How play-spaces are used is critical.
Every field is a hub for the community, not only for exercising and socializing, but for the the circulation and stir it can bring to the area.
The City Soccer model improves the way playing fields serve and impact a community.
There are many reasons that people play. Reasons also change over the years, or even from day to day. Each program serves the different reasons people play.
The model is unique because of the circumstances from which it came. Rebuilding a major city after a natural disaster means people need programming in all sorts of ways. We have a field…how can we help? Design & development has continued for over a decade.
There are many interests in local sports. Players, families, coaches, and clubs, but also communities, associations, governing bodies and businesses. All of these stakeholders can be aided and aligned by well designed programs at a local play-space.
The model can work in any local area. It is adaptable. Mix and match programs along side a schedule of existing activities. The right local framework is found through the Planning process offered by Unite The Game Foundation.
When local play-spaces and people are maximized, critical benefits and impacts follow.
Designed over fifteen years, starting with a uniquely valuable circumstance of total need, and assembling a model that can be adapted and used by others.
Developed with careful consideration and understanding many key stakeholders in local sport, arriving at simple program-designs that solve several problems from each perspective.
Researched through the lens of key areas of SROI: HEALTHCARE, ECONOMIC, EVIRONMENTAL, COMMUNITY, ORGANIZATION and, of course, PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
It is an ideal approach for social determinants of health in communities, through sport.
The model is also highly effective for competitive player, club, and population development.
Open Academy, alone, is a force for players and coaches to learn and develop. By combining the programs with other opportunities, an incredible model for developing players and coaches becomes available across a local area.
When all have access and none are held back, the difference is powerful. The proof is on the field.
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