Abstract
This colloquium explores how young people are engaged in sport for positive youth development and social change in different country and program contexts: The first paper focuses on a co-design project with young people in designing an evaluation of key programs delivered by Creating Chances, an Australian youth-focused sport for positive youth development social enterprise that offers a wide range of programs to young people in schools with over 150 programs delivered across more than 70 primary and secondary schools. The second paper considers the engagement of 69 young women from a mix of low, middle, and high-income countries in Festival 23, an eight-day leadership development program, held during the Women’s World Cup in Sydney, Australia in 2023. The third paper reviews a US case study of how a young persons’ story of impact was shared and communicated and their engagement in developing and communicating the narrative. The fourth paper shares the principles and model of a UK based charity with a central tenet of co-production placing young people at the centre of their program development and implementation. The fifth and final paper brings together the lessons from these diverse contexts, programs and approaches to explore different levels of engagement at the program and organisational level drawing together common principles of engagement and empowerment and what is unique to each context before opening up the colloquium for participants to discuss implications for their own contexts and pose questions to presenters.
Presenters
Sally NathanProfessor, Medicine and Health/Population Health, UNSW Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Assmaah Helal
Creating Chances Sam L Loyd
Director, WAY UK, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Meredith Whitley
Professor, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, Adelphi University, New York, United States Sophia Lin
Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Australia Marion Sturges
Western Sydney University
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KEYWORDS
Sport for Development, Positive Youth Development, Leadership, Empowerment, Engagement, Co-design
