{"id":1023,"date":"2011-08-23T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2011-08-23T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:24:29","slug":"research-increasing-the-engagement-of-young-people-in-positive-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/08\/23\/research-increasing-the-engagement-of-young-people-in-positive-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Increasing the engagement of young people in positive activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In depth research was undertaken to investigate the benefits and barriers to young people engaging with positive out of school activities. There are several key messages to take away including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>three quarters of young people engage in some form of activity but for lower income and rural young people this dips to less than half.<\/li>\n<li>barriers to engagement include poor access to information and parental attitudes.<\/li>\n<li>proven benefits include better relationships with adults and particularly teachers and parents which can be transferred to in-school activities.<\/li>\n<li>effective strategies for engagement include communicating specific benefits rather than the generic benefit of participation being a &#8216;good thing&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the pdf of the research document here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c4eo.org.uk\/themes\/youth\/positiveactivities\/files\/positive_activities_research_summary.pdf\">http:\/\/www.c4eo.org.uk\/themes\/youth\/positiveactivities\/files\/positive_activities_research_summary.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In depth research was undertaken to investigate the benefits and barriers to young people engaging with positive out of school activities. There are several key messages to take away including: three quarters of young people engage in some form of activity but for lower income and rural young people this dips to less than half. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2011\/08\/23\/research-increasing-the-engagement-of-young-people-in-positive-activities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research: Increasing the engagement of young people in positive activities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,1026,1029,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-drama-news","category-health-wellbeing-news","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}