Teen Sports and Mental Health
Physical activity has ample and wide-ranging benefits for teen mental health and we wish to provide an opportunity to every adolescent kid to reap those benefits.
Here is a quick recap of all the already known health benefits of engaging in any sport:
Exercise positively impacts levels of serotonin, a chemical that helps regulate mental health.
- Exercise releases endorphins, the body’s natural “happy chemicals.
- Physical activity also stimulates the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, which improves mood.
- The sports environment fosters positive athlete development by facilitating the self-esteem, identity formation and feelings of competence.
- Encouraging positive peer relationships, leadership skills, teamwork, commitment and discipline.
- Encouraging positive peer relationships, leadership skills, teamwork, commitment and discipline.
- Improve the quality of life.
Can sport and physical activity be used as strategies for crime prevention?
- Sport and physical activity can combine with other interventions to reduce crime in particular groups and communities.
- Sport and physical activity can reduce crime by providing accessible, appropriate activities in a supportive social context.
- The design, location and recreational infrastructure contribute to social cohesion.
- Police and communities may witness an immediate benefit that coincides with the duration of the sport or physical activity. Reported levels of assault, malicious damage, shoplifting goods, break and enter or theft may drop.
- Professional sporting clubs involve themselves in communities, with the intention of producing an explicit or an implicit crime prevention outcome.
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Grovemade Empire uses basketball to elevate the physical and mental health of adolescents. We seek to reform global youth crime prevention initiative that builds on the power of sports as a tool for peace.
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