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The list of challenges for recreation professionals is long and ever-changing. With the explosion of travel-team sports—coupled with recreation agencies offering a variety of their own youth-sports programs to meet the needs of a community—space to practice and play games is coveted. And making it all work can pose real problems.
I checked in with a couple of Certified Youth Sports Administrators (CYSAs) to see how their departments tackle the issue to ensure that young athletes have opportunities to practice and play the games they love:
Derik Perez, Recreation Supervisor for the City of Folsom (Calif.), Parks & Recreation Department: We created a Service Delivery Plan in 2007 that consists of policies and procedures to guide the department and the Community Youth Sports Leagues (CYSL) on the implementation of best practices for the following: