Re-engaging local youth for sustainable sport-for-development |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Technology Sydney, Australia;2. University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Business School, Sport Management, 14 Ultimo Rd., Ultimo 2007, NSW, Australia;3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States;1. Bowling Green State University, 232 Eppler Complex Center, Bowling Green, OH 43402 USA;2. Bowling Green State University, USA;3. Bowling Green State University, 230 Eppler Complex Center, Bowling Green, OH 43402 USA;1. University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #210769, Denton, TX 76203, United States;2. Lock Haven University, 401 N. Fairview St. Lock Haven, PA 17745, United States;1. University of Louisville, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, 2100 South Floyd Street, SAC East 104 J, Louisville, KY, 40292, United States;2. Louisiana State University, United States;1. University of Illinois Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism Huff Hall 104, MC-584 Champaign, IL, 61820, USA;2. University of Technology Sydney, CCW Building CB08, PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia;1. Centre for Sport and Social Impact, La Trobe University, Australia;2. Sport Management, UTS Business School, UTS, Australia;1. Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia;2. Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands;3. Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands;4. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Despite increasing evidence that sport-for-development (SFD) programs can contribute to community development, there remains a lack of empirical inquiry into different socio-managerial aspects of SFD. For example, in attempts to achieve locally sustained SFD programs, the roles, responsibilities and potential impact of re-engaged youth need further investigation. The authors define re-engaged youth as previous program participants who have maintained strong links with the organization and who return to the program at a later stage as volunteers or staff members. In this paper, the authors examine ways in which Re-engaged youth of the Blue Dragon Children Foundation’s SFD program contribute to sustainable management and indirectly to community development within a disadvantaged community setting in Hanoi, Vietnam. Following an interpretive mode of inquiry, the authors conducted and analyzed two focus groups (six participants each) and 12 in-depth interviews with re-engaged youth (n = 7) and key program stakeholders (n = 5). Overall, re-engaged youth represented key drivers for organizational success; they served as program culture experts, role models, leaders and mentors, and creators of a family feel in SFD and beyond. The authors argue that re-engaged youth are demonstrating a number of important change agent capabilities that enable them to uniquely gauge and best respond to the needs of program participants and local communities in complex sociocultural environments. |
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| Keywords: | Sport-for-development Youth Leadership Role models Change agents Field theory |
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