What happened to USA FH Flagship Program FUNdamental Field Hockey ??? Weekly Report Sep. 16, 2014 SPECIFIC POPULATION(S) THAT HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL FIELD HOCKEY PROGRAM Over 19,000 girls and almost 10,000 boys have participated in Fundamental Field Hockey across 31 states and in the District of Columbia. 213 FFH programs have been placed in schools (K-6). 120 FFH programs have been placed in Community Centers. 54 FFH programs have been placed in Recreation Leagues. 22 FFH programs have been placed on College Campuses. Many of you have read the report from the Exec. Director in which the Youth Development Manager provided the above info which is nothing new, as 6 months earlier at the March Board meeting the same numbers were reported. It is nice and informative as to who benefitted from FFH but one serious question was not put forward: •What benefit did USA FH get from these 409 programs run over 2 years? •What did USA FH get in return for having spent close to a million dollars? •Was the most important objective achieved which was according the Exec. Dir. a continuum of a pipeline to learn train, and compete in the games from the elementary years through post collegiate times? •Did USA FH follow up on the FFH initiative this and avoided failure as previous programs experienced? •Out of 213 programs in K-6 schools, how many schools have continued to have field hockey as part of the PE program? •How many dropped out and are a one off program? •Do schools which embraced field hockey organized a competition within the school district.? •What happened to the 174 programs which have been placed in community centers and recreation leagues? •What happened and what was the outcome of the 22 programs placed on College Campuses? and now for the most important question for USA FH: •How many children, boys and girls, have been taken over by clubs and are now continuing to play field hockey as their sport of choice. All the above question have one thing in common: Accountability !!! Little do we know how FFH fared in 2014 as USA FH was extremely stingy with providing progress reports. For the board meeting in March 2014 the following numbers for 2014 were presented: •25 shipped, 21 pending and 37 interested a month later the following numbers were published •15 approved , 10 pending , 45 interested This confusion only affirms that the goal for 2014 of 250 programs per year with min. 15,000 children among them 7,350 boys will not be reached but that is only speculation and USA FH certainly will provide the details any moment as they have done so in the past two years. As reported in another post, 3 weeks after publishing the above numbers, the Development Manager for FFH which was hailed as a smashing success, a home run, fantastic growth.......was given another assignment with in USA FH with a customary Thank you for a job well done! I cannot speak for you but I am pretty upset when thinking about the monies spent by USA FH on this program which must reach in excess of 1.2 million and as a member not seeing any accountability. USA FH considers its organization as membership driven........where are the members who want to see accountability???
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:16:19 +0000
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