A Call to Address Youth Isolation During the COVID-19 Crisis

​The sport-based youth development (SBYD) community emphasizes the need to support community building and preservation of connections between coach-mentors and youth during the pandemic.


Over one billion young people are currently experiencing a disruption in their ability to go to school and participate in extracurricular activities. This crisis will not only interrupt classroom learning, but will also create a sense of isolation that will spread more widely and quickly than the pandemic itself.

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