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Don Hellison a is a professor in the Departments of Educational Psychology and Kinesiology at UIC. This role involves program development, delivery, and evaluation for underserved youth as well as the professional preparation of pre-service and in-service teachers and youth workers who work in these programs. These programs use taking responsibility as a framework for teaching physical activities in in-school and after-school programs. Since the broad goals of this approach - e.g., respect for the rights and feelings of others, self-motivation, cooperation, self-direction, and helping others (e.g., leadership) - are relevant for working with kids in many settings, workshops also have been requested by teachers and youth workers who do not work with physical activities. Processes and outcomes of this work are disseminated in publications, presentations, and workshops across the country and in several other countries.The TPSR Alliance, co-directed with Gloria Balague, is the center for these activities (tprs-alliance.org). Don spent 16 years doing this work on the west coast and has been at UIC for the past 20 years. He has been recognized for this work most recently (2008) by receiving the Gulick Medal, the most prestigious award given by the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. He also also been the recipient of the International Olympic Committee President’s Prize and five other national awards. His latest book is Teaching responsibility through physical activity, published in 2003 by Human Kinetics. Don can be contacted by telephone at 312-335-0875 and by e-mail at hellison@uic.edu.