| Sumario: | The Kinesiology Career Club (KCC) is a physical activity programextension of Hellison's Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model (TPSR). The programruns during second period physical education in a low performing inner city high school. Approximately 12-15 youth are selected to participate in the program each semester. The physical activity content is a combination of martial arts, weight training, dance, and fitness activities. A university professor runs the program with the help of six to eight undergraduate kinesiology students. The primary goal of KCC is to help youth envision and explore their positive possible futures. The more specific goals include: a balance of hoped-for-selves and feared-selves, as suggested by the theory of possible selves; enhance TPSR goals of respect, effort, goal-setting, and leadership skills in the program and the connection of these goals as important for their futures; and chart the necessary steps first to becoming a professional in kinesiology followed by the necessary steps for their own careers of choice. The purpose of this article is to describe the four KCC phases, the youth workbook, and the service learning component that addresses how undergraduate kinesiology students mentor the youth within the program
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