Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of using sport programs at municipal recreation centres to help reduce youth violence

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Technoworld 2011

por suzanah sap

GP

por Michelle Josephine

Community Helpers

por Melanie Bergenhagen

Othello

por Sidney Awesome

Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of using sport programs at municipal recreation centres to help reduce youth violence

Eases pressure on health system

Increases their mental and physical health

Decreases mental health

Increases social interaction

Friends outside of school

When playing sports it teaches them their sense of belonging

When playing a team sport, it teaches the youth how to cooperate

Brings people together, while providing opportunities for social interaction

Increases self-esteem

Find their identity through sports

Dynamic Domain

Become expressive in moral and character

Improves problem solving skills

Helps youth learn how to work with the things they have

Helps youth know how to interact with each other

Enables the youth to exert control over their environment

Youth Violence: includes from 10 year old to young adults that are around 24 being threatened intentionally by the use of physical force or power.

Causes of Youth Violence

Issues in education system

Guidance counsellors are not trained properly

Low expectations for people of colour

Community design

Lack of places for youths to gather

The conditions of the community can make people feel powerless

Poverty

The experience of opression

Lack of hope, empathy, or belongingness

Leads to self-esteem

Racism

Being sent back to their home country

Racism strikes the core of self-identity

Health

About 1 in 5 youth Ontarians struggle with mental health or behavioral disorder

Family

Low supervision from parents

Youths who live on streets are often victims of violence

Youth in foster care systems who are constantly being transferred, never know how the next family will be

Some grow up without any family

A severely troubled home

Keeps children away from technology

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