Change-up. Change your life through adventure

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The Change-Up project will be based on a participatory approach that aims to increase knowledge and create a tailor-made adventure intervention for youth at risk. The project aims to design, through documented literature, theory, expertise, and experience that the partners involved in the project have, an outdoor sport adventure program that will enhance staff providing services to at-risk youth. The Change-Up project aims to highlight and support the relationship between participation in outdoor sports activities in nature and the empowerment of youth at risk. The main objectives of the project are to develop and implement an innovative adventure-based therapy program in order to: 1. Emphasize the use of outdoor sports activities as an early intervention to prevent at-risk youth from social exclusion. 2. Improve access and equal opportunity for vulnerable youth 3. Provide capacity development of the staff of the project partners' organization. 4. Encourage cross-sector collaboration In this framework, the Change—Up project aims to be an early intervention to support 15 youth-at-risk by implementing outdoor sport activities using adventure therapy methodology. The project goal is to act as a «window of opportunity» for behavior change and empowerment through a positive environment. The specific objectives of the Change-up project are: • To encourage young people to adopt new behaviors • Increasing social competence • To re-establish a sense of self-worth • To promote and provide opportunities for achievement through sports participation in order to improve competence/mastery. • To boost their self-esteem by excelling at something. • To improve one's sense of social coherence and the meaning of life • Priority should be given to prevention, safer communities, equality, and resilience.