Taylor Hooton Foundation“Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs

(APEDs) Educational Programs”

Don HootonDonald Hooton Jr.Clint Faught

Educating America’s Youth about the Dangers of Anabolic Steroids and Appearance and Enhancing drugs

2010

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Agenda

Overview of Taylor Hooton FoundationMission and VisionPartners and Board of DirectorsHow serious is this epidemicWhy are kids using APEDsOur Hoots Chalk Talk Program

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Who was Taylor Hooton?

Taylor Hooton, a 16-year old, 6' 2", 180 pound, muscular high school athlete was told by his high school coach that "he needed to be bigger" in order to effectively compete in his senior year. Like others on his team, Taylor decided to take a short cut to help him achieve his objective.

Unfortunately in his efforts to "get bigger", Taylor was unaware of the depression he would experience as a result of using anabolic steroids.

On July 15, 2003, Taylor took his own life.

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Taylor Hooton Foundation

Formed in 2004 in memory of Taylor E. Hooton, a 17 year old high school student athlete

Founded by the family of Taylor when they became aware of the magnitude of a growing problem among high school students across the country – the widespread use of appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs) Knew that parents and coaches were generally unaware of the real dangers of this powerful drug.

Taylor Hooton foundation was formed to change this through education

KidsAdult influencers

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THF Mission and Vision

•Educate America’s youth and their adult influencers about the dangers of anabolic steroids and Appearance & Performance Enhancing Drugs (APEDs)

Mission

• Eliminate the use of APEDs in our nation’s high schools and middle schools

Vision

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Board of Directors (a partial list)

•Chairman, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Banned Substance Committee

Gary Wadler, MD

•CEO - American College of Sports Medicine

Jim Whitehead•Exe

cutive Director - National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA)

Eve Becker-Doyle

•Former Strategic Director – White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Rob Housman

•Former Asst. Secretary of Labor, former leader in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Neil Romano

•Renowned NFL HOF Player, leads the “I Play Clean Campaign”

Dick Butkus

•Retired Head Athletic Trainer - St. Louis Cardinals

Gene Gieselmann

“Delivering Expertise on the Topic of APEDs”

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Some of Our Partners

Recommended in Senator Mitchell’s

Report to the Commissioner of MLB

Program delivered in every MLB Park

each summer

Endorsed by Dick Butkus

. . . . and more

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How Big is the Problem?

Consensus ~4-6% of US HS students nationally have used

anabolic steroids

~1 million kids

6.8% males / 5.3%

females*

Median age of initiation:

15

Fastest growing user

group is young girls!

7th – 9th grades

*CDC Youth Risk Survey

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Teen steroid usage on the rise

• 1 in 45 high school students

1993

• 1 in 27 high school students

1999 • 1 in 16 high school students admit using anabolic steroids

Today

“A recent study showed 6.1 percent of high school students used anabolic steroids with numbers appearing to be on the rise. . . “

Dr. Teri McCambridge, American Academy of Pediatrics (Reuters, 3/11/2009)

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Why do kids use APEDs?

Improve Physical Appearance 65.2%

To Feel Better About Myself 48.5%

Improve Athletic Performance 40.9%

Intimidate/Fight Better 18.2%

Treat Illness/Injury 3.8%

Participants could select more than one reason.Source: Tom Hildebrand, PsvD, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, 2008

What needs to be done to address this problem?

Education is the primary weapon that we should be using to fight this battle First priority: teach our kids about the dangers of using APEDs, to provide them with the knowledge that they need make an intelligent decision not to use APEDs

Recent studies indicate 84% of our kids have never had a parent, coach, or teacher talk with them about dangers of these drugs! This is not just an athletic problem - all students need to be educated on this subject matter.

Adult influencers must be trainedCoachesAthletic TrainersPhysiciansParents

Education

Teach our kids about the dangers of using APEDS

Through education

Train Influencers

Coaches Athletic Trainers Physicians Parents

Increased knowledge

and decreased

usage

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Education vehicles

Hoot’s Chalk Talk

In-auditorium or in-gym program

Hoot’s Chalk Talk e-learning Program(s)• Visual Audio Training• Online Certification

THF is the ONLY organization in the US focused on this topicOnly education programs of their kind in the USTHF invests more in APEDs education than all of the Federal Government

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What is a Hoot’s Chalk Talk?Multimedia assembly program

Schools, conferences, coaches meetings, any large gathering of youth, parents, or coaches

One hour in lengthSpeaker, PowerPoint, and videoPost-assembly Q&A sessionLeave behind classroom curriculum

Designed to raise the awareness and provide education on the subject of the use and abuse of APEDs by the youth of America

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Topics CoveredWhat are anabolic

steroids?Where do they

come from?How many kids are

taking steroids?

Why are kids taking steroids?

Is this just a student athlete problem?

What quantities of these drugs are kids

taking?

What motivates our youth to feel

pressured to use these drugs?

A deeper look at supplements – Are they safe to take?

Physical, psychological, and internal dangers of using these drugs

What can we do about this problem?

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Proven training methods

Presented to:Over 110,000 high school students, parents, and coaches nationwideUSOC athletes and USOC board of directorsAmerican Assoc. of Family Physicians, American College of Sports Medicine, US Dept of Education / Nat’l Drug Educators, WADA, USADA, and more

Presented in every MLB Stadium in partnership with Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers and MLB Strength Coaches for the past 3 years

In addition, Minor League Ball parks, Pro Fast Pitch League, and others

Proven test results via testing by SAMHSA

Our Foundation

would like to drive

Appearance and

Performance

Enhancing Drug

awareness and

education programs

into schools all

across the country