USACA MMA Scholarship

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United States Amateur Combat Association is starting an MMA scholarship fund. The goal of this scholarship will be to provide gym tuition for at risk children. Applications will be made available in the near future but in the meantime please feel free to email me at mickm@maroonweekly.com. Our aim is to provide at least one scholarship from each event to a gym in that particular city. Examples of an at-risk child could be the following

- A child with poor to failing grades; a child from a single parent home; a child who is not yet in trouble but is “at-risk” of going down the wrong road. There are many factors that put children “at-risk”.

Poor to failing grades

Classified by school as emotionally disturbed

Two year lag in achievement

School expulsion

Learning disability

School suspension

Single parent home

Drug use by student

Elementary school failure

Drug use by family member

Evidence of family conflict

Lack of prosocial (sports or Low IQ or other cognitive impairment

Other outside)activities

Abuse or neglect of any kind

Poor communication between

Arrest

Parents and school

Danger of removal from home by State Dept of child care

Abuse or neglect of a sibling

Either parent charged with failure to protect

Anti-social behavior at or prior to age 10

(major mental disorder such as Truancy

ADD, ADHD, Obsessive/Domestic Violence

Compulsive Disorder, etc.

Evidence of poor family coping skills

Low emotional attachment or Mentally or physically handicapped

or estrangement between family

Parental lack of negative attitude toward crime or criminal behavior

Evidence of a history of “problem behaviors” as defined by family.

Low family income

Gang contact

Recent move or mobility