scholarly journals Intersectoral Action to Enhance the Social Inclusion of Socially Vulnerable Youth through Sport: An Exploration of the Elements of Successful Partnerships between Youth Work Organisations and Local Sports Clubs

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Hermens ◽  
Sabina Super ◽  
Kirsten Verkooijen ◽  
Maria Koelen
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Intersectoral Action ◽  
Vulnerable Youth ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Sports Activities

Research shows that participation in sport is positively related to self-esteem, self-regulation skills, and social inclusion. As socially vulnerable youngsters participate less frequently in sports activities than their average peers, youth work organisations try to guide their clients (i.e., socially vulnerable youngsters) to local sports clubs and inclusive sports activities. Inclusive sports activities, however, cannot be provided by youth work organisations alone. Therefore, in the Netherlands, intersectoral action involving both youth work organisations and local sports clubs has emerged. Because youth workers and stakeholders in local sports clubs are not used to collaborating with each other, we explored the factors that contribute to the quality and performance of such intersectoral actions. On the basis of five open interviews with youth workers and three focus groups with stakeholders in local sports clubs, we described factors relating to the organisation of intersectoral action among youth workers and local sports clubs that are preconditions for the success of this specific type of intersectoral action.

scholarly journals The Social Impact of Digital Youth Work: What Are We Looking For?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Pawluczuk ◽  
Gemma Webster ◽  
Colin Smith ◽  
Hazel Hall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Digital Youth

Digital youth work is an emerging field of research and practice which seeks to investigate and support youth-centred digital literacy initiatives. Whilst digital youth work projects have become prominent in Europe in recent years, it has also become increasingly difficult to examine, capture, and understand their social impact. Currently, there is limited understanding of and research on how to measure the social impact of collaborative digital literacy youth projects. This article presents empirical research which explores the ways digital youth workers perceive and evaluate the social impact of their work. Twenty semi-structured interviews were carried out in Scotland, United Kingdom, in 2017. All data were coded in NVivo 10 and analysed using thematic data analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Two problems were identified in this study: (1) limited critical engagement with the social impact evaluation process of digital youth work projects and its outcomes, and (2) lack of consistent definition of the evaluation process to measure the social impact/value of digital youth work. Results of the study are examined within a wider scholarly discourse on the evaluation of youth digital participation, digital literacy, and social impact. It is argued that to progressively work towards a deeper understanding of the social value (positive and negative) of digital youth engagement and their digital literacy needs, further research and youth worker evaluation training are required. Recommendations towards these future changes in practice are also addressed.

scholarly journals Economic Institutions and Social Progress

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 350-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Fehder ◽  
Michael E. Porter ◽  
Scott Stern
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
And Performance

Combining data from the social progress index and measures of economic institutions and performance, our analysis focuses on how changes in economic institutions and performance are related to subsequent changes in social progress (noneconomic dimensions of societal performance). We document a positive relationship between improved economic performance and subsequent social progress improvements, a separate impact of improved economic institutions on aspects of social progress that involve individual investment (such as education and health), and a noisy relationship between economic factors and those aspects of social progress related to issues of individual freedom and social inclusion.

scholarly journals ‘Being church’: The Social and Spiritual Purposes and Impacts of Christian Detached Youth Work

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Naomi Thompson ◽  
James Ballantyne
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Starting Position ◽  
Youth Worker ◽  
The Social

In this paper, we explore the social and spiritual purposes and impacts of Christian detached youth work in theukthrough an exploration of relevant literature and through qualitative research with a small sample of youth workers. The article finds, both in the literature and the primary research, that the development of relationships between youth worker and young person is the most significant purpose and impact of Christian detached youth work. These relationships are used to facilitate impacts, both social and spiritual, in detached youth work, but are also seen as an important impact in themselves. The paper argues that social and spiritual purposes and impact are fluid and overlapping within Christian detached youth work, that institutional agendas are given low priority, and that youth workers aim to start their work from the young people’s own starting position rather than an imposed agenda. This equalising of power and negotiation of mutual relationships is largely considered, by both the literature explored and the youth workers in our primary research, to enhance the uniqueness and effectiveness of detached youth work in achieving its particular social and spiritual impacts.

scholarly journals Actividades físicas–recreativas e inclusión: Una experiencia con adultos parapléjicos de la Asociación Asopléjica

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4.1) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Johanna Ladinez Garces ◽  
Giceya de la Caridad Maqueira Caraballo
Keyword(s):  
Dance Therapy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Activity System ◽  
Recreational Activities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The City ◽  
Adapted Sports ◽  
Sports Activities

The care of people with physical-motor limitations (paraplegics), given the variability of cases, etiologies, forms of classification, level of commitment and performance that occurs between one paraplegic person and another, make the inclusion processes continue to constitute a great challenge. In an observation carried out in the Asoplegic Association of the city of Guayaquil, it was detected that regardless of the programs that are developed, there are limitations for the practice of physical-recreational activities by the paraplegic adults that make up the association, negatively affecting their performance and social inclusion. The research that is presented aims to: Provide a system of physical-recreational activities conducive to the inclusion of paraplegic adults from the Asoplegic Association of Guayaquil to the practice of physical sports activities. A descriptive, non-experimental methodology was followed with the use of theoretical and empirical methods and the use of techniques such as the survey, achieving the results of providing a system of physical-recreational activities, composed of 4 blocks (Gymnastic Activities in Wheelchairs, Activities Wheelchair Adapted Sports, Wheelchair Adapted Recreational Activities, Wheelchair Dance Therapy). The assessment made by the evaluating specialists who agreed on the usefulness and benefits of the proposed activity system was very significant, considering it as a timely alternative to facilitate the processes of inclusion of paraplegic adults who are members of the Asoplegic Association.

scholarly journals First and last and always: streetwork as a methodology for radical community social work practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren John Hill ◽  
Erika Laredo
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
The Social

This conceptual article aims to introduce and explore the practice of social streetwork. Streetwork is located as a historical professional discourse that has contemporary relevance for a rapidly changing and globalised world. As a practice discourse, streetwork occurs across a range of communitybased helping professions, including social work, youth work and community work. The social work profession is increasingly becoming clinical and situated within statutory organisations, placing a greater emphasis on outcome-based targets, rather than building relationships. As a result of austerity, traditional youth workers are becoming invisible, often moving into statutory education settings and complex needs welfare agencies. This article will argue that for the broad helping professions to remain relevant, we must engage with vulnerable and complex populations where we find them – at the street level – promoting a direct practice of social justice at a microlevel. Within this discussion, we will define and explore a streetwork approach by examining the methodologies and objectives of streetwork practice. We will argue that by keeping to its origins of using informal and non-formal education as its primary tools, streetwork as an intervention works to combat poverty, social exclusion and discrimination. The article articulates a foundation for practice based on the promotion of low-threshold interventions with complex and hard-to-reach social populations. One of the key themes we will explore is how to locate streetwork practice as a form of social support, accompaniment and tool for promoting social inclusion and social democracy.

SOCIAL INNOVATION IN THE CULTURAL SECTOR: THE CASE OF PJE/PRODIGIUM

2021 ◽  
pp. c8
Author(s):  
Fabio Prado Saldanha ◽  
Natalia Aguilar Delgado ◽  
Marlei Pozzebon
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Vulnerable Youth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Sector

This case examines the major challenges faced by Productions Jeun’Est (PJE) and Prodigium, a social enterprise working in the cultural sector. The profits generated by Prodigium’s activities in the entertainment field are invested in the PJE training program that aims to increase the social inclusion of vulnerable youth by training them to be technicians in the cultural market. By studying this case, students are expected to understand the elements of a social business model, to analyze the role of the different elements forming a social innovation and to evaluate the challenges of planning its transfer to another context.

scholarly journals “Why Can’t I Play?”: Transdisciplinary Learnings for Children with Disability’s Sport Participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Darcy ◽  
Janice Ollerton ◽  
Simone Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Leisure Constraints ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Children With Disability ◽  
The Social

This article explores the constraints to mainstream sports participation of children with disability in community sports clubs and schools through their lived experiences and the perceptions of parents, teachers, coaches, and club officials. It does so by administering an open-ended survey instrument to a sample of participants recruited from schools, sporting facilities, and disability organizations in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. The data were analysed through a transdisciplinary conceptual framework which brought together the social model of disability (disability studies) with the leisure constraints framework (leisure studies), which have been encouraged by both academics and practitioners. The findings identified ableist and disablist practices, creating an enabled understanding of the facilitators for social inclusion. Participants perceived that interrelated intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural constraints excluded children from their desired sporting activities. Through applying the social model of disability to the leisure constraints framework, the findings and discussion showed that a great deal of what had been considered intrapersonal constraints of the child with disability could be reinterpreted as interpersonal and structural constraints through enabling socially inclusive practices. The implications are that a social model of disability brings a new social lens to understanding constraints to sport participation for children with disability and can produce effective strategies for inclusion in sport at schools and community sport clubs.

scholarly journals Uneasy bedfellows? Fusing participatory and psychosocial principles in research with youth workers and young people

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-257
Author(s):  
Peter Harris
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Other ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This article charts an attempt to fuse two arguably incompatible formulations of social research; one rooted in a commitment to democratic, participatory practice and the other rooted in a psychosocial epistemological frame. After setting out the broad precepts of the two methodological approaches, the article explores some theoretical and practical tensions that surfaced during a doctoral criminological study examining the desistance-promoting potential of relationships between male youth workers and young men involved in violence. I show how the professional context in which the study was conducted (youth work) afforded the opportunity to work with participants while also retaining a psychosocial epistemological and analytic frame. The article concludes that while the two approaches are likely to remain ‘uneasy bedfellows’, more researchers in the youth work field might consider adopting a psychosocial standpoint as a means of keeping in sight both the psychic and the social forces imbricated in young people’s lives and within their relationships with youth professionals.

scholarly journals YOUTH IN SPORTS CLUBS: ON THE ROLE OF SPORTS CLUBS IN THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION IN HUNGARY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-153
Author(s):  
Emőke Török
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Organized Sports ◽  
The Social ◽  
Low Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sports Activities ◽  
Positive Impacts

It is a widely accepted view that the participation of young generations in organized sports activities has positive impacts both for the individual and the society. However, these positive impacts often does not reach those groups of the society, which would need the most these impacts for improving their chances regarding social participation and thus promoting integration of the society. The paper presents the results of a survey among young athletes inHungary, showing that the perception of the athletes in the sports clubs is very positive regarding the impacts of sports on their lives, but that young people from low-income and low-education families have very limited access to the sports clubs and so to the positive impacts of sports.

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