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Young men's health - Sports Health Initiative

Movember Funding to Date

Global funding AUD equivalent 16,216,091

What we seek to achieve

To improve young men's mental health via sporting environments by; - improving their ability to successfully navigate the stressors of adolescence - reducing the likelihood of young men utilising unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Country
Canada
Implemented by
Movember
Project start date
March 2024
Project Status
In progress

About the project

This initiative aims to utilise the unique elements of sport to nurture healthy behaviours, support identify formation and increase social connectedness in young men, leading to improved mental health outcomes. It will also tackle risk factors for poor mental health which are exacerbated by the sport environment, including unhelpful masculine norms, tolerance of violence and aggressive behaviour and overuse/acceptability of unhealthy coping behaviours (such as gambling and alcohol). The initiative will do this through delivering two programs of work. 

1) Strategic sports health partnerships - working collaboratively with organisations that have the capability and influence to directly impact their sports infrastructure; implementing jointly agreed programs and research initiatives that improve the sporting environment and encourage individual behaviour change for young men. This program will also focus on reaching young men who traditionally don’t play sport (including marginalised communities), using sport as an engagement tool and leverage off the capacity created by mega sporting events to build long term capacity and capability in community sports settings. 
 
2) Catalysing sports systems change - working collaboratively with relevant organisations to develop and implement sports sector wide guidelines and principles to improve psychological safety of sport for young men and other participants; building and implementing evidence to solve problems across sport; and with our strategic sports partners developing a global community of practice network for collective impact. 

Collectively, these programs across individual behaviour change, social norms and systems change will contribute to achieving our goals of enhancing the mental health of young men by improving their ability to successfully navigate the stressors of adolescence and reducing their likelihood of utilising unhealthy coping mechanisms.
 

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