Transcript RUGBY TO WORK

RUGBY TO WORK
by Rugby Club Arena Pula
Project goal is to reduce violence amongst youth and
help young people get job opportunities through
involvement in rugby
Authors:
Lem Treursić, club secretary
Perica Bajs, club president
September 2013
What’s involved?
• Rugby to work is a project
conceived as a social-sports
program which will allow the
participants to learn to play rugby
and work as a team through a
rigorous sports program.
• Through specialized seminars,
workshops, working with
psychologists and other
professionals participants will be
encouraged to develop
communication skills, improve
confidence and learn how to
present themselves in best light
to a potential employer.
What’s gained by participating?
• Participants are given the
opportunity to look for
work with employers that
will seriously consider
their application,
• Employers get the
opportunity to employ a
person that finished the
program through hard
work and dedication
proving that he is able to
learn new skills and work
well in a team.
Why are we doing this?
• Most members of our senior team belonging to football supporters'
group DEMONI from Pula, that has "a bad reputation" due to aggressive
behavior.
• Through participation in the project and work with psychologists
participants are given the opportunity to channel aggression to rugby
pitch through organized competition within the rules of rugby game. This
should help to remove at least part of aggressive behavior from „the
street”
• Functioning within a sports team troubled individuals will learn new
codes of conduct that will convey from the pitch to everyday life.
Where did we get the idea?
Is such project needed in Croatia?
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Male population, aged 20-30, without a job, is in
a difficult financial situation in general and often
have difficulties in psycho-physical functioning
and reported psychological symptoms such as
depression, aggressive behavior and problems in
interpersonal relationships and social
functioning.
During and after 70% of football matches in Croatia fans
of one team get into fights with another teams fans. In
an interview with fans, we learned that there are even
organized fights on a neutral ground in some cases.
In fights during and after the game, and organized fights
there are almost always injuries present in 50% of the
participants. In addition, we learned that 90% of
members of the group, aged between 20 and 30 are
without a permanent job.
Our study on a sample of 200 young people have shown
that aggressive behavior and high unemployment are
present in the so-called marginalized groups such as
football fans and members of alternative subcultures.
This is the main reason for selecting members of those
groups for participants in our project.
Why Rugby?
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Rugby is a sport that requires exceptional
physical fitness, teamwork, fast quality
decisions, persistence and many other skills
that can be applied in everyday life.
Rugby, as a contact sport, provides
opportunities for people to channel their
aggression through competition and physical
contact on the sports pitch within the rules of
the game.
Research has shown that physical activity
alone, especially teamwork, which is an
integral part of rugby game, acts as a
preventive action and treatment for most
negative emotional states such as the state of
stress, frustration and depression.
Teamwork and structure provided by the rules
promote social skills in general, which certainly
helps people finding and keeping a job.
How do we plan to do it?
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Through eight weeks, participants will not only undergo
physical preparation, learn rugby rules, techniques and
tactics to but also talk to a psychologist, social worker,
psychiatrist, motivators and managers who will advise
them on how to prepare for the job interview and how to
get and keep a job.
Individual participants will work more on the areas that
they have problems with, and a team of experts will follow
them throughout the duration of the camp.
In cooperation with the Pula entrepreneurs and local
government, we will organize a series of job interviews for
participants who complete the entire camp, and thus
demonstrate perseverance, diligence and reliability
What do we want to achieve?
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Violent behaviour in the participants, which
are considered problematic work groups,
reduced by at least 50%
Participants educated on how to present
themselves to the employer at the end of the
camp
job interviews from 15 employers for 20-25
participants who pass entire camp
Employment of at least 30% of participants
Inclusion of 5-10 young people of different
profiles in the project, which would have
given them a chance to publishtheir work
(recording, music, graffiti, video editing)
Obtaining a pitch for rugby club Arena Pula
Create a rugby team to compete in Croatian
cup and championship
Activity schedule - Gathering participants
(10 days)
• In preliminary talks with the leaders of
football fan group Demoni from Pula, we
agreed that we will look for project
participants mainly from their fan group
• Group leaders will invite interested
members to a meeting with members of
the club and project organizers, who will
choose the people eligible for
participation in the project.
• If this does approach fails to get a
sufficient number of participants we will
post ads in media and make posters and
flyers that organizers and participants
gathered from the Demoni will spread
around the city of Pula.
Activity schedule – Coach training
(7 days)
• Professional coaches
from England will be
holding seminars and
workshops for
participating coaches
that will instruct
them in the latest
training methods,
and in particular
focus on the transfer
of their experience in
working with
troubled people.
Activity schedule – Training - Sports
(8 weeks)
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Training will be divided into two parts . The
first part will be sports training , which will
consist of the basic preparation which will
include fitness and gym for all the participants
to gain the strength and stamina to continue
the project .
Along with the basic preparation participants
will learn the rules of rugby game.
The second part of training will be fitness
training that will be implemented by Dubravko
Kolec in the gym and on the rugby pitch,
Rugby technique and tactics will be coached to
individuals and groups on the rugby pitch by
our coaches Perica Bajs and Lem Treursić with
the help of coaches from England.
Activity schedule – Training – Social skills
(8 weeks)
• Another part of the training will help
participants in finding and retaining
employment. This part of the training will be
conducted in the form of seminars and
workshops focused on developing
communication skills , self-confidence ,
writing CVs and preparing for a job
interview.
• Professional managers and psychologists
involved in the project will work with
participants involved in the project.
• Workshops and seminars will be held at ​the
Faculty of Economics for group workshops
and seminars, and psychologists will work
with small groups and individuals in a
dedicated office.
Psychosocial support and counseling
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Psychologist, social worker and psychiatrist will monitor participants
throughout the process and offer them psychosocial support and advisory
work with individual participants as needed.
Task of the psychologists will be to provide support to overcome special
difficulties and problems, motivational training, individual counseling with
participants and, if necessary psycho-diagnostics and testing participants.
The social worker will assist in advising participants in the achieving social
welfare rights and organize group psychosocial support for the participants.
The task of the psychiatrist will be, if necessary, diagnosis and treatment of
mental illness.
Motivational tours and activities
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To encourage participants to devote themselves
to the project we will organize motivational
training to be carried out by famous athletes and
sports professionals such as Enver Šeparović and
Zelg Galesic through training in their
environment and conversations to convey a
portion of their sporting experiences and
motivate participants to completely devote
themselves to the project.
In addition, in various stages of the project we
will organize preparatory rugby match against
teams from other towns.
Early in the project we will organize a
teambuilding weekend for the participants to get
to know what it means to work as a team
completing series of tasks given to them during
the weekend.
The final match against RC Zagreb
• After 8 weeks of
preparation a final
match against Rugby
Club Zagreb will be
organized for the
participants where
they should show
what they managed to
achieve in the sports
section of the project.
Job interviews
• There will be organized
job interviews with 15
local employers for
participants that remain
in the project until the
end and show
perseverance and
commitment.
How much will it cost?
Professional work
Costs for facilities
Costs of travel, accommodation and food
Equipment
Marketing and Advertising
TOTAL
€ 11.000
€ 3.000
€ 4.000
€ 10.000
€ 1.500
€ 29.500
Thanks for your
atention