Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
NEU
increased identification and sense of belonging to a group and community
soziale Inklusion
In the constitution of the team, the group developed the idea to create a logo representing the station area, a jersey model and a team name. These symbols reinforced the identification and sense of belonging to the group, but also to the place and therefore the city. "From the very beginning there was the idea of creating a logo, T-shirts… from the moment you play soccer there is also a team. All the kids in the station, there were 25 jerseys, there were so many! All of us were part of this big group. […] They were somebody, and they had a name. They began to recognize themselves as part of a community. They felt they belonged to a group." (Youth worker 1)
Beschreibung der Aktivität
Participatory Sports-Based Programme for Socially Vulnerable Youth in Northern Italy
The street outreach team consitsing of two youth workers began meeting a group of young people who gathered regularly in the station area. They discovered that soccer was a shared interest and started organising a street soccer activity together. Street soccer became a gateway for engagement and relationship-building: the goup activly participated in organaizing games and began reaching out to the youth workers for advice and support.
Italien
2022 bis 2023
20–25 young people
16-25 years
The paper includes practical implications and guidelines for sports-based programmes that can be useful for designing and implementing similar projects in the future.
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche
Evaluierung der Aktivität
Qualitative Interviewbefragungen (persönlich), Fokusgruppen, Teilnehmende Beobachtung, Sekundäranalyse von Daten, Dokumenten, audiovisuellen Materialien etc.
A qualitative evaluation was conducted from a community psychology perspective. Data were collected through: (1) participant observation during encounters between the youth workers and the adolescents and during the youth workers' team meetings, (2) 5 semi-structured interviews with youth workers and local shop owners, (3) a focus group with the youths (10 participants), and (4) an analysis of 64 local press articles.
20-25 young people, of whom 10 participated in the focus group, 2 youth workers & one coordinator, 2 owners of shops inn the station area
2022 bis 2023