Esmonde Katelyn, Pollack Porter Keshia M, Mahoney Patricia, Prochnow Tyler, Bridges Hamilton Christina N, Umstattd Meyer M Renee
Phoebe R. Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Deering Hall, 1809 Ashland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Prev Med Rep. 2022 Jul 5;28:101894. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101894. eCollection 2022 Aug.
Communities around the world lack safe places for children to play and be physically active. One solution to this issue is Play Streets, which involves the temporary closure of streets for several hours to create a safe space for active play and physical activity. While the benefits of these programs are greater when they are recurring over many years, there is a dearth of literature regarding how to successfully sustain Play Streets. To understand how Play Streets can be sustained in the long term, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 Play Streets organizers representing 22 Play Streets programs across the United States. Four recurring sustainability challenges were highlighted from the thematic analysis: 1) securing and sustaining funding, 2) managing community and city resistance to street closures, 3) navigating government bureaucracy, and 4) retaining interest amongst organizers and volunteers. With each challenge, we describe how Play Streets organizers navigated those challenges, with a goal of generating recommendations for those wishing to sustain Play Streets programs in the long term.
世界各地的社区都缺乏让孩子们玩耍和进行体育活动的安全场所。解决这个问题的一个办法是“游戏街道”，即临时封闭街道几个小时，以创造一个进行积极玩耍和体育活动的安全空间。虽然这些项目如果多年持续开展，其益处会更大，但关于如何成功维持“游戏街道”项目，相关文献却很匮乏。为了了解如何长期维持“游戏街道”项目，我们对代表美国22个“游戏街道”项目的24位项目组织者进行了半结构化访谈。主题分析突出了四个反复出现的可持续性挑战：1）确保并维持资金；2）应对社区和城市对街道封闭的抵制；3）应对政府官僚作风；4）保持组织者和志愿者的兴趣。针对每个挑战，我们描述了“游戏街道”组织者应对这些挑战的方式，目的是为那些希望长期维持“游戏街道”项目的人提出建议。
