Alle Skal Med!

Children & youth

May 4

Written By Annikken Grieg Sæthre

Who: Idrett Bergen Sør

What: Alle Skal Med

Where: Bergen, Norway

Project period: 2025-2026

About the project

Children and young people aged 8-18 years affiliated with the municipal or specialist health service who do not have a suitable pool facility in their local environment (sports club, school and health service), but who have great mastery experiences in the pool. Physical activity is known to provide a number of positive health benefits for children and young people. Not only does physical activity contribute to a healthy and strong body. Physical activity is also an important arena for experiencing coping and social community, and can help to create meaning and structure in everyday life.

Unfortunately, there is currently no suitable activity offer for everyone. Especially children and young people who need special adaptation measures in activity may have difficulty finding an offer that suits their needs. Fortunately, some of the children and young people receive good activity offers through the health service, patient organizations or ordinary and adapted activities in sports teams. Unfortunately, some of these children and young people fall "between two chairs", where they neither have offers in the health service, are affiliated with a relevant patient organization, or have ordinary or adapted offers in their local environment that suit them and their needs.

The risk that these children and young people will drop out of sports and activity is great. Dropping out of sports and physical activity is not desirable in view of the positive health benefits that physical activity provides, as well as the important social arena that sports and activity can be. To prevent such dropouts, adapted activity offers in a safe environment with competent instructors will be essential to ensure an activity offer that is adapted to the individual.

About the organization

Idrett Bergen Sør focuses on public health and works according to the vision "Together to improve public health". IBS wants to reach those groups that often fall outside of ordinary sports. The Delfana swimming club was established in 1974 with the purpose of offering swimming lessons and swimming training for both young and old. Through many years of experience, the swimming club has developed a high level of expertise in swimming lessons for both children, young people and adults who are not able to swim.

The centre for Children and Young People at Haukeland University Hospital (EBU) works to ensure that children and young people with special needs experience mastery, the joy of movement and community in physical activity In the project "Alle skal med", Idrett Bergen Sør, EBU at Haukeland University Hospital and the Delfana Swimming Club have very good experience in collaborating to provide children and young people who "fall between two chairs" with adapted activity offers in swimming pools. The activity offer is intended to be a springboard to ordinary or adapted activity offers in the child's or young person's immediate environment, where the child/young person has their social network.