Sport for Children & Youth Development

Developing Children & Youth: Leader of Confidence Through Sport

SportCares’ methodology uses sport and coach-mentoring to engage young people to build self-esteem, pick-up life skills and enable a strong sense of autonomy through personal development.

Across our programmes, sport operates as a ‘hook’ to engage young people, to encourage health and wellbeing, and to achieve positive youth development. Friendships and relationships built through sport also remove young people from negative influences including anti-social peer groups, dependence & addiction, low self-esteem and boredom.

Life skills learnt through sport:

• Commitment & Accountability
• Communication skills
• Problem solving
• Team work
• Dealing with stress, and;
• Goal setting and Future Planning

Additional benefits of sport engagement:

• Overall improvements in health and mental health
• Self-confidence
• Increased sense of social inclusion and community participation, and;
• Self-discipline

Featured Sport Programmes

SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Saturday Night Lights, or SNL, takes underprivileged and youth at-risk off the streets on Saturday nights to give them formal football training and a community of support — without charge. Seven years since it started, SNL has grown from a football programme to a development programme, and many SNL youth have gone beyond participating in just football training to regular community volunteering and even leadership courses.

SWIMMING PROGRAMME

Since its inception in 2016, the SportCares Swimming Programme has been making waves across Singapore by equipping youth at-risk with water confidence skills. Aside from helping them improve their basic swimming proficiency, the programme positively impacts their lives by providing them with a safe space to express themselves and develop leadership skills while being part of a sporting family. Under the mentorship of Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) approved swimming coaches, youth undergo a series of weekly training sessions that help to hone both their mental and physical abilities.

OTHER SPORTS

• Futsal (community-based programme)
• Rugby
• Floorball
• Sailing
• Athletics
• Sepak Takraw
• E-sports
• Triathlon
• Mixed Martial Arts
• Outdoor Adventure