Parks and Rec director, Jason Schaitz, shares guidelines for investing in staff training and education to make your team the best it can be. Your program staff are your most valuable asset. You should invest ...
Judi Christy, the director of marketing and communication at the Akron Area YMCA, shares her insights on supporting youth mental health with breathing exercises and more. When my children were young, Fred Rogers and Barney ...
Parks and Rec director, Jason Schaitz shares tips on how to handle conflict among campers. Regardless of how much time you put into acclimating your campers to life at camp or within a child care ...
Parks and Rec director, Jason Schaitz shares six tips for effective communication in youth sports programs. In order to run a program at a high level, you have to be an effective communicator. Keeping your ...
Two ways to make your next job posting attractive to top talent. Think about the very beginning of the dating process. There is a moment when your view of this new person might change. I ...
The dos and don’ts of new member onboarding for 2023. With the start of each new year, many motivated individuals will rush to community centers and gyms with the hopes of being able to accomplish ...
Judi Christy, the director of marketing and communication at the Akron Area YMCA, shares her experience learning how to play pickleball. I have never been a person who jumps into fads. I did not race ...
Managing risk is never fun but it’s essential in preventing a catastrophic incident that could cause serious harm and shut your recreation program down for good. Risk management is not just a hazard or physical ...
For community recreation centers, facilitating human connection is the key to post-pandemic recovery. Although most people in the community recreation industry have shifted to talking about COVID-19 in the past tense, we know the pandemic ...