Civil
Association
Fokus Mladá Boleslav
Fokus
sport team
1)
Target group:
Participants in this program are people with
experience of mental health problems from the region Mlada Boleslav.We also cooperate with the clients from Prague and
Usti nad Labem organisations who we invite for tournaments abroad and who also
participate with their own teams in tournaments in Czech Republic .At the moment
we are in contact with 30 clients
2)
Focus:
Our team is particulary focused on football but it has already taken part in volleyball
tournaments as well. In the future we would like extend our offer for other
sports. At the moment our main activities are regular meetings at the trainings,
participation in tournaments abroad and home tournaments which are organized by
Fokus Mlada Boleslav and are called Fokus Cup.
3)
Philosophy:
The main idea is sport as a
method of rehabilation .People with experience of mental health problems often suffer from
a loss of
self-confidence and sense of realization. Life consists from free basic needs:
work, living and leasure time.Organisation providing care about mentally ill
people work with these three dimension and try to offer conditions to restore
their self-confidence and provide them place for realization.Sport football is
one of the possibilities to give them chance to participate in some events or
to be good at something what is important for them what they like doing what
they can do.Our sport team is one of the possibilities to meet regularly,
communicate with other people, learn new things, which are necessary for
complete resocialisation of mentally ill people. In sport it is possible to
experience all the emotions according to stated rules, either emotions conected
with pleasure and success or emotion conected with disapointment, sadness and
sometimes agresion and I think that this is important.
4)
History:
Our team first played at the tournament in Linze in 1998 and since then has regularly visited tournaments in Germany and Italy too.We also organise tournament in Czech.This year we have organise forth year of Fokus Cup.Next year there will be big sport meeting in England and we are invited too
5)
Future:
Whithin the bounds of long term international
meetings the participant decided to found common organisation, unit ideas of
sport rehabilitation and find the way how to finance our meetings.This year the
working group E.A.S.I. European Association for Sport and Social integration was
established in order to deal this reason. In future E.A.S.I. would like to be
authorised organisation and fully realise its ideas.
On our Italian colleagues initiative we applied for
grant
For project „ Sport for learning“, which wants to
focus on creating network of european
organizations which provide sport programs for people with mental health
problems and create
Official study about sport rehabilitation. In the future we
are going to visit international sport events and to organise our own meetings
in Czech Republic.
Program for 2004:
February: International indoor tournaments,
Steyer(Austria)
Květen: International tournaments,Regenbogen
Cup, Mnichov(Germany)
June: International EASI Cup, Oxford(England)
Jully: Mezinárodní turnaj, Plattling(Germany)
August: International training camp, Czech Republic
September:International tournament, Linz(Austria)
October:International tournament, Manchester(England)
Jan Drobný
Fokus Mladá
Boleslav
coordinator of sport program