Zenit St Petersburg - Community Cohesion / Center of social Rehabilitation "Contact"

Ambassadors: Andrey Zubkov, Igor Volkhin.

Main life skills: Problem-solving, Communication, Self-identification and Sense of Community

About the program: Zenit St Petersburg is starting a new One Team program together with Contact, a local center of social rehabilitation. The center’s main goal is the prevention of anti-social behavior among children and young people. Contact’s staff monitors daily more than 1,800 under 18s who have behaviour problems.

In the program, 20 participants, aged 15-16, will participate in weekly on-court sessions, starting from October 2020 until February 2021. The main life skills to be taught during the sessions are problem-solving, communication, self-identification and encouraging a sense of community. The program also counts on the involvement of a coach and psychologist from Zenit.