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Personal skills on focus during first month of Fundació…

Self-improvement, self-consciousness and respect were the three topics addressed by Fundació Pere Tarrés in the January sessions of the PLAY! pilot in Spain.

The topics were selected to work and promote specific competences among the beneficiaries, five groups of approximately 20 children from three organisations, and help close the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children, while improving learning.  

Each month will work on a different set competences and skills. 

Prior to the implementation, in November 2017, the Catalan foundation selected and trained the 10 Youth Active Groups (YAGs) to work with children and youth and through sporting sessions further their social, intellectual and entrepreneurship skills. 

The second session is due for this month and will look at the outcomes of the first three month of sessions and plan the upcoming ones.

The sessions are being implemented in partnership with Institut Rubio I Ors, Institut Ferran Sunyer and CBS Hércules Hospitalet.

FIMU hosts first YAG training

Youth and coaches from grassroots sports clubs have come together to attend the first Youth Active Groups (YAGs) training organised by the Finnish Multicultural Sports Federation (FIMU) on 3 February in Helsinki.

Participants were given general information about the project and its implementation stages. Their roles, specific tasks and subsequent training was also addressed.

Trained YAGs will be responsible for helping out in the planning, tutoring, documentation and evaluation of the pilot sessions for children and youth at clubs in Helsinki and neighbouring cities, including 09 Helsinki Human Rights, KOHMU ry and Sahan-seura ry.  

The session follows a partnership between FIMU and the University of Jyväskylä to use the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility through Physical Activity (TPSR) model to train the YAGs.

The methodological approach is aimed at implementing a responsibility-based programme to further the physical activity of children, coaching multicultural groups and promote peer-on-peer education.