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Grants Narrative and Timeline
Always start your grant application process by writing down exactly what objectives and guidelines the
grant is based upon. On a separate list, write down your objectives and goals, needs and budget items.
Now, the fun begins. Translate what you want into statements that sound like what the grantor seeks.
You must match their agenda. No matter how great your program might be, it is their agenda that must be met.
Our comprehensive research material begins on our RESEARCH page.
We are always available to help you. Be specific in your request so we can provide the best assistance.
What can we say in a grant to improve our chances for funding?
Program Design:
There is a wealth of information available on our RESEARCH page. Quote the sections,
with credit to the source, as needed in your grant applications.
Since the most rapid rate of neural maturation is between 0 and 12 years of age, a key
consideration in school-based fitness programs is how to capitalize on the closing window
of opportunity to train movement - while providing the auxiliary benefits of that training
to the academic environment. Children will respond favorably to complex and dynamic exercises
that don't merely draw on the nervous system but challenge it, stimulating neuromuscular
adaptations. This sort of training also helps keep kids safe on the sports playing field.
Generation FIT and interactive dance video games provide exactly this sort of mind-body training. Without
movement training intervention, children do not master complex motor skills until around
ages 10-12 (Harris 2000)
Balance and body awareness are highly trainable. Balance skills improve rapidly in the first decade.
Across all ages, balance training overloads a variety of "software" that the muscles rely on to detect,
read, process and command biomechanical adjustments. Children whose lack of balance skills creates
insecurity and lack of confidence in sports and games will benefit in both physical and social areas
through agility and balance training opportunities.
To capitalized on the peak rate of neural maturation, skilled movement should be taught at a young age.
This doesn't mean sport-specific skills, rather movement skills useful for fitness, for wellness, for
life. Neural based exercise that targets balance, movement skills, patterning, agility and reactivity
are preferred. Efficient movement skills like these ask for multi-directional patterns and agility.
(Young, McDowell&Scarlett 2001) Training in neural-based movement skills accelerates children's
coordination-learned patterns they will draw upon in future learning (reading, math, creative tasks) and sport.
Adirim, T., and Cheng, T. 2003 Overview of injuries in the young athlete. Sports medicine, 33 (1), 75-81
Harris, S.S. 2000. Readiness to participate in sports. In J.A. Sullivan & S.J. Anderson (Eds), Care of
the Young Athlete: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics (pp 137-48).
Rosemont, IL: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Young, W.B., McDowell, M.H. & Scarlett, B.J. 2001. Specificity of spring and agility training methods.
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 15 (3), 315-9.
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