The Prime Time Games®:  It’s Inclusion, but Who’s Including Who?

Authors

  • Peter Straus Team Prime Time

Keywords:

Sports, disabilities, peers, inclusion

Abstract

The Prime Time Games® (PTG®) is a full-inclusion after-school sports model that gives two underserved populations, youth with disabilities and low-income youth, the opportunity to compete together in the only high school sports league of its kind in the country. It was developed by Team Prime Time, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California. The success of the PTG® model has allowed it to expand to schools in other parts of the U.S.  This paper describes the goals, origins, and expansion of the PTG®, and the involvement of the community in its support. The paper concludes with examples of how the PTG® model may be implemented in other parts of the country. 

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