Athletes Archives - Grassroots Health

From Our Local Community to National Spaces – Learning and Sharing at Professional Conferences

Grassroots Health has had a busy and impactful fall semester! With over 800 middle school students in health education programs, the training and management of over 100 student-athlete volunteers, sessions for parents and caregivers (Grassroots Fam), and preparing for our culminating end-of-semester event, Grassroots Connect, we’ve managed to take time to engage in professional learning and share more about the

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Temple University Athletes Train as Health Educators in Grassroots Health first Philadelphia training!

Grassroots Health hosted its first-ever student-athlete training at Temple University this past weekend at the Pearson and McGonigle Halls on Temple’s campus! Amidst the Temple Women’s Basketball game on Saturday and the Philadelphia Eagles football game on Sunday, we still had a great group of athletes show up to training ready to play games and participate in discussions about

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Grassroots Health Trains 88 DC College Athletes to Serve as Health Educators

On January 29, Grassroots Health concluded the final session of its 16-hour “Athletes to Coaches” training course. This course is designed to equip college athletes with the knowledge and skills necessary to become volunteer health education facilitators in DC schools. The newly-trained college athlete volunteers, now “Grassroots Coaches”, are ready to take on their role as health promoters in the

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Grassroots Goes to the American School Health Association National Conference

Sharing Grassroots Health’s Best Practices Nationwide In July, program coordinators Lara Negrón Ocasio and Treniyyah Anderson traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to represent Grassroots Health and connect with lifelong educators, public health officials, and passionate community members at the American School Health Association (ASHA) Annual Conference. They shared Grassroots Health’s best practices, and engaged with other passionate people from across

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Building Connection and Growing Skills in Summer 2022

This summer has been an exciting time for the Grassroots Health team. We’ve had a busy few months growing professionally and preparing for the upcoming school year! Five Fellows, Five Weeks, One Mission This summer, the goal of the Grassroots Health 5-week training fellow program was to provide student-athlete facilitators with the skills and knowledge necessary to recruit, train, and

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Giving Back Became a Way of Life for The Howard Women’s Lacrosse Team

by Alania James Talia Coryat, a rising senior at Howard University, has used her time as a college student to give back to the DC community. She is a leader among her peers in an organization called Grassroots. Grassroots trains hundreds of athletes, like Talia, to become coaches and natural leaders. Those athletes return to train upcoming fellows and pilot

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TGP Welcomes Program Coordinators, Treniyyah Anderson and Lara Negrón Ocasio

Grassroots is thrilled to announce two new staff members, Treniyyah Anderson and Lara Negrón Ocasio. Treniyyah and Lara will be TGP’s first ever Program Coordinators as the organization plans for a return to in person programs this fall and continues to grow exponentially in DC! They will seek to both increase the quality of TGP programming in middle schools and

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#MyTGPstory: Juice

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy49Ydwv2oQ&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Juliana Saling, also known as Juice, is a Master Trainer at TGP and was a part of the second cohort of Master Trainer Interns during the summer of 2019. She is a Sophomore from Maplewood, New Jersey, and is majoring in Business Administration at American University with a specialization in Ethical Business Management and Consulting. Her goal is to

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Goodbye and Thank You to Limbani and Lucia

One of our amazing 2018-19 GHC fellows and our incredible Curriculum Development Intern are moving on from TGP. Their contributions to our success and growth this year cannot be overstated, and we are so grateful to them for all of their hard work. We're so excited to see what they accomplish in the future! We interviewed Limbani and Lucia about

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I Have a CONNECTion

They have done it! The students have completed the Grassroots curriculum and now have the health knowledge to begin sharing information and make healthy personal decisions. It’s time for Grassroots Connect! This is a special event where the Grassroots family celebrates students for putting their all into the 8-week health education programs, and the event also gives them health resources

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Development of TGP’s New Mental Health Curriculum with American University Student-Athlete, Swezen Kizito

Written by: Nea’la Prue Interviews done by: Nea’la Prue & Myaira Arnold For 10 years now, Grassroots (TGP) has been successful in facilitating school-based health education programs and increasing sexual health knowledge for sixth grade students in the Washington D.C area. In 2018, TGP launched a nutrition and physical health curriculum for the same students to receive when they reached

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Going from Athlete 2 Coach

Written by: Myaira Arnold, TGP Community Intern Interviews by: Myaira Arnold & Nea'la Prue, TPG Community Interns Athlete2Coach (A2C) trainings are a practice that all student-athletes volunteering with Grassroots (TGP) must go through before being facilitating in school programs. Grassroots trains student-athletes to facilitate discussions around Sexual Health, Nutrition & Physical Health, and soon Mental Health in DC middle schools.

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Going Pro in Something Other Than Your Sport: TGP Career Night

TGP Athletes discuss future careers with Tom Rose, Ugwechi Amadi, Richard Livingstone, and Lydia Abebe (Robbie Haben not pictured) Written by: Swezen Kizito, a member of the men's soccer team at American University and a TGP Master Trainer. Navigating a career path is often a daunting process. No matter what the intended profession or professions are, there are always going to be

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AU Athlete Kira Flaherty Checks In After Grassroots Connect

The following reflection was written by Grassroots Coach Kira "Kir" Flaherty, a senior on the Women's Soccer Team at American University. Grassroots Connect is the event coaches, students and parents all look forward to following the 8-week Grassroots programs. Although the weekly Grassroots sessions are always fun, nothing tops Grassroots Connect! There is a lot of work that goes into the

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So What Now?: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The following post is written by Howard student-athletes Simone Counts ‘18 and Spencer Kelly ‘19, individual perspectives of being African-American and living in Washington, D.C. where HIV/AIDS is the highest percentage of affected people in the country. In order to understand the severity of a problem, one must first recognize it within their own community. For years African Americans have

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Wrap Up: Student-Athlete Networking Night

TGP Brings back Athlete Networking Nights in 2017-2018 by Ruvimbo Mushavi, Program Manager It is nearing the end of the Fall semester of the 2017-2018 academic year, and one thing is for sure, college students are already on the lookout for summer internship opportunities. As part of Grassroots’s efforts to provide student-athlete volunteers with the professional and leadership development they

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TGP Testifies at the DC Council Hearing on Health

On May 5th, TGP's Monique Miller, Spencer Kelly, and Kayla Giger testified at the DC Council's hearing on health. See below for a video of their testimonies and a reflection on the experience from Kayla (Georgetown Rowing '18). Kayla's Reflection: This month I was able to participate in a DC Department of Health budget oversight hearing to advocate for TGP.

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TGP Athletes Attend Special Screening of MTV’s “Shuga: Down South”

Guest Post by TGP Athlete Spencer Kelly (Howard U, Men's Tennis) On March 27, Grassroots invited me to attend a MTV Premiere I didn’t know much about. I was excited to see and hear something that was new to me. I understood Grassroots advocated about HIV/AIDS awareness and sexual health, but I never really knew that there were several other

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TGP Director and Athletes Testify at DC Council Public Hearing

Marie Rudolph and student-athletes Ebony McKeever and Erin Boudreau wrote and delivered a testimony discussing the impact that Grassroots has had in DC and on our lives for the City Council Performance Oversight Hearing. We testified in front of Chairman Vincent C. Gray and members of the Committee on Health on Friday, February 17, 2017. Erin “Boody” Boudreau (GWU Soccer

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TGP Welcomes First Full Time Staff Members!

We are only one week away from welcoming our first ever full time staff into the TGP office. (more…)

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Grassroot Leaders Take Over Disney World

“I was happy that I was selected to be a part of the Leadership Team, and I am ready to use what I learned this weekend to help make Grassroots even better!”- Diana Sainvil (Gtown ’14). (more…)

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Grassroot Leaders Go to Disney World

Grassroot leaders have fun with hats at Disney World.

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