Canakkale Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports (Çanakkale Gençlik ve Spor İl Müdürlüğü)

Çanakkale Gençlik ve Spor İl Müdürlüğü (Canakkale Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports) The Organization's activities are carried out in three main fields; namely, Youth Services, Sports Services, and Credits and Dormitories. The Organization's objectives in the field of Youth are determining policies to support youth's personal and social development, providing opportunities to young people for fulfilling their potential, considering the needs of different groups of young people, developing recommendations and taking actions about increasing youth's participation into decision making and implementation processes as well as all aspects of social life, ensuring coordination and collaboration among concerning organizations in terms of youth services. In line with these objectives, Canakkale Youth Center, functioning under the Provincial Directorate, is the unit that develops, plans and manages leisure time activities in social, cultural, artistic and sportive fields of interest for young people. Canakkale Youth Center helps young people truthfully know and present their culture and values by its recent and ongoing "Voluntary Activities" and "International Student Exchanges". The Organization, with the mission of providing extension and institutionalization of sports services and activities by modern methods, works for building the organizational capacity, increasing participation in sports, enhancing success in sports, ensuring the construction and management of sports facilities with international standards. The main goal behind all this work is dissemination of sports and active lifestyles throughout the society as cultural values. Embracing a broader population by sports is as important as bringing up successful athletes. In order to reach its main goal, our organization aims to increase its staff quality, to develop required technological infrastructure, to ensure that students of any grade are involved in sports, to offer better opportunities for disabled people to be involved in sports, to raise sports awareness so that being active could become a habit, to strengthen the structure of sports clubs, to identify individuals who are talented in sports and to properly motivate them, to increase the opportunities provided to successful athletes. In the field of Credits and Dormitories, for helping students of higher education, the Organization ensures the construction and management of dormitories, offers food services, contributes to the development of youth through social, cultural and sports activities, and also awards credits or scholarships to higher education students. It organizes social, cultural and sports activities, competitions and tournaments for the best use of dormitory students' leisure time, for their physical, mental and cultural development, and for fostering friendship and solidarity among them. Preventive mental health services are also offered to the students by the psycho-social unit of Canakkale Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports.