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Category: Sports

Sports Spaces for Mental Health

Transition-to-Scale VietnamFamily FunctioningPeer-based SportsStatus: Funded

Plan International Vietnam’s Sport Spaces Model (SSM) utilizes team sports to engage parents in reducing violence and conflict, strengthening family functioning, and improving youth mental health among ethnic minority youth...View

Obstacle Race Against Stigma and Shame (ORASS)

Transition-to-Scale TanzaniaStigmaPeer-based SportsStatus: Funded

Community Consortium Uganda (CCU) launched their Obstacle Race Against Stigma and Shame (ORASS) program in 2020 with funding from Comic Relief UK and expanded the project in 2021 with funding...View

Rugby for Peace

Proof-of-Concept EcuadorPhysical and Emotional SafetySportsStatus: Funded

The Rugby for Peace project will evaluate the effectiveness of social rugby schools as an innovative model for the mental health of children and young people. The project will empower...View

United for Sport and Healthy School Coexistence

Proof-of-Concept EcuadorPhysical and Emotional SafetySportsStatus: Funded

The United for Sport and Healthy School Coexistence program addresses challenges faced by school communities in Guayaquil, Ecuador. This innovation will test the efficacy of sport and play as fundamental...View

Entertain for Health Project (EHP)

Proof-of-Concept Sierra LeoneSubstance UseArts Games Peer-based SportsStatus: Funded

The EHP project will engage youth aged 10–24 in Bo District, Southern Sierra Leone, through sports and entertainment competitions to reduce harmful substance use. Organized by the Women Health Initiative,...View

Let’s play for Baranoa

Proof-of-Concept ColombiaFamily FunctioningPeer-based SportsStatus: Funded

Let’s Play for Baranoa is a curriculum-based project that uses football as a transformative tool to build critical socio-emotional skills in children and youth aged 10–18. Weekly football sessions in...View
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