R.T.S + - Reintegration Through Sport Plus
Race4Life - Enhance motivation for behavioral change in Addiction treatment through sport
Erasmus +: Sport / Collaborative Partnerships The contribution of sport and physical activity is vital to a wide range of long-term benefits for the mental and physical health of drug addicts under-recovery. Participation in a sport-based program increases the du
ration of abstinence, improves overall physical health and stamina, and reduces emotional instability as it helps to ease stress and anxiety. Sport and physical activity are also known to provide a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction by helping the addicted person to enhance his or her self-confidence and create a better image of oneself. In addition, sports and physical activity can offer drug addicts under-recovery the opportunity to attain a pleasant mental state without having to recourse to the use of drugs, thus eventually embarking on a positive and healthy lifestyle change that is incompatible with substance abuse. The Reintegration Through Sport Plus (RTS+) project aims at utilizing sport as an alternative framework in the addiction recovery process, as of which positive behavioral outcomes can be created, by way of underscoring the relationship between sports participation and positive life skill development of drug addicts under-recovery, thereby supporting their social reintegration. To underscore the relationship between sports participation and positive life skills development of addict people under-recovery, supporting their social reintegration. To improve the implementation of physical and sport activities in addiction treatment organizations. To highlight the value of participation in physical activity and grassroots sport activities in addiction prevention. To provide opportunities for greater sport participation of drug addicts under recovery
To enrich and harmonize the way whereby sports programs are utilized during the treatment process by the therapeutic organizations, by way of designing, creating and proposing new innovative tools to support this process.
Το strengthens the cooperation between drug addiction treatment agencies and sports organizations and other relevant stakeholders. To support the capacity building of health professionals working in the field of addiction, aiming at improving the efficiency of treatment services. To develop policy recommendations of sport-based interventions in drug addiction policy frameworks. WHAT is the knowledge which RTS+ project aspires to mobilize? To develop a common understanding of the current processes of sport-based implementation in addiction recovery. To identify theoretical explanations of how life skill development through sport participation and experiential learning interlink in addiction recovery. To understand the factors that affect the participation of drug addicts under-recovery in physical activity and sport. To identify gaps in skills, knowledge, and attitudes in sport-based interventions in addiction recovery. To identify and define life skills and values to be acquired through sport participation. To identify the gaps between needs and current performance of sport-based programs implementation in addiction recovery. To identify how to effectively implement sport programs in addiction recovery
We work together:
Project Coordinator
KETHEA/Greece/ www.kethea.gr
Partners
UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY/Greece/www.pe.uth.gr
EQUAL SOCIETY/Greece/www.equalsociety.gr
A-LARM/ Norway/www.a-larm.no
ASOCIACIÓN EXPERIENTIA/Spain/www.asociacionexperientia.org
COOLMINE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY/Ireland/www.coolmine.ie
STOWARZYSZENIE MONAR/Poland/www.monar.org
CENTRO DI SOLIDARIETÀ DI REGGIO EMILIA ONLUS/Italy/www.solidarieta.re.it
ASOCIACION SPORT TO LIVE/Spain/www.sport2live.org
CZEKOBANDA/Czech Republic/www.czekobanda.eu
Join us
We invite you to join and learn more about the RTS+ project activities and to establish strong links between all those involved in Addiction Prevention, Care, and Recovery through sport. Register free to our Learning Community and stay informed about project activities at:
Website: www.rtsport.eu
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ketheasport/
Email: [email protected]
Co-funded by the Erasmus+Sport program of the European Commission, the Reintegration Through Sport PLUS project is of a duration of three years (2020 – 2022). The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
