Free "Kids and Sports" workshop Oct. 14
The Franklin PTA is presenting “Kids and Sports,” on Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7:15 p.m. in the school's Multi-Purpose Room. Guest speakers are both former Glenbard West students and football players: Chad Alcorn, Psy.D, psychologist and Director of Adolescent Services at the Central DuPage Pastoral Counseling Center (CDPCC) in Glen Ellyn and Tom Gilardi, Vice President of Human Resources for Mercy Home for Boys in Chicago. The workshop is free and all members of the Glen Ellyn community are invited; fathers and coaches are especially encouraged to attend.
“Kids and Sports,” is aimed at affirming to parents the very positive role that sports can play in their children's’ lives while at the same time encouraging parents, as well as coaches, to help their children learn how to balance the time commitment, high level of involvement required and pressure that often comes with participating in sports.
“Children are able to develop a sense of self and build confidence by having a positive experience with sports,” stated Dr. Alcorn The workshop also focuses on teaching kids about teamwork, how to win and lose gracefully, and how to keep the right perspective in regards to competition with other teams as well as amongst their own team.
As a varsity football player and 1987 graduate of Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn and now as a practicing psychologist in Glen Ellyn, specializing in adolescents issues, Dr. Alcorn has a first-hand and very relevant perspective on the pressures that student athletes face today. As a football scholarship recipient who attended Butler University in Indiana, however, he also understands from personal experience the positive influence that sports can make in a child’s or young adult’s life.
Mr. Gilardi, who has a Masters Degree in Social Work, also grew up and played football in Glen Ellyn. He graduated from Glenbard West in 1986, was captain of the football team and attended Holy Cross University on a football scholarship. Today, Mr. Gilardi works with inner city boys, seeing time and time again how sports are viewed as the only way out for many of these urban teens.
For more information about “Kids and Sports,” contact Christina Riley at 630-469-3965.
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