Active Futures: Co-Creating Health and Justice Outcomes Through Youth Clubs and Sport
This hybrid participatory workshop examines how youth engagement, sport and health intersect to support young people from marginalised communities in abstaining from crime. It will build on workshop host, Dr Hammond’s evaluation of the Levelling the Playing Field initiative and its national impact.
Bringing together multidisciplinary researchers, third-sector partners, youth collaborators and young people with lived experience, the event will advance practical recommendations and showcase research on how sport-based programmes and youth clubs shape identity, wellbeing and positive outcomes for ethnically diverse youth.
This workshop explores the intersection of youth engagement, sport, and health outcomes for young people from marginalised communities. Building on the findings from Dr Hammond’s recent monitoring and evaluation of Levelling the Playing Field a £1m initiative delivered in conjunction with the Youth Justice Board that uses sport to support desistance from crime among ethnically diverse youth, this multi-disciplinary event aims to continue the momentum by debating the practicalities of the recommendations, and exploring key findings around identity and health and desistance outcomes for young people.
