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

Hermens, Niels; Super, Sabina; Verkooijen, Kirsten; Koelen, M.A.

doi:10.17645/si.v3i3.139

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“…For example, Harris et al (2009) found that governmental expectations often do not suit sports clubs' interests, and that many sports clubs lack the physical, financial and human resources to meet these expectations. Despite these criticisms, the present study as well as previous research (Hermens et al 2015) show that some sports clubs aspire to serve as a youth development setting for socially vulnerable youths. Therefore, we recommend that local governments find out which sports clubs have such ambitions, link youth-care to these clubs and support information exchange between both organisations.…”

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“…Despite these criticisms, the present study as well as previous research (Hermens et al . ) show that some sports clubs aspire to serve as a youth development setting for socially vulnerable youths. Therefore, we recommend that local governments find out which sports clubs have such ambitions, link youth‐care to these clubs and support information exchange between both organisations.…”

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“…Nonetheless, both organisations may benefit from co-ordinated action. It may facilitate youth-care workers to increase sports participation among socially vulnerable youths, and it may provide sports clubs a platform to fulfil communal ambitions and to find new members (Hermens et al 2015).…”

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Co-ordinated action between youth-care and sports: facilitators and barriers

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In the Netherlands, youth-care organisations and community sports clubs are collaborating to increase socially vulnerable youths' participation in sport. This is rooted in the idea that sports clubs are settings for youth development. As not much is known about co-ordinated action involving professional care organisations and community sports clubs, this study aims to generate insight into facilitators of and barriers to successful co-ordinated action between these two organisations. A cross-sectional study was conducted using in-depth semi-structured qualitative interview data. In total, 23 interviews were held at five locations where co-ordinated action between youth-care and sports takes place. Interviewees were youth-care workers, representatives from community sports clubs, and Care Sport Connectors who were assigned to encourage and manage the co-ordinated action. Using inductive coding procedures, this study shows that existing and good relationships, a boundary spanner, care workers' attitudes, knowledge and competences of the participants, organisational policies and ambitions, and some elements external to the co-ordinated action were reported to be facilitators or barriers. In addition, the participants reported that the different facilitators and barriers influenced the success of the co-ordinated action at different stages of the co-ordinated action. Future research is recommended to further explore the role of boundary spanners in co-ordinated action involving social care organisations and community sports clubs, and to identify what external elements (e.g. events, processes, national policies) are turning points in the formation, implementation and continuation of such co-ordinated action.

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“…The scenarios described different types of youths and addressed various types of problem behaviour that are often prevalent in youth care settings. The scenarios were based on interviews conducted with youth care professionals, where they described the issues and behaviour of socially vulnerable youth (Hermens, Super, Verkooijen, & Koelen, 2015). In preparation for the interviews, the main investigator (SS) conducted two pilot interviews to ensure that the interview questions were comprehensible and that the scenarios were understandable for the interviewees.…”

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The role of community sports coaches in creating optimal social conditions for life skill development and transferability – a salutogenic perspective

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Sport is widely recognised as having the potential to enhance the personal development of socially vulnerable youth, yet there is very limited knowledge on how community sports coaches can create optimal social conditions for life skill development and transferability. We adopt a salutogenic approach in order to study whether and how community sports coaches create these optimal social conditions. Based on the salutogenic framework, a thematic analysis was conducted of 15 indepth interviews with community sports coaches providing sports lessons to socially vulnerable youth. As part of the interviews, the sports coaches were presented with several training scenarios and asked how they would respond in specific training situations. The results showed that the sports coaches aimed to create meaningful sporting experiences for youths. These meaningful sporting experiences were considered a precondition for keeping youths engaged in the sporting activities, as well as a precondition for life skill development. The sports coaches specifically focused on creating little moments of success and on making sure that the youths felt they belonged to a group. In order to ensure that the youths could experience moments of success, specific coaching strategies were implemented to increase the youths' comprehensibility and manageability in specific sport situations. According to the sports coaches, experiencing little moments of success could contribute to an increase in socially vulnerable youths' understanding of the everyday challenges that they face, as well as contribute to their ability to deal with these challenges. Creating meaningful sporting experiences may help youths 'to learn to cope' -a skill that could be beneficial over their lifespan and in different societal domains. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…As the care sport connector is new as well its area of inquiry and action, conceptual clarification is demanded [9]. The Healthy Alliances (HALL) framework seems to be a useful framework to study the factors that hinder or facilitate the success of intersectoral collaboration and has been successfully used to study intersectoral collaboration initiated by care sport connectors [10] and by youth-care organisations [11], amongst others. The HALL framework identifies three clusters of factors.…”

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