"Neighborhoods" is a program of social promotion that, like the other programs of Fútbol Más, it uses the strategy of "Sport for Development" with the aim of establishing protected areas for children and young people (NNJ) in their communities. Through a plan of activities that involves the whole neighborhood, seeks to provide children life skills, increase their sense of belonging and strengthen the perception of the community spaces where NNJ feel protected. 
  
This is a comprehensive intervention aimed at providing those who participate in the program a biopsychosocial welfare, with the understanding that the populations with high rates of vulnerability in need of support and answers that meet their needs biological, psychological and social. If good "Neighborhoods" and focuses on NNJ, also considers the possibility of the participation of adults and adults, in order to activate them and they committed to the protection and care of children. 
  
Unlike other programs of Football, "Neighborhoods" works in the public space, a territory not protected by an institution, and from that logic thematically offers no restrictions, in such a way that their guidelines are those that are born of the own organization (Football) or that are erected in the same territory. 
  
To "Neighborhoods", the social component is significant. When it is suggested that resilience is a concept crucial to the work that is developed in NNJ, this should not be understood individually. The process of resilience in NNJ, it will be much more effective to the extent that the whole community is involved in developing it, so as not to be understood only from the individual but from the collective. For the same, "Neighborhood" includes many activities and different lines of action within which the following stand out: community meetings to the interior of the neighborhoods and among them, the sessions sociodeportivas, training of leaders, and parents/ace and management of community networks. 

Sessions sociodeportivas 

The program "Neighborhood" has a direct operation in the communities in which it is embedded. A professional in the area of physical education deals with issuing the session sociodeportiva, while a professional in the social area is responsible for putting in place the enabling environment, that is to say, everything that surrounds the session. Abounding in details, the enabling environment, and have a material significance in the success of the activities, as it aims to coordinate a network or the community fabric —together of neighbors, police station, stores, schools, among others— in order to make the pitch that made the session a protected space. 
  
The pitch is the space where is the focus of the program. It is there where they meet children and young people. Many times, in these communities, the court has ceased to be a protected space for children. In this sense, it is necessary to do a recovery workout, which basically consists in re-to be used for the game and sports for children and young people, without distinction of gender or age. The particular feature of the court, unlike a closed space, is that all the activities are carried out in view and the patience of the neighbors, which adds complexity to the planning and execution of this program. 
  
Your character sociodeportivo distinguishes the sessions of the program "Neighborhoods" of the traditional classes of physical education. If it is common in these is that the teacher start the job by passing list and ordering those involved to warm up for ten minutes, at a session of the program "Neighborhoods" of those who are involved, for example, at the meeting of a comrade or companion, express an emotion and the other must identify it, then make zigzag, take a breastplate, was put to a colleague or partner, and only then say this. That is to say, in this boot not only spent the list and calentaste, also worked on the expression and identification of emotions, the team work and coordination through a dynamic displacement motor. The logic of the whole session is guided by this merger between the social and sports, where the football is an excuse to articulate other objectives. 
  
In fact, the social concept is understood by the program "Neighborhoods" in an extensive way. We say "social" and on that concept, we include psychological, emotional, emotional. When you mix these areas with the technical, tactical and the physical, the result is a methodology sociodeportiva that offers a great differential for More Soccer and its programs. 
  
In this sense, the development of skills for life is at the center of the learning program. What are those skills?: trust, empathy, identification and expression of emotions, the resolution assertive conflict, moral reasoning, self-confidence, self-regulation, self-esteem, and self-knowledge. The power to transfer these skills to NNJ allows empowering them with respect to the destination of your days and be able to act in line with what they want to do in their lives. 
  
The program "Neighborhood" has an average duration of nine months, the minimum frequency is four days a week, the sessions have a duration of an hour and a half and is intended as a complement to the time that the child spends in school. In this way, will reach the total of seven hours of sport per week for girls and boys recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which makes it such a program is highly valued by communities, municipalities and companies that have areas of direct influence.  

History

The origins of the program "Neighborhoods" dating back to 2008, and is intertwined with the birth of Football. Initially the program was deployed in five neighborhoods of Santiago de Chile: two of the commune of The Mirror, two of Huechuraba, and one High Bridge and it was this scenario neighborhood and systemic who leaves installed from the beginning, the importance and expertisse that has created the Foundation in community cohesion.

In the beginning, the media were not abundant and the hands were not enough, so that the professional Football should be "multiply" in different roles: from making classes to become psychologists, through the sale of projects, talks with the families, the containment in NNJ and family when the situation dictated it. 
  
The approach to the communities, independent of the country, it was always the same: a flipchart glued to the edge of the court announced to the realization of free workshops of football. And trascartón establishing a dialogue with the interlocutor's natural neighbourhood: the board of neighbors. As usual it was the suspicion and mistrust of neighbors. The previous experiences with other organizations used to leave some sequels, because usually had interests in the middle. When it is learned that Football is not dependent on any political party or of any church, and that, in addition, the neighbors should not pay for their sons and daughters to be able to have access to the workshops, the mistrust is atenuaban. And when interiorizaban the main objective of the program —generating a protected space for the children, the fear disappeared. 
  
The fundamental thing in all the experiences of the program "Neighborhood" has been the respect with which the professional Football have come closest to the communities. Far from any desire of superiority or of wanting to impose its own view, all the processes of intervention in the neighborhood has been in the hands of the community and always under the protection of respect. 
  
On many occasions, very close to the stadium where Football was their sessions were groups of young people with attitudes challenging. Far from forcing a confrontation with them, the first few weeks the strategy of the organization and the professional has always been the cordial greeting to those young people; in the second week, the boys and girls responded to the gesture; to the third, they were asked which they could continue on their own, but not so close to the stadium. So, the month already had a relationship with these groups, they established trusts and even they themselves were offered to, for example, to make music when he engaged in League Football. 
  
The first learning from those experiences germ was that if the program is not established in the dialogue and respect, not going to get anything. 

Within the different lines of action that introduces the program, one of the most striking is that known as "League Football". Each month, we selected a group of players and players to play a match against the selection of one of the neighborhoods where it was installed the program. Beyond the importance of representing your neighborhood, you'd generate a dynamic, very attractive for both the NNJ as it is for adults and adults who accompanied them, and that they should officiate at a first instance of hosts, and in a second instance of visitors. In that logic, when they were to receive the guest team, organized to give you a warm welcome, they sold food, made bingo. That way, when they assumed the role of visitors, they had money to pay for a bus that transportase, while those who were of local replicated what they had experienced in the court next to me. 
  
If well, or the neighbors or the neighboring one, and another quarter had lived the experience of being hosts and visitors, which searches for the exercise of hospitality is to promote self-management, they are able to organize themselves to be able to access not just an income by way of make a bingo or a completed, but also that they can apply for funds that will allow them to grow that seed that Football put in those neighborhoods. 

One of the most important elements of the program "Neighborhoods", which is also part of other programs and the essence of Football, is the green card. Away from the logic of yellow and red cards of association football, associated to the warning and punishment, the green card seeks to reward and highlight in the other actions or gestures that are beneficial for our environment and life in the community. So, at the end of the class, the CHILDREN form a circle and do the exercise of recognizing in the other a virtue, something positive, without expecting anything in return:

—Carlos made a goal, and that's why we wear Green Card.
—Martha is a good friend and this Green Card is for her.

So, who received more green cards becomes the captain of the team, providing a logic that rewards more than the talent of football to be good people.

On The Foreshore —a typical population of Antofagasta, a city located in the north of Chile, a small residential area in the desert floor, terraced houses and rucos, area floods and tidal waves— live close to 1700 families of different nationalities: chileans, colombians and venezuelans, among others. Until there came More Football in 2011 to work with the boys and girls in the multi court community in the neighborhood. The work paid off, and by 2014 the number of participants had grown. Jhordy and Anderson added green card session to session. Jhordy was a child, very good for football; Anderson had a rare disease that for years kept him isolated from his peers, his strong lay in their ability to recognize the good in others.

Thanks to the leadership of both, his team qualified to play in the national finals of the Football leagues More. Both, along with seven other children between eight and eleven years old, traveled by plane for the first time and became fascinated in the courts of Quilín getting the title of champions. They returned to the neighborhood with the cup, and were welcomed as heroes in an experience that neither they nor the community of Sandy beaches forget never.

As A result of the disease that I had, Anderson died a few years after that experience. His father dismissed him by dressing with the t-shirt of your team and the rider of the captain, because the years that he was in Football, as his father had said, were the most beautiful of your life.

Monitoring and evaluation 

"Neighborhoods" began with close to 300 beneficiaries in its first year of existence (2008). Fifteen years later, sum 86 communities operated globally, with an estimated 17 thousand NNJ who have gone through the program. The evaluation of the same passes through three fundamental pillars: mental health, physical health, and the degree of belonging to the community. In this sense, this last variable is the most important of all. Therefore, a good portion of the questions in the assessment is oriented to the issue of membership: do I feel part of this neighborhood?, here in the neighborhood I have friends that I can trust?, I like to go out to play to the pitch of the neighborhood? Are the fundamental questions at the time of analysing the success of the program. 

The assessment argues, in addition, on the three pillars of nouns. 

1. The continuous improvement of the program. In the understanding that this is a pioneering experience, More Football understands that it is of the utmost importance to correct and learn from mistakes. The evaluation works, in this sense, as a mechanism of improvement of the components used in the program. 
2. Return to the community. From the inputs provided by the program, be alert to the community in respect of children or young people who may be going through boxes of depression or problems concerning your physical health. 
3. Generation of incidence outside. All data obtained throughout the nine months that lasts each program is put at the disposal of the different programs of sport for development or public policy associated with the topic. In that sense, they have already been generated, a series of agreements with relevant institutions, such as universities, to objects of that information qinstaue we collect may be useful for research or papers. 
   
   As time has passed, being a software-eminently the city, has expanded to areas and more rural communities more closed. This has happened in countries like Mexico, where it involved populations hundred percent indigenous, were forced to work a lot of respect and research the entire time the program is soaked of the rites and the characteristics of these communities in order to integrate them to work in the sessions sociodeportivas. The same thing happened in Peru, more specifically in Astobamba —4,400 meters above sea level, where there was an adaptation to a culture that has a connection with their ancestors and with the nature, a very marked. Without going more far, one of the beneficiaries came every day with your kitty Ruby, to which he got from his milk and was feeding him minutes prior to joining the meetings of Football.