, Arn Menconi, Daniel F. Perkins
  • Intermediaries supporting sports-based youth development programs / Anne Wicks, Jeffrey P. Beedy, Kathy J. Spangler, Daniel F. Perkins.