Co-Developing Trauma-Aware Approaches in Forced Migrant Youth Sport, 2024-2025

This participatory project was conducted in collaboration with the staff and Youth Advisory Board (YAB) at I Speak Football. We aimed to build evidence around best practice in trauma-aware community sport and leisure programming with young people from refugee backgrounds. The research objectives include:

RO1: To explore how young people from refugee backgrounds understand trauma-aware approaches in sport and leisure and to co-develop trauma-aware principles that reflect what matters most to them.

RO2: To examine how community sport and leisure practitioners and coaches make sense of, implement and evaluate trauma-aware sport programmes.

RO3: To empower & enhance the capacity of the youth advisory board.

I Speak Football collaborated in developing the research aims/ objectives and research design, and conducting the analysis. We conducted 15 interviews with coaches and practitioners who design/deliver community sport/leisure programmes for young people from refugee backgrounds & 4 participatory share and learn workshops with the I Speak Football YAB/staff.

This data set includes 15 transcripts from the interviews with practitioners and the interview guide.