Youth in Sport and Recreation
The Youth unit facilitates opportunities for young people state-wide to participate in leadership programs.
It also provides advice on youth issues for sporting clubs, State Sporting Associations, schools and other key community and government organisations involved in the delivery of sport and recreation.
A comprehensive overview of the careers and courses available in Western Australia.
The Sport and Recreation Career Pathways Program gives participants an increased understanding of the industry and develops skills that will increase their capacity to work within the sport and recreation industry. Participants are selected into the program through an application process.
Parents play a key role in creating healthy environments for their children. In order to achieve this, many parents will need information and education on the benefits of physical activity and on the importance of positive and acceptable behaviours in sport and recreation.
Play by the Rules websitePlay by the Rules provides information and online learning about how to prevent and deal with discrimination, harassment and child abuse for the sport and recreation industry.
Youth initiatives
The Junior Sport Framework (JSF) is a set of guidelines, checklists and templates for national sporting organisations to develop their own sport specific junior sport policies considering issues at national, state and local levels.
The Department of Sport and Recreation conducted a Junior Sport and Education Forum with representatives from State Sporting Associations, schools and other key industry bodies to discuss access to schools by sporting organisations and effective implementation of programs.
The Schools Network (SN) supports schools that are keen to deliver better sport and physical activity opportunities to their staff and students.
Sportsfun is a youth leadership program that develops coaching and officiating in young leaders who in turn provide fun instruction of modified sports to younger participants.
Passport into schools
Suggested strategies and best practice examples for initiating and maintaining partnerships between sports and schools.
How to liaise with the relevant stakeholders.
Making your club attractive to youth.
Turning junior members into long term members.
Making your club and activities safe for everyone.
Linking sport and recreations clubs with schools.
The changing needs of growing bodies and minds.
Important tips for junior coaches.
Pathways for the development of junior members.
Strategies to strengthen youth sports and recreation programs.
The Lab is an online library of research on education and youth issues.
15 December 2010
The Australian state of Victoria's Multicultural Sport and Recreation Project aims to increase the number of on-going sporting opportunities for newly arrived, refugee background and migrant young people. The Centre for Multicultural Youth works towards creating a sport and recreation sector inclusive of diversity. This resource includes information on the benefits of diversity for inclusive clubs, the role of sport and recreation in resettlement, barriers to participation and strategies to overcome them. (Centre for Multicultural Youth)
13 August 2010
On the eve of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, August 14–26, WADA is set to officially launch its Play True Generation Program. The Program, which was piloted during the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India, challenges young athletes to be a generation of clean athletes. (WADA)
09 August 2010
Schools can integrate physical activity throughout the school day by scheduling physical activity breaks and including physical activities during academic classes, creating opportunities for students to be active between classes, and providing physical activity before, during, and after school and through organized programs such as intramurals and recess. (National Association for Sport and Physical Education, US)
11 August 2010
The Australian Sports Commission's campaign 'Play for life...join a sporting club has been launched right around the country, with enthusiastic support and endorsement not only from the sporting community, but also from schools, health professionals, child psychologists and counsellors, and the media. (Australian Sports Commission)
15 July 2010
A new study led by York University researchers finds that young athletes with Type 1 diabetes may experience a marked decrease in performance as a result of their blood sugar levels. (physorg.com)
Contact details for Youth
Callum Warner
Graduate Project Officer246 Vincent Street, LEEDERVILLE WA 6007PO Box 329, LEEDERVILLE WA 6903
Telephone (08) 9492 9628
Facsimile (08) 9492 9711
Email Callum
