Sport, as it is being delivered, is less able to meet the needs of young people, including in secondary school. It is important for those in sport and education to understand the barriers that impact youth and what can motivate them to participate in sport for active and healthy lives. Participation in sport – and particularly in organised club-based team sport – is known to contribute to positive physical and psychosocial health above and beyond individual-based physical activities. Participation in sport in school and early adult years is also an important contributor to continuing engagement in recreational physical activity in later years. Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and persons from cultural and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds, the participation rate in organised sports in Australia, for both adults and children is generally lower than in the wider population.

• Once your kid starts a sport, we encourage you to show your support by attending their sporting games and training practices and celebrating them giving it a go and having fun.
• Those that grow up in a household loving and appreciate firearms at a young age typically desire to pass that down to their own children, giving them the same type of upbringing.
• At 4Titude, we offer a wide range of individual support services tailored to meet the unique needs of each person.
• There are 4 unique groups of disengaged youth and they each have different barriers and motivations.
• Our services are flexible, allowing you to allocate as much or as little of your funding as you’d like.

NETWORKS, POLICY AND FRAMEWORKS

Paralympics Australia acknowledges and pays respect to Elders past and present of the lands and waters on which we live, work and engage in sports together. We acknowledge the diversity, unique histories, cultures, knowledge and current experiences of individuals and communities across Australia. We celebrate their contributions to the nation broadly, and specifically to community and sport. The ‘Sport participation and play’ policy paper (PDF, 1.97 MB) is intended to contribute to the development of policy support for participation in sport at all ages and in all communities in Australia. A number of studies have concluded that feeling competent is extremely important to maintaining sports participation.

ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT

Enhance existing sport programs with a ‘stress relief’ program for those students who can no longer commit to traditional sport activities. This could include a social competition for a traditional sport (suited to more-confident students) or a series of alternative sport or physical activities that focus on learning and developing new skills (suited to less-confident students). It is important for young people to play sport and stay active for their physical and mental health and wellbeing, and to develop their physical literacy. An early connection to sport can also encourage a lifelong love of sport and physical activity. This paper also considers how sport and health policy can and should complement each other in stimulating and facilitating increased participation in sport and increased levels of physical activity for better health across all ages.

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The Australian Sports Commission’s AusPlay survey collects information on the amounts individuals and parents report paying for themselves or their children to participate in sport and physical activities. Between the ages of 13 to 17 years a significant number of young people stop playing organised sport. It represents with eight National Sporting Organisations that advocate and facilitates inclusive sport and physical activity for people with disability. Abilities Unleashed, delivered in partnership with local councils and other disability sport providers, empowers people with disabilities to explore active pathways in their communities.

This framework has guided the development of sport policy across Australia and has included as a priority increasing community (sport) participation. Each state and territory government has also developed strategic policies reflecting the key principles of the National Sport and Active Recreation Policy. The first federal government sport portfolio was established in 1972 and, through the next 45 years, the focus of national sport policy has generally been on investment in and support visit site for elite sport and athletes. In the mid 1990s, national sport policy began to take on an additional focus of improving population health outcomes.