'Leaders Like Us': Co-designing a framework to develop young physical activity leader programmes for girls from underserved groups

儿童和年轻人的身体活动（PA）水平存在顽固的不平等。女孩、来自贫困地区和少数民族背景的人最不活跃。PA水平的不平等因COVID-19大流行而加剧（Bingham等人，2021年）。PA水平低的后果在儿童和成人的健康，福祉和学术成果中发挥作用。解决PA不平等问题是英格兰体育最新战略的核心，团结运动（英格兰体育，2021年）。与年轻人相关的PA领导人（由于年龄，性别，背景，种族等相似性）可以参与最不活跃的活动，因为他们表明PA可以为像他们这样的人服务，让年轻人感到舒适。然而，英国的PA劳动力主要是白色和男性，这导致来自服务不足群体的女性PA水平较低（Sport England，2018）。国际残疾人与健康学会（ISPAH）最近发布了一项行动呼吁，倡导体育和残疾人劳动力的多样化和技能提升，作为基于系统的方法的关键组成部分，以增加残疾人的人口水平和减少不平等（ISPAH，2020）。培养巴勒斯坦权力机构的年轻女性领导人有助于积极的青年发展，这可以建立可持续的巴勒斯坦权力机构，改善服务不足社区的年轻女性的生活环境。尽管有几个年轻的PA领导力计划正在交付由不同的供应商在英国各地，没有专门针对服务不足的群体的女孩，他们专注于体育（而不是PA更广泛），他们是不是evidence-based.This研究将共同制作一个框架，由PYD支持，为发展年轻女性PA领导人从服务不足的群体（这里描述为“像我们这样的领导人”）。为了简洁起见，我们使用“女性”和“女孩”这两个词，但我们的目标是包括16-25岁的年轻人，他们认为自己是女性，非二元或其他少数性别。“像我们这样的领导者”可用于㈠调整现有方案，以支持接受和向得不到充分服务的女孩群体提供服务，㈡制定新的、适合当地情况的方案，这些方案受益于提高的质量和稳健性，但仍具有适应性。该框架将包括关于如何从服务不足的群体中识别、招募和保持与年轻女孩（16 - 25岁）的接触的指导方针，概述PA年轻女性领导者方案的学习成果，并为与特定服务不足的群体合作提供建议。我们将通过两个阶段的方法，以双钻石方法为基础，开发“像我们这样的领导者”（设计理事会，2015年）。第一阶段的重点是发现;我们将系统地规划现有的巴勒斯坦权力机构青年领导人培训方案，并与参与制定和提供针对服务不足群体的方案的利益攸关方进行重点小组讨论，以了解什么是有效的，为什么有效以及如何有效。第二阶段侧重于发展。我们将通过一系列研讨会，与来自服务不足群体、从业人员和学术合作伙伴的一系列年轻女性共同设计“像我们这样的领导者”。然后，我们将通过有声思维访谈测试其可接受性和可行性。“像我们这样的领导人”将有助于在实践中推动青年领导人发展方面的积极变化，因为它提供了一种基于证据的资源，以支持制定相关的地方方案，满足来自服务不足群体的女性的需求。这将有助于建立一个社会公正和性别平衡的巴勒斯坦权力机构劳动力队伍，并最终促进女孩和年轻妇女终身参与巴勒斯坦权力机构。

There are stubborn inequalities in children and young people's physical activity (PA) levels. Girls, and people from deprived areas and ethnic minority backgrounds are the least active. Inequalities in PA levels have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic (Bingham et al., 2021). The consequences of low levels of PA play out in child and adult health, wellbeing and academic outcomes. Tackling PA inequalities is at the heart of Sport England's latest strategy, Uniting the Movement (Sport England, 2021).PA leaders who young people relate to (due to similarities in, for example, age, gender, background, ethnicity) can engage the least active, as they show that PA can be for people like them, and make the young people feel comfortable. However, the UK PA workforce is largely white and male, which contributes to lower levels of PA in females from underserved groups (Sport England, 2018). The International Society for PA and Health (ISPAH) has recently published a call to action, which advocates for diversification and upskilling of the sport and PA workforce as a key component of a systems-based approach to increasing population levels of PA and reducing inequalities (ISPAH, 2020). Developing young female PA leaders contributes to positive youth development (PYD), which can build sustainable PA provision and improve the life circumstances of young females from underserved communities. Despite several young PA leadership programmes being delivered by different providers across the UK, none have been specifically designed to target underserved groups of girls, they focus on sport (rather than PA more broadly) and they are not evidence-based.This research will co-produce a framework, underpinned by PYD, for developing young female PA leaders from underserved groups (herein described as 'Leaders Like Us'). We use the terms 'female' and 'girls' for brevity purposes, but we aim to be inclusive of young people aged 16-25 who identify as female, non-binary or other minority genders. 'Leaders Like Us' can be used i) to adapt existing programmes to support uptake and delivery to underserved groups of girls, and ii) to develop new, locally-tailored programmes that benefit from enhanced quality and robustness but remain adaptable. The framework will include guidelines on how to identify, recruit and maintain engagement with young girls (aged 16 - 25) from underserved groups, outline learning outcomes for young female PA leader programmes, and provide recommendations for working with specific underserved groups.We will develop 'Leaders Like Us' through a two-phased approach, underpinned by the Double Diamond approach (Design Council, 2015). Phase 1 focuses on discovery; we will systematically map existing young PA leader training programmes, and conduct focus groups with stakeholders involved in developing and delivering programmes which target underserved groups, to understand what works, why and how. Phase 2 focuses on development. We will co-design 'Leaders Like Us' with a range of young females from underserved groups, practitioners and academic partners, through a series of workshops. We will then test its acceptability and feasibility through think-aloud interviews.'Leaders Like Us' will help drive positive change in young leader development in practice, as it provides an evidence-based resource to support the development of local programmes that are relevant and meet the needs of females from underserved groups. This will help work towards a socially just and gender-balanced PA workforce, and ultimately promote lifelong participation in PA in girls and young women.