BASKETBALL EQUITY ACTION TEAM (BEAT) – M
After the great success of the You Got Next Basketball festivals over the summer, the BEAT is focused on providing coach and program support for its members.
This will include SEL and trauma-informed coach training with training partners like the Center for Leadership in Athletics at UW and the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport as well as other capacity building and program support.
Recently, Tukwila Parks and Recreation announced it would offer additional 3×3 basketball programming after the success of the Basketball Equity Action Team “You Got Next” festivals last summer!
BIG WIN! There will be a recess bill in the 2023 legislative session that mandates recess for all elementary students! We are going to need all hands on deck, so each week you will find the latest advocacy needs in this space.
Below are some advocacy opportunities to support our effort!
1. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION IN SUPPORT OF STATE LEGISLATION FOR EQUITABLE RECESS TIME – 45 MINUTES K-5.
2. Let us know if your organization will support the legislation: provide a response HERE.
3. Check out the details on the newly launched recessforwa.org website!
The Youth Action Team (YAT) had their last meeting of 2022 and will reconvene in 2023!
Members are chipping away at researching and exploring how white-dominated sports can be more inclusive of and welcoming to youth of color. In the last meeting, first cohort members stepped up to the plate to present on their research findings from last year, which was then tied to members’ personal experiences of inclusion and exclusion in sports.
In the new year, the YAT will begin creating recommendations and solutions for their research project!
As part of the Coalition’s recently announced participation in the THRIVE Outside cohort, we hosted a convening last Friday of youth-serving organizations with a goal or interest in outdoor recreation access and equity.
We had about 35 cross-sector organizations (within and outside of the Coalition) come together to meet one another, discuss current issues and barriers for youth to access the outdoors, as well as highlight the great work happening to address these issues – all in preparation for the launch of our new Outdoor Recreation Action Team in early 2023.
Thank you all to those who attended. For those interested in participating, please contact us at playkc@uw.edu.
In response to the Team’s policy & practice recommendations to improve equity of access to facilities, King County Parks property management team will be sharing a draft of their revised facility fee policy in July for feedback.
Team members from Burien, Tukwila, & King County Parks collaborated with Public-Health Seattle-King County to identify parks for the park observation pilot this summer. Public Health hosted a request for applications from community members to conduct observations of parks to gather data on how parks are utilized for physical activity and by whom. Four community members were selected to observe 10 parks in Tukwila, Federal Way, Burien, Des Moines, Seattle, & White Center. The team will collaborate with Public Health in September in reviewing findings and providing feedback on the report. Learn more about the park observation tool, System for Observing Play & Recreation in Communities (SOPARC).