Sports AWARE

Sports AWARE is a multifaceted Youth Solutions’ project for local sporting clubs that includes:

• Educational workshops for young sportspeople aged 12 – 17 years
• Information sessions for supporters (parents and carers and/or coaches/club staff)
• Interactive outreach activities at game days or training sessions

Sports AWARE aims to prevent young sportspeople from experiencing drug and alcohol related harm by:

• educating and empowering young players to be safe, and to keep others safe, around drugs and alcohol and
• increasing the knowledge and skills of coaching/club staff, parents and carers to ensure they can confidently and effectively support their young players around drug and alcohol issues

Through the Sports AWARE workshops, young sportspeople will learn about:

• The effects and harms of drugs and alcohol
• Safety around drugs and alcohol
• Drugs and alcohol in the context of the law and other regulations
• Responding to an emergency
• Positive ways to keep healthy and well
• Positive role models
• Help and support services and strategies

Through Sports AWARE, your players will gain skills in:

• Assessing safety and risk
• Mitigating risk around drugs and alcohol
• Emergency first aid provision
• Positive role modelling, including identifying positive role models
• Strategies for keeping self healthy
• Accessing help and support

These workshops for young players are complemented by community outreach activities at local sports game days or training sessions as well as the implementation of information sessions for coaching/management staff, parents and carers that aim to increase the knowledge and skills of those supporting young sportspeople.