The goal of this guidebook is to provide youth workers with a Competency Framework for youth sports workers for the inclusion of youngsters with different abilities. This framework is fully innovative and based on our first-hand experience as youth workers.
Before introducing the framework, however, we deem important to introduce some basic definitions and methodologiesy that should be known to organize and deliver quality work.

• For this reason, Chapters 1-4 contain the theoretical and methodological framework connected with youth sports work and youth work with youngsters with different abilities.

• Chapter 1 is dedicated to a definition of youth work and non-formal education, which represent the main concepts on which our work is based.
  

• Chapter 2 is dedicated to the inclusion of youngsters with different abilities in youth work activities, as we deem it important to provide a brief introduction to the target group of youngsters this booklet aims to include.

• Chapter 3 is dedicated to the concepts of youth sports work and education through sports, emphasizing the differences and similarities between youth sports work and “regular” sports activities.
  

• Chapter 4 is dedicated to including people with disabilities in sports activities, providing a few starting points to organize sports activities including people with different abilities.

• Chapters 5-6 introduce the Competency Framework for youth sports workers for the inclusion of youngsters with different abilities. This part, fully innovative, presents the competencies needed to perform quality youth sports work including youngsters with different abilities. We also explain how to adapt the framework to different organizations, to ensure the material could be useful in different settings with different goals.