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Attempting to Change the Urban Landscape Through Sport – Lessons Learned
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• Can we create sports programs that are sustainable both financially and in exciting and engaging kids?
• Can we effectively use sports to engage or re-engage at risk youth with schools?
• Can well attended sports programs that focus on building confidence and team camaraderie have an impact on improving an overall neighborhood?
• Can sports programs positively impact attitudes toward healthy habits on a sustained basis?
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World Sport Chicago - providing sustainable programs for Chicago kids to participate in sports to improve their lives.
What is World Sport Chicago?
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World Sport Chicago
WSC Programs and
Events
Urban Youth Sport Institute
Best Practices
Issues / feedback
• Attracting/hosting sport competitions• Connecting youth with Olympic & Paralympic sport• International athlete exchanges• School programs•Parks programs
• Olympians giving back to Movement• One-on-one, and group deep connections with youth• New media platform to reach and connect broad audience
• Issue identification• Best practice identification, development and syndication• Educational programs and scholarships
Talent / Resources
Talent / Resources
Athlete Ambassador
Program
Partners
World Sport Chicago Model
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World Sport Chicago 30,000 Kids To Date
Events
Elite Events• World Boxing Championships• Etchells World Championships• American Cup Gymnastics• Pan Am Weightlifting• Chicago Cup Wrestling
Youth Events
• City wide wrestling festival• Junior Beach Volleyball• Illinois Youth Soccer Int’l
Tournament• Chicago archery tournament
Athlete Ambassadors
• Training coaches and athletes on Olympic principles
• Olympians and Paralympian clinics
Archery Badminton Gymnastics Track and Field Swimming Paralympics
CyclingJudoBocciaEngagement
Wrestling Youth Exchanges
BoxingWrestlingGymnasticsJudo
Scholarship Program
Programs
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Partnerships we have formed
Local Sport Organizations
Community Organizations
National Sport Organizations
Universities
Notre DameUniversity of Chicago NorthwesternUniversity of Illinois
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Urban Youth Sport Institute
Mobilize American research institutions who have an expertise in social service, psychology, public policy, economics, public health, etc. to apply clinical rigor to understand how sports can be a tool for individual and community improvement
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World Sport Chicago
An Integrator A Venture Capitalist Doer
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Chicago schools cut spring sophomore sports
Park Surroundings Marred By Officer's Murder
Chicago Park District Ready to Raise Fees, Cut Jobs
30% freshman need to care for younger siblings after school
Environmental Attitudes and Capabilities
Structural Issues
People
What have we learned?
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Environmental Attitudes and Capabilities
Structural Issues
People
Lessons LearnedObservations
• Institutional exhaustion and skepticism
• Institutional turbulence
• Lack of Institutional capabilities
• Need for coaching/mentoring skills
• Reliable delivery is key in the long term
• Need to convey the role as a supporter and enabler
• Its not about sport, its about execution
• Its not about sport its about logistics
• Its not about sport its about community engagement
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Environmental Attitudes and Capabilities
Structural Issues
People
Observations Lessons Learned
• Urban bureaucracy
• Institutional silos and a disconnectedness
• Family structure
• Gang structures
• Cut across organizations with visible, consistent and on-going support of major institutions
• Reach out to community groups to mobilize parents as volunteers and to apply pressure
• Work within existing organizations where possible and around them only when necessary
• Integrate beyond sport organizations
• Tap into sports passion of the young professionals
• Leverage elite athletes to increase focus and incent institutional integration
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Environmental Attitudes and Capabilities
Structural Issues
People
Observations Lessons Learned
• Poor behavior
• Ego focused versus task focused
• Skepticism and disinclination to join
• Pride
• Passion for improvement
Set high norms of behavior
Integrate a curriculum focused on behavior
View youth not as individuals but as micro-groups
Engage youth in program operation
Focus on the early adopters and let the others knock on our door
Provide urban relevant rewards – for kids and parents
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Creating a new urban system based in sport
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Communities
Neighborhoods
Sport
Schools
Community group
Police
Parents
Coaches
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• Can we create sports programs that are sustainable both financially and in exciting and engaging kids?
• Can we effectively use sports to engage or re-engage at risk youth with schools?
• Can well attended sports programs that focus on building confidence and team camaraderie have an impact on improving an overall neighborhood?
• Can sports programs positively impact attitudes toward healthy habits on a sustained basis?
?But we’re still going to try