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Patrick O’Neill, Deirdre Brennan and David Hassan
MPhil in Sport Related StudiesUniversity of Ulster, Jordanstown
[email protected]@gmail.com
‘eHoops’ Achieving meaningful youth engagement in Northern
Ireland
NEETS
“What has come to be called ‘recreational rioting’ is also a feature of many of these areas, especially those on an interface where young people, mostly male, engage in rioting for kicks.” (Smyth 1998; 78)
Assessing Sport for Development Programmes
• implicit assumption or explicit affirmation that sport has inherent developmental properties
Provision for sport
• sports are adapted and often augmented with parallel programmes to maximise developmental objectives. Sport plus
• sport used as a hook to attract participants to programmes which incorporate education & training,
• systematic development of sport rarely a strategic aim.
Plus sport
SDP in Northern Ireland
eHoops
SCL
PSNI
Community groups
University of Ulster
The structure of the programme is:
Victory Scholars
Community Workers
Community workers untrained and unqualified Work in a voluntary capacity SCL sees the development of community leaders as a crucial
aspect of the programme
Police Service of Northern Ireland
‘informal social contact’ on the bus trips a change in young people’s attitudes towards each other a willingness to engage with their peers an enthusiasm in getting involved in community projects
Initial Findings
violent crimes against the person having fallen by 13% burglaries reduced by 75% criminal damage by 29% anti social behaviour has seen a 14% decrease (78% for
sectarian ASB),
Employed38%
Remain in School35%
Left school but returned to further and higher educa-
tion14%
Unemployed13%
Participants = 71
Final Word
References
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