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904.202.4332
3563 Philips Highway
Building E, Suite 502
Jacksonville, FL 32207
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Dedicated to Youth Sports Safety Through Awareness, Advocacy, and Injury Prevention |
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Hello and Happy New Year. Let's get the challenges of 2020 behind us and spring into 2021 with a renewed sense of excitement. Welcome to our JSMP newsletter, as a New Years Resolution, we have a commitment to publish a newsletter every other month in 2021 beginning with our January edition. The goal of our newsletter will be to highlight recent accomplishments and provide announcements of upcoming events.
The Jacksonville Sports Medicine Program is dedicated to youth sports safety through awareness, advocacy and injury prevention. We are a non-profit advocacy program supported through local health care, educational and sports agencies. The JSMP has been active in our northeast Florida region for over 36 years.
Together we are making Jacksonville a safer place to play
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Thanks to the Jacksonville Jaguars, our area high school athletic trainers now have access to a Clorox Total 360 Sanitation System that was donated to the JSMP. This special system is available for use by Certified Athletic Trainers in our local schools as they work hard to keep their athletic training facilities clean and germ-free. As a part of this exciting announcement, the DCPS & Project 17 Certified Athletic Trainers were recently honored at a Jaguars game with a special video presentation. As frontline healthcare professionals, athletic trainers serve as critical resources in our schools to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and other contagious germs.
Use of the Clorox Total 360 System is not limited to Project17 or the Duval County Schools, if you are an athletic trainer in the high school setting in our region and wish to use this machine, at no cost, to sanitize your athletic training facility, please contact our office at 904-202-5320 to reserve your time.
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Bo McDougal, LAT, ATC Head Athletic Trainer for Paxon School for Advanced Studies in the DCPS uses the Clorox Total 360 to sanitize his athletic training facility. |
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Sports Safety Educational Video |
In the works: In cooperation with the Florida Alliance for Sports Medicine (FASMed) and the Florida High School Athletic Association Sports Medicine Advisory Committee (FHSAA), we look forward to the production of a special educational video designed to promote a state-wide, sports safety message. The initial concept and draft of this project originated with our Project17 athletic trainers, Michael Davis, LAT, ATC at Atlantic Coast HS and Cody Gresham, LAT, ATC at Fletcher HS with special influence by Mrs. Laurie Giordano from Fort Myers, FL. The video will include discussions from physicians, athletic trainers and parents. As the final product becomes available, look for us to post a link on our jaxsmp.com website.
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JSMP GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT |
Orthopedic Surgeon,
Nemours Children's Health System
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Vice-Chairman
Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville
Family Practice - Sports Medicine
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Victor DeRienzo, PT
Chief Operating Officer
JSMP Governing Board - Secretary
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Mr. Michael Aubin, President Wolfson Children's Hospital
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Member: JSMP Governing Board
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Dr. Jerry Bridgham, Chief Medical Officer, Wolfson Children's Hospital
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Treasurer: JSMP Governing Board
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Founding Partner Recognition |
As an original Founding Partner of the Jacksonville Sports Medicine Program (JSMP), Wolfson Children’s Hospital (WCH) has been a major force behind the JSMP for over 36 years. WCH President Michael Aubin and Chief Medical Officer Jerry Bridgham, MD, serve on the JSMP Governing Board. The leadership received through our partnership with Wolfson Children’s Hospital provides significant credibility to our safety mission and includes important connections to the services and programs offered through the Players Center for Child Health. Both Mr. Aubin and Dr. Bridgham have served our Board since 2012 and are committed to our vision of making Jacksonville a safer place to play.
The strong commitment of Wolfson Children’s Hospital to our program includes many in-kind services and the help of hospital staff members who serve as volunteers and clinical contacts for our membership. WCH also offers a very generous financial commitment to our program operations officially as a Sustaining Partner.
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NEW: LIVE Stream and Podcast
Coming soon
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As our program looks to embrace the new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to place education as our primary advocacy effort and look forward to launching new ways to remotely connect with our student-athletes, coaches, parents and sports medicine providers. Recently, we have begun our prep work to create live stream and podcast sessions on youth sports safety. As early as January 2021, you will be able to download our first sessions. Watch your email, social media, or our website for further announcements and options for joining our conversations. Our traditional JSMP Sports Injury Symposium will introduce a COVID -19 revised format in 2021. We look forward to bringing you a variety of topics on a monthly basis this year that will feature local, regional and national speakers. Topics will be unique and informative. Special attention to address the CE and EBP reporting requirements that will be due this year for athletic trainers. |
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Message from the Executive Director,
Robert Sefcik, MS, LAT, ATC
Thank you for taking a few minutes to read our January 2021 newsletter. As a program, one of the first goals of 2021 is to improve our communications. This newsletter becomes a way to reach our membership and keep you informed of our upcoming events, program accomplishments, special programs and program needs. Our program seeks to involve a multidisciplinary audience of student-athletes, parents, coaches, athletic trainers, physicians, school administrators, business leaders, and our community-at-large as a community agency. Together we are making our region one of the safest for our student-athletes by creating awareness and advocacy for sports-related injuries. We are keeping kids on-the-field by working with our schools on injury prevention tactics and early injury interventions. We all have heard the adage: “It takes a village,” certainly that resonates in our mission as well. Our community has taken a giant leap forward in supporting our goal of creating comprehensive athletic training programs within our schools; these programs are working with kids and coaches daily to prevent sports injuries and have provided influence to other schools to expand athletic training services in their schools for the health and safety for all kids playing sports. Together our community has unified to provide the best high school sports experience possible for our community youth. We still have a ways to go, but together we will achieve these best-practice standards.
Uniquely, as a nonprofit community organization, the Jacksonville Sports Medicine program invites all of our local Jacksonville area health care institutions to collaborate in our mission to keep our kids safe by implementing high standards for health care in school sports. Currently, the JSMP has partnerships with 3 key health care institutions (Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Nemours Children’s Health Care and Brooks Rehabilitation) as well as the Duval County Medical Society. In addition, our program physician membership includes representatives of several other health care organizations. Our athletic trainer membership spans all five northeast Florida counties and specifically includes the Duval County Public Schools.
We are proud to receive weekly phone calls from throughout the state and the nation from other communities looking to duplicate our community collaborative within their region. Because our program does not offer clinical services and invites all healthcare organizations to collaborate on sports safety initiatives, it has earned recognition as the leading source of youth sports safety in our area.
As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain on high alert by implementing strategic safeguards for contagious disease and sports injury in our schools. Our program also faces a critical juncture and invites our community to unite further to ensure continued safe athletic participation for our community youth. Ways to participate:
Become a member by attending one of our events.
For more information, visit our website www.jaxsmp.com, contact us by email or contact our office at 904.202.5320 or 904.202.4332
Sincerely,
Robert Sefcik, MS, LAT, ATC
Executive Director
Jacksonville Sports Medicine Program
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