The document discusses Dream A Dream's Sports for Development of Life Skills program which uses sports to teach vulnerable children important life skills. The program partners with NGOs and sports academies to provide coaching sessions 2 times per week that focus on both sports and life skill development for children ages 7-13. Assessments show the program is effectively improving participants' life skills like interpersonal skills and willingness to follow instructions over time. The program has reached over 3,000 children through sports like football, rugby, and hockey.

1. Sports for Development of Life Skills Dream A Dream Presentation May 19, 2010

2. Few things possess more power than empowering children from vulnerable backgrounds with life skills Life skills provide a child with the “tools” necessary for engaging with life in a wholesome manner

3. Dream A Dream’s vision Empowering children from vulnerable backgrounds with life coping skills & at the same time sensitizing the community through active volunteering.

4. The Big Idea Life skills are fundamental to child/youth development, to the successful transition into adulthood and becoming fully functioning and productive members of our society. Conceptualizing Dream Life Skills Development Program as an intervention that supplements regular schooling and helps Completing Education for vulnerable children

5. About Dream A Dream 10 years old Reach out to 2200 children through 9 NGO Partners A network of over 1500 volunteers Offer 5 Life Skills programs Sports Creative Arts Adventure Life Skills for Career Development Mentoring

6. Objectives - Dream Sports Program Moving beyond the child’s basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, academic education and focusing on developing life skills through the medium of sports Non-traditional educational opportunities Designed to explore, innovate and build important life skills. Use fun and experiential mediums

7. Program Structure Partnership model (Dream A Dream- Owner of the program, Partner NGO- giving accessibility to Children, Sporting Academy- Providing Professional Coaches) Project period- Min - 3 years and max - 8 years for School going children Enrolment - 7 to 13 years Sessions - 90 minutes long sessions, 2 times in a week. Average of 60-65 sessions in a year for batch Training coaches on Life Skills and Creative Engagement with Children

8. Children in Dream Sports Table Tennis 2 12 2003-04 TT, Hockey 3 32 2004-05 TT, Hockey 3 50 2005-06 Football, Rugby 6 650 2009-10 Football Rugby 13 1650 2010-11 Football 100 30000 2011-12 TT, Hockey, Football, Rugby 3 96 2008-09 TT, Hockey, Football 5 78 2007-08 TT, Hockey, Football, Basketball 4 82 2006-07 Sports Offered No Of NGO’s No of Children Year

9. Life Skills Assessment : Using 5 point Life Skills assessment Scale. Assessing children 2 times in a year (Baseline-June and End term-February) Coach training in Life Skills, Assessments and Creative Engagement with children Using existing school infrastructure for cost efficiencies Partnership with sports coaching academies Developing in-house Life Skills Sports Coach training program amongst youth Program Innovations

10. Program Impact A sophisticated quantitative measurement, Dream Life Skills Assessment Tool , is used to assess the effectiveness of the medium in delivering life skill curriculum and to measure child’s progress on life skills parameters

11. Program Delivery A Comparative Picture Creative Arts Program Sports (Rugby) Program Dream Sports program impacts all life-skills parameters uniformly Dream Creative Arts Programs helps bring maximum improvement on 2 of the life skills parameters: Child’s Interpersonal skills and ability to understand concepts / willingness to Follow instructions

12. Number of children Dispersion range : 1.0-3.0 Overall performance on life-skill parameters Dream Sports (Rugby) Program Sports effective in long-term Baseline evaluation Mid term evaluation Reference school: Round Table School average batch age – 11 years

13. The Football Story Number of children Overall performance on life-skills parameters over a period of 3 years In 2007 we inducted 15 children from partner NGO- Ananya in our Dream Football. 5 of the children still continue to attend the program. Range : 1-3.7 Overall performance on life-skill parameters : Improvement in the group’s performance on the life-skills parameters over 3 years Year 2007 Dispersion range: Min: 1.0 ; Max: 2.2 Group average: 1.64 Year 2008 Dispersion range: Min: 2.3; Max: 3.1 Group average : 2.68 Year 2008 Dispersion range: Min: 2.4; Max: 3.7 Group average : 3.1

14. Prasanna Prasanna, 19 years old currently works as a Sports Leader in our Dream Football Program and completing his high school (Pre University Course). To quote Prasanna, “ I adore to learn about computers, reading books, playing hockey, also I want to study further . ”

15. Arunkumar Arunkumar, 19 years old currently works as a Sports Leader in our Dream Football Program and plays professional Hockey “ Now, at 19, it’s my turn to ‘give back’ to nurture Dream Sports Program such that many children like me can grow up with hope and live their dream.”

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