Community experience sport
The Community Sports Experience ( GES ) has been implementing sports educational programs in Stuttgart since 1995 . It started in the three Stuttgart districts of Feuerbach , Wangen and Stuttgart-West . The GES is now active in all 23 districts of Stuttgart.
The GES is of central importance in the sports structure, also beyond the city limits. For its many years of work at the interface between sport and social affairs, the GES was awarded the most highly endowed social award in Germany, the integration award of the German Football Association and Mercedes-Benz.
The seat of the GES is in the SpOrt Stuttgart in Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt , right next to the Mercedes-Benz Arena . The sponsors of the program are the Sportkreis Stuttgart eV and the state capital Stuttgart as well as the Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport (in the model phase from 1995-1998).
General
The GEMEINSCHAFTERLEBNIS SPORT (GES) offers educational opportunities in the field of "sport, games, fun, movement" with special consideration of the living situation of Stuttgart children and young people. This supports young people in their individual and social development. The GES helps to reduce or avoid disadvantage and to maintain or create positive living conditions for young people and a child and youth-friendly environment.
The offers in the GES have partly broken away from the institutional regulations of sport and offer target group-oriented, appealing and tailor-made forms of organization of sport, educational and youth work. The GES works in the run-up to the sports clubs and as a close partner of schools and child and youth welfare.
Sports, games and other physical activity pedagogical approaches are able to lead children and young people to a variety of opportunities for action and success and to create opportunities for participation, if they are integrated into a care, education and upbringing concept, as in the GES.
The main task of the program is to provide free, open sports activities geared towards the needs of children and young people. The measures in the GES are aimed at starting with the skills of the participants and developing them further depending on their personal disposition. In the various sports offers, children and young people of both sexes from all types of schools, cultures and different social backgrounds are connected, brought together and integrated. This constellation represents an ideal learning field, especially for the acquisition of social skills. To achieve this goal, it is important to build a trusting relationship with the participants.
Goals and target groups
Due to current educational, youth and sport policy challenges, the GES has set the following priorities:
- Networked and sustainable educational work at the interface of sport, school / daycare and social work
- Promotion of the life and everyday skills of children and young people - especially in disadvantaged life situations - for better (social) integration
- Promotion of tolerance, respect and awareness for a diversity culture
- Introduction to socially competent behavior
- Violence prevention - prevention and intervention in youth (group) violence
- Health prevention - anchoring exercise and sport in the everyday life of children and young people
Sports offers
The sports education offers are divided into different modules, whereby several fields of interest are covered. In general, the offers are open to everyone, free of charge and voluntary.
Regular sport offers
Since the GES was founded, regular sport offers have been the core business of the program. Around 80 offers are regularly offered once a week per school year (except during school holidays). This enables the students to try out new types of sport or new fields of activity regardless of culture, social environment and school affiliation. The number of participants varies between five and 30 participants depending on the offer. The offers usually take place between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
GETS (all-day sports experience)
Sports and games offers at all-day (elementary) schools are additional and, above all, new offers. Due to the special framework conditions at all-day schools, these offers under the motto "Sport for everyone" require additional qualifications.
Double (S) pass
Since 2012, the sport offers in double (S) pass have been an expansion of the regular sports offers. These are primarily aimed at children and young people from Stuttgart's special needs schools, whose athletic support and social skills and abilities are often poorly developed. Doppel (S) pass is financed by the Andreas and Romana von Holtzbrinck Foundation and runs until at least 2018.
Kick Mit - football connects
Since 1996 the GES has been holding open and free football tournaments on Saturday mornings. From this, the soccer tournament series “Kick Mit - Football connects” developed in 2002 in cooperation with the Stuttgart Youth House Society (StJG). The tournament series is aimed across the boroughs for girls and boys between the ages of 14 and 17 years. During the season from September to April tournaments are held in ten different halls. The placement depends on the results achieved as well as on regular participation. Through this concept, the children and adolescents are voluntarily bound to the offer over a longer period of time, which means that familiar access is achieved to some of the participants with more behavioral problems.
Night sports / basketball at midnight
With basketball at midnight (BuM), the GES reacted to the changed leisure behavior of young people, which is shifting more and more into the late evening hours. Therefore, from October to the end of May, basketball tournaments are held in three Stuttgart districts from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. In order to reach as many young people as possible, three halls are used alternately. The offer prevents nightly or social exclusion such as crime, violence and substance abuse. Youth workers from the police and social workers have the opportunity to talk to young people on site.
Night sports / nocturnal activity
The night sports division was expanded in 2007 with the addition of the active night module. The reason for the expansion was the reports in the Stuttgart press about property damage, insults or disturbances of the peace, which were often attributed to the misconduct of young people. In order to enable the young people to have a meaningful range of leisure activities, Nachtaktiv was installed as an open offer in the Sillenbuch district . In this context, the young people have the opportunity to do sports from 9.45pm to 11.15pm. In the interplay of sport, youth welfare and municipal youth participation, the offer creates optimal conditions for working with young people. Due to the increasing demand, the "Nachtaktiv" offer was expanded to include the districts of Weilimdorf , Münster , Stuttgart-Nord , Plieningen and Stammheim .
Assertion
Self-assertion courses are an important part of the work to protect children and young people from violence. Training is very important so that children and young people learn how to behave correctly in difficult situations. The GES offers three different, target group-specific self-assertion offers for children and young people between the ages of four and 18 years. The aim of all offers is to train children in such a way that they recognize dangers and learn to react to them appropriately and correctly.
“No means no” (for day care centers and grades 1 and 2): Dangerous situations are depicted through play situations and the children are encouraged to react in a solution-oriented manner. <
"Defend yourself with your head (WdmK)" (for special schools and grades 3 and 4): WdmK is a cooperation project between the Stuttgart regional council, the police and the GES. The aim of the theoretical as well as the practical offer is to promote self-assertion and moral courage. The children should acquire a basic level of self-confidence and thus behave correctly in dangerous situations.
“Safe and strong” (for child and youth welfare institutions and grades 5 to 7): The focus of this offer is on dealing with provocations as well as the acquisition of de-escalation strategies and their handling in conflicts.
Seminars and training courses
Another building block in the GES are seminars and advanced training events. Based on the experience with very heterogeneous target groups, practical advanced training modules were developed that are specifically aimed at dealing with disrupters or disorders and the appearance of sports professionals in different learning and educational settings. The target group of the training courses are people who work in different functions with groups (teachers, social workers, educators, trainers, trainers, graduates of voluntary services, ...).
partner
In order to fully exploit the educational potential of sport, the GES relies on a cooperation network with partners from various areas of society. In particular, these are schools, sports clubs, municipal offices, child and youth welfare institutions and district offices . The GES takes on a leading role in this long-term collaboration, the success of which can only be achieved through the interaction of all social groups.
Employee
There are currently eight full-time employees working at the community experience sport, who are supported by graduates of a voluntary social year (FSJ) or the Federal Voluntary Service (BFD), interns, honorary workers and volunteers. The management is incumbent on the Sportkreis Stuttgart eV