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Causes: Fishing & Hunting, Sports
Mission: Charitable organization that provides support for and fosters commmunication between established youth shooting programs that promote safety, provide education and training to missouri youth and coaches, provide leadership and competition opportunities to missouri youth shooting sports participants.
Programs: To raise money for shooting education, invest it and distribute the earnings in the form of grants to active missouri affiliated youth sport shooting organizations which include many 4-h, ffa and boy scout clubs as well as secondary school shooting teams, ymca shooting programs and various other youth sport shooting educational programs and events. Current participation by missouri youth has reached 23,976 youth in addition to training multiple shotgun coach trainers across the state of missouri.
the alliance facilitates the training of excellent shooting coaches to help assure that youth shooters have qualified leaders as they enjoy and gain proficiency in the sport. To further that training, the alliance hosts an annual statewide youth sport shooting "fall classic" competitive trap shooting match.
assisting missouri youth shooting sports participants and volunteer adult leaders with training, equipment and leadership programs including successful completion of the student air rifle (sar) pilot program which resulted in the implementation of the sar curriculum modeled after the natoinal archery schools program to help realize the organization's goals of making safe shooting sports accessible to all missouri youth. Over 45 instructors have been trained in this program and over 3000 students participated in the pilot program which was completed during 2016.