EMERGENCY – In a crisis call “911” immediately. To assist when considering self-harm call “988” – The National Suicide Intervention Lifeline. 

BMS stands for “Body,” “Mind” and “Spirit.”  Our entire organization is highly supportive of and enthusiastic about sports participation for athletes of all ages.  We strive to assist youth sports advocates to be able to create and maintain safe, healthy, positive competitive environments and experiences for all athletes and their families.  We also strive to combat various negative influences that tend to undermine the wonderful, good aspects of sports participation.

Our main menu drop downs include Body (physical), Mind (mental) and Spirit (metaphysical) resources.  These main categories include numerous resources that contribute to the accomplishment of our primary mission… to contribute to the safety and well-being of athletes and their families.

Our Early Adolescent Program has been created to encourage all adults associated with youth sports to be positive and encouraging in order to best support young athletes.   The BMS Project’s #I tip to youth sports advocates is to “encourage them to talk those they trust.”  Our #2 tip is to “help them to believe in and like who they are.”

While most coaches, parents and youth sport fans conduct themselves in a civil manner, unfortunately a few misguided adults can ruin the youth sports experience for everyone.  As a coach, you have an obligation and responsibility that all young athletes are able to enjoy the experience of youth sports participation.  Even the least youngster on your team deserves the same respect and support as your best, standout athletes.

The use of transformational coaching style versus transactional coaching involves treating each and every young athlete as a person.  Transactional coaching focuses on developing a whole person as well as developing the athletic skills of a child.  While a transactional coaching style lends itself to viewing children as a means to an end… namely, winning.  Both styles are utilized at all levels of competitive activities.  While both styles can contribute to success on the event’s scoreboard, the transformative, whole person approach, can rack up wins on the scoreboard of life.

The BMS Project’s Early Adolescent Four Pillars are designed to protect our young athletes, as well as officials from adult abusive misconduct.  As a result this sort of negative behavior contributes to driving young athletes, coaches and officials out of youth sports participation.

The best thing that you can do as a coach is to let your athletes know how much we all enjoy watching them play.  There are different levels of youth sports participation ranging from recreational to elite competition.  At each level there are stresses and pressures that weigh on elite, as well as participation level athletes.  These stresses can be self imposed, or from external sources.  Even on Early Adolescent athletes peer pressure, societal negativity and parental expectations/criticism can be extremely destructive on their self esteem.

Coaches sometimes unthinkingly exert negative influences on what should be a joyous experience.  At the BMS Project we enthusiastically solicit your commitment to create and maintain safe, healthy, positive environments and experiences for the kids.  We further wish to ask you as a responsible adult to respect our officials at all times.  By working together we can keep our children, their families and officials committed to youth sports.  By so doing you will also contribute to assist the kids to be better people.