I recently sent an email to Robyn Zimmerman, Director of Community Affairs at GHS, to understand our level of involvement with the Greenville School System. Our partnership with the school system is long standing and personally important to me. Here is what she sent me – I was blown away:
GHS and Greenville County School District Partnership
GHS Adopt A School program with Berea Middle School
Spring 2008- current
• Donated over a thousand books over the past two years for the Summer Reading program
• Donated thousands of school supplies and copy paper over the past two years
• Sponsored awards ceremony
• RCP “Think First” program administered during two summer school sessions to high risk students
• GHS athletic trainer assigned to BMS
• Free sports physicals provided to those students on free and reduced lunch
• RCP donation of a new wheelchair
• NGH donated ice chest for school nurse’s office
• Helped start Hispanic PTA meetings
• Safe Kids donated Halloween safety bags and reflective stickers
• Purchased “Red Ribbons” for every student during “Red Ribbon Week” with Greenville Family Partnership to help keep kids off drugs
• GHS employees sponsored 3 homeless students during the holidays
• Sponsored celebratory parties for those students who participated in national “Walk to School Day”
• Sponsored GHS advertisement in the required school folders given to each student
• Sponsored a Beautification Day, painting and planting the entrance of the school
• Introduced the “Girls on Track” program
• Provide corporate and clinical speakers for Career Day
Safe Kids
• Consultant to principals, counselors, social workers, and nurses on safety related topics.
• For 10 years we hosted “Meet Your Health Care Neighbor”, a large seminar and health fair on resources available to schools.
• Safe Kids Upstate has a “Safety Leader” in each of the Elementary Schools and several Middle Schools in Greenville County.
• Through our partnership with Michelin North America ($25,000 yearly sponsorship for the past 5 years), we have safety patrols in all of our elementary schools in Greenville County. We provide yearly training on safety issues, provide assistance in setting up safe car pool lines, and give thousands of dollars worth of safety patrol equipment (vests, stop signs, hats, rain coats, and handbooks) to all 52 participating schools. A recent survey indicated that our safety patrol program develops leaders for tomorrow by reducing tardiness, improving grades, and increasing student participation in community volunteer events. This involves more than 2700 patrols promoting safety each day as students arrive and depart from school.
• Safe Kids Upstate also sponsors “Safe Kids Safe Schools” each year . We now have 42 schools that participate.
• Safe Kids Upstate presents seminars to children and their parents through PTA meetings on bike safety, car seat safety, dangers of ATV and the internet, and many other safety topics.
• Over the past 15 years we have taken Buddy’s Safety House, an interactive home safety exhibit, to more than 300,000 school children.
• Safe Kids Upstate is a sponsor for the yearly Technology Conference that focuses on dangers of the internet.
• During the last 2 years a member of our staff that is a Certified Playground Inspector, has inspected 7 school playgrounds and has provided feedback to principals for improvement.
• Seminars on healthy eating provided to over 2000 students and their teachers.
• Through a grant from Safe Kids Worldwide we have provided sports injury prevention training and resources to school coaches.
Athlete Trainer Network
The Greenville County (GC) ATC’s School Program covers:
(14) High Schools
(18) Middle Schools
(3) Private Schools
The GC ATC Program uses the following staff:
(22) Athletic Trainer Certified (ATC’s)
(15) Orthopedic Surgical Doctors
(2) Primary Care Orthopedic Doctors
(2) Orthopedic Surgical Fellows
(3) Primary Care Orthopedic Fellows
The current yearly investment for the GC ATC Program:
Salaries (ATC’s, (2) ATC Coordinators, (1) Director): $1.4 million
Supplies (Cell Phone): $2,200.00
NOTE: One time investment for the following items:
AED: $28,000.00
Laptops: $44,000.00
School/Field services provided by ATC:
• Supervising all daily practices (week and weekend)
• Injury and Rehabilitation care during the school week
• Coordinating/maintaining injury tracking system (ATS) and database
• Supervising all game day/night activities (home/away)
• Supervising all tournament (weekend/holiday) practices/games
• Develop all policies and procedures relating to injury/sports illness treatment (i.e. Heat exhaustion, wrestling weight certification, baseline – return to play concussion screening)
The following are Educational programs the ATC’s deliver various times during the year for the coaches, parents, and athletes:
• ATC Coaches Clinic – specific coaches only series that relates to topics from injury prevention to sports specific conditioning
• Nutrition Seminar – nutritional information regarding, general healthy guidelines, in-season, out of season, and game day nutrition habits/programs.
• Nutritional Supplementation – information regarding best uses/how to use/what to avoid with supplementation
• Injury Prevention/Performance – series with Steadman Hawkins doctors and Acceleration Sports Institute – various topics
• Athletic Conditioning and Training – series with Acceleration Sports Institute for coaches – sports specific and general
• CPR Certification – certification program for coaches
Specific Medical Services
• On-Site Orthopedic doctor at home/away games
• Bump and Bruise Saturday Clinic – no cost clinic provided to athletes serviced by the ATC program
• Preferred entry into orthopedic clinic (general hours) and SHIFT clinic (after hours Mon-Fri)
Other
• ATC video/article database – the ATC’s and Orthopedic doctors are putting together education (in various forms) that will be provided to schools to provide their coaches, parents, and students reinforcing the above education programs and on/off field services.
• Greenville County Career Day Presentations
• EMS Training Courses
The following are NON-school related programs the ATC’s participate/staff in the Greenville County. These specific programs have been noted because they involve many of the athletes as the ATC GC Program and/or the school system is involved with their function.
• Greenville Park and Recreation Program
• Simpsonville Parks and Recreation Program
NOTE: 16,000 participants ages 5-55, sports involved: Football, Lacrosse, soccer, hockey, rollerblade, curling, tennis, and basketball.
• SAFE Kids
• Southern Conference Tournament (Golf, Cross Country, Tennis)
• AAU Wrestling
• Blade (Jr. Golf Championship)
• Roper Mountain Science Center (Olympic Center)
• Greenville YMCA Athletics (Lacrosse and Soccer)
• Carolina Summer Development Basketball League
• Highland Games
Workforce Development
• GHS and GCSD partner to provide student observations and related student activities to high school juniors and seniors enrolled in a healthcare course/program. These activities are coordinated through the GCSD Department of Career Technology and the GHS Department of Education. The MedEx Academy with Carolina Academy just completed the pilot program this summer. The plan is to expand this program next summer to include students from all district high schools.
GHS and Greenville County School District Partnership
GHS Adopt A School program with Berea Middle School
Spring 2008- current
• Donated over a thousand books over the past two years for the Summer Reading program
• Donated thousands of school supplies and copy paper over the past two years
• Sponsored awards ceremony
• RCP “Think First” program administered during two summer school sessions to high risk students
• GHS athletic trainer assigned to BMS
• Free sports physicals provided to those students on free and reduced lunch
• RCP donation of a new wheelchair
• NGH donated ice chest for school nurse’s office
• Helped start Hispanic PTA meetings
• Safe Kids donated Halloween safety bags and reflective stickers
• Purchased “Red Ribbons” for every student during “Red Ribbon Week” with Greenville Family Partnership to help keep kids off drugs
• GHS employees sponsored 3 homeless students during the holidays
• Sponsored celebratory parties for those students who participated in national “Walk to School Day”
• Sponsored GHS advertisement in the required school folders given to each student
• Sponsored a Beautification Day, painting and planting the entrance of the school
• Introduced the “Girls on Track” program
• Provide corporate and clinical speakers for Career Day
Safe Kids
• Consultant to principals, counselors, social workers, and nurses on safety related topics.
• For 10 years we hosted “Meet Your Health Care Neighbor”, a large seminar and health fair on resources available to schools.
• Safe Kids Upstate has a “Safety Leader” in each of the Elementary Schools and several Middle Schools in Greenville County.
• Through our partnership with Michelin North America ($25,000 yearly sponsorship for the past 5 years), we have safety patrols in all of our elementary schools in Greenville County. We provide yearly training on safety issues, provide assistance in setting up safe car pool lines, and give thousands of dollars worth of safety patrol equipment (vests, stop signs, hats, rain coats, and handbooks) to all 52 participating schools. A recent survey indicated that our safety patrol program develops leaders for tomorrow by reducing tardiness, improving grades, and increasing student participation in community volunteer events. This involves more than 2700 patrols promoting safety each day as students arrive and depart from school.
• Safe Kids Upstate also sponsors “Safe Kids Safe Schools” each year . We now have 42 schools that participate.
• Safe Kids Upstate presents seminars to children and their parents through PTA meetings on bike safety, car seat safety, dangers of ATV and the internet, and many other safety topics.
• Over the past 15 years we have taken Buddy’s Safety House, an interactive home safety exhibit, to more than 300,000 school children.
• Safe Kids Upstate is a sponsor for the yearly Technology Conference that focuses on dangers of the internet.
• During the last 2 years a member of our staff that is a Certified Playground Inspector, has inspected 7 school playgrounds and has provided feedback to principals for improvement.
• Seminars on healthy eating provided to over 2000 students and their teachers.
• Through a grant from Safe Kids Worldwide we have provided sports injury prevention training and resources to school coaches.
Athlete Trainer Network
The Greenville County (GC) ATC’s School Program covers:
(14) High Schools
(18) Middle Schools
(3) Private Schools
The GC ATC Program uses the following staff:
(22) Athletic Trainer Certified (ATC’s)
(15) Orthopedic Surgical Doctors
(2) Primary Care Orthopedic Doctors
(2) Orthopedic Surgical Fellows
(3) Primary Care Orthopedic Fellows
The current yearly investment for the GC ATC Program:
Salaries (ATC’s, (2) ATC Coordinators, (1) Director): $1.4 million
Supplies (Cell Phone): $2,200.00
NOTE: One time investment for the following items:
AED: $28,000.00
Laptops: $44,000.00
School/Field services provided by ATC:
• Supervising all daily practices (week and weekend)
• Injury and Rehabilitation care during the school week
• Coordinating/maintaining injury tracking system (ATS) and database
• Supervising all game day/night activities (home/away)
• Supervising all tournament (weekend/holiday) practices/games
• Develop all policies and procedures relating to injury/sports illness treatment (i.e. Heat exhaustion, wrestling weight certification, baseline – return to play concussion screening)
The following are Educational programs the ATC’s deliver various times during the year for the coaches, parents, and athletes:
• ATC Coaches Clinic – specific coaches only series that relates to topics from injury prevention to sports specific conditioning
• Nutrition Seminar – nutritional information regarding, general healthy guidelines, in-season, out of season, and game day nutrition habits/programs.
• Nutritional Supplementation – information regarding best uses/how to use/what to avoid with supplementation
• Injury Prevention/Performance – series with Steadman Hawkins doctors and Acceleration Sports Institute – various topics
• Athletic Conditioning and Training – series with Acceleration Sports Institute for coaches – sports specific and general
• CPR Certification – certification program for coaches
Specific Medical Services
• On-Site Orthopedic doctor at home/away games
• Bump and Bruise Saturday Clinic – no cost clinic provided to athletes serviced by the ATC program
• Preferred entry into orthopedic clinic (general hours) and SHIFT clinic (after hours Mon-Fri)
Other
• ATC video/article database – the ATC’s and Orthopedic doctors are putting together education (in various forms) that will be provided to schools to provide their coaches, parents, and students reinforcing the above education programs and on/off field services.
• Greenville County Career Day Presentations
• EMS Training Courses
The following are NON-school related programs the ATC’s participate/staff in the Greenville County. These specific programs have been noted because they involve many of the athletes as the ATC GC Program and/or the school system is involved with their function.
• Greenville Park and Recreation Program
• Simpsonville Parks and Recreation Program
NOTE: 16,000 participants ages 5-55, sports involved: Football, Lacrosse, soccer, hockey, rollerblade, curling, tennis, and basketball.
• SAFE Kids
• Southern Conference Tournament (Golf, Cross Country, Tennis)
• AAU Wrestling
• Blade (Jr. Golf Championship)
• Roper Mountain Science Center (Olympic Center)
• Greenville YMCA Athletics (Lacrosse and Soccer)
• Carolina Summer Development Basketball League
• Highland Games
Workforce Development
• GHS and GCSD partner to provide student observations and related student activities to high school juniors and seniors enrolled in a healthcare course/program. These activities are coordinated through the GCSD Department of Career Technology and the GHS Department of Education. The MedEx Academy with Carolina Academy just completed the pilot program this summer. The plan is to expand this program next summer to include students from all district high schools.
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