Parent's role in Youth Sports and the Operational Environment in Volunteering - Parent's guide book for YMCA Heinola
Ikonen, Linda (2016)
Ikonen, Linda
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016121420298
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016121420298
Tiivistelmä
Sport club environment includes parents in the process a lot. Parents have a huge influence on the on-going actions in sport clubs. Parents are the running force, together with the sport club’s administration. Parents make their child’s hobbies possible and are in a great role to support them.
The objective of this thesis is to make a guidebook for the parents in YMCA Heinola. Parents point of view has been taken into consideration. All the information collected for the thesis is to get as much benefits of the process for the club as possible. The point of making thesis about parent’s behavioural models and their tasks in YMCA Heinola has been done as a commission from the club. YMCA Heinola values parent’s input in the club’s working surrounding. The guidebook for the parents of YMCA Heinola includes different tasks for the parents. Parents are given instructions how to participate in the voluntary work and how much YMCA Heinola appreciates the input of the parents.
The guidebook was composed in the collaboration with the executive manager, the members and the board of YMCA Heinola. The process included a questionnaire for the parents, meetings with the board, the coaches and the executive manager. The thesis was tried to build to benefit as many parents in the club as possible.
The finished guidebook for parents of YMCA is attached at the end of this thesis. The club can use the product as a brief introduction for the new parents involved in youth sport. In the future YMCA Heinola can update the information collected and change the facts as the operational environment changes.
The objective of this thesis is to make a guidebook for the parents in YMCA Heinola. Parents point of view has been taken into consideration. All the information collected for the thesis is to get as much benefits of the process for the club as possible. The point of making thesis about parent’s behavioural models and their tasks in YMCA Heinola has been done as a commission from the club. YMCA Heinola values parent’s input in the club’s working surrounding. The guidebook for the parents of YMCA Heinola includes different tasks for the parents. Parents are given instructions how to participate in the voluntary work and how much YMCA Heinola appreciates the input of the parents.
The guidebook was composed in the collaboration with the executive manager, the members and the board of YMCA Heinola. The process included a questionnaire for the parents, meetings with the board, the coaches and the executive manager. The thesis was tried to build to benefit as many parents in the club as possible.
The finished guidebook for parents of YMCA is attached at the end of this thesis. The club can use the product as a brief introduction for the new parents involved in youth sport. In the future YMCA Heinola can update the information collected and change the facts as the operational environment changes.