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  • Checking the blind spot

    Blair Stenvick

    July 25, 2018 |

    InvestigateWest |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In Oregon, there is a law in place that helps guide public school officials in how to react to a child with a possible concussion, but that law doesn't address what to do if a child suffers a concussion during private competitions. To address this loophole, concussion experts as well as a skier that had been impacted by this blind spot, led a legal fight that eventually allowed the expansion of this law to also cover "organized youth sports that take place outside public schools."

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  • Parents Behaving Badly: A Youth Sports Crisis Caught on Video

    Bill Pennington

    July 18, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    New supports are being put into place for the referees of youth sports leagues in order to stop or punish harassment. These include signs, monitors in the stands, and a Facebook page that publicly shames out of control patients.

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  • How Max's injury became Max's Law

    Lee van der Voo

    May 23, 2018 |

    InvestigateWest |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    After a high school football player in Oregon was concussed in a game, his condition elevated to a traumatic brain injury when he was sent back in to play without proper rest. To combat this lapse in judgment from happening again, the state passed legislation that "set out guidelines that a coach must follow in the event that he or she suspects a player has received a blow to the head or body and then exhibits signs or symptoms consistent with a concussion."

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  • Iceland has largely kicked teen drinking. What can it teach other countries?

    Sara Miller Llana

    December 29, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    In the late 1990s, Iceland had both a high rate of teen alcohol abuse and a lackadaisical attitude towards that abuse. Responses to these issues included instituting a curfew, investment in after school activities, and programs to change parent attitudes. The result has been a large decrease in alcohol use among teens and a strengthening of family relationships.

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  • How a Boy's Concussion Death Changed British Sports

    Ken Belson

    December 13, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Rosewell

    After a young rugby player died in Northern Ireland, his family and a brain expert set about to establish concussion guidelines, looking in part to the United States.

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