Stoke-on-Trent Youth Offending Fit Academy |
Young people who are in contact with the Youth Offending Service in Stoke-on-Trent and have a keen interest in sport have been offered the opportunity to improve their fitness and achieve the ASDAN award for Sport and Fitness. The young people take part in a variety of activities to promote healthy lifestyles and assess their fitness over the duration of the course.
Stoke-on-Trent Youth Offending Service value the positive benefits of sport and physical activity and have worked with Closing the Gap to identify aims that meet the objectives of both organisations. Closing the Gap have created a product that the Youth Offending Service can adopt and use to fulfil this criteria. The course is designed to be a rolling programme to allow the young people to be referred onto the course in week 8 and complete in week 7 of the next course.
The fit academy is a programme that measures the fitness levels of the young people and promotes all aspects of a healthy lifestyle to improve health and fitness in the young people that attend over the 10 week course. Every aspect of the course can be evidenced to credit the young people that take part with the ASDAN award for Sport and Fitness. There are various levels of this award available depending on the number of hours that each individual completes, and its flexibility allows participants to develop aspects that most interest them.
We are just nearing the end of the pilot course and have already made improvements to the next course through feedback from current participants. The course has been enjoyed by all participants and there is something to interest or learn for everyone.
For more information please use the contact details below for Briony Seymour, Email: briony.seymour@stoke.gov.uk
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