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The objective of this paper was to present an original project titled “Sports 2014 – Multifactorial Environmental Model”, designed to reinforce positive behavior and create a sense of community among urban youth. It evolved together with the subsequent phases of an urban health promotion program that began in 1994 in Wrocław, Poland. However, the basis of this model was in creating a health promotion initiative that included elements of the Mandala model of health, an ecological model, and the ‘Your Neighborhood’s Coach’ health promotion and at-risk prevention program, begun in 2003 by the Sports Department of the City of Wrocław and continued to this day. This type of initiative was designed to include measures typical of a prevention program while also promoting an active lifestyle through constructive leisure activities. Its guiding philosophy was the ‘get involved’ rather than ‘dissuade from’ approach, which has found popularity in programs of a similar nature across the world. The presented “Multifactorial Environmental Model” is addressed to active counselors, coaches, psychologists, health promotion figureheads, and policymakers whose goal is to reduce negative and anti-social behavior in today’s youth. It should also find value among the pedagogical community of physical education institutions, as the presented work may serve as a source of experience when deciding on any significant changes in the education of future physical education teachers, coaches, and recreation instructors working with adolescents.

In 1999 in Poland we witnessed a change in the concept of physical education (from biotechnological to pedagogic). The change like this obliges the teacher to perform various roles (health teacher, recreation teacher, sports teacher and mobile behaviours esthetics teacher). However, in practice, the reform of the education system was not preceded by previous alterations in the students' education--the education of future teachers. The aim of our research was to collect students' opinions with regard to the evaluation of the particular courses (subjects) which are realised in the course of studies taking into account their usefulness for the future role of a health teacher. The research was conducted in May 2005 and it comprised the students of The University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw who graduated from the first degree studies (100 women and 100 men - 81,6% of III year students). In order to gather the material we employed the technique of a survey questionnaire with the use of a tool composed by ourselves. It turned out that the examined students declared that the three year long studies equipped them, in the first place, with the necessary information and skills which are useful for their roles of sports teachers and recreation teachers. Their theoretic preparation for the role of health teachers was assessed as only satisfactory, whereas their practical preparation was assessed as unsatisfactory (insufficient). This proves that without introducing changes in the programme of education of the future teachers it will not be possible to make any real changes of aims and tasks of physical education assumptions in the Polish schools.

The aim of this research is, what students in secondary school think of alcohol consumption, and estimating the social extent of drinking among the surveyed youth. Therefore, I used the questionnaire consisting of 9 questions. Feedback was collected by means of a sectional research on 122 secondary school students in the 1st grade (68 girls, 54 boys). The results analysis revealed unequivocally that the problem of alcohol consumption among youth exists. 83 percent of respondents claimed that they have already tried alcohol, whereas 50 percent of them admitted to drinking on recurrent basis. This fact signifies the need to undertake preventive actions which would be held in schools since the early-schooling age. They should take into account the following aspects: the family norms and attitudes towards drinking, and the level of students and their relatives' alcohol addiction.

The main objective of which was: to determine the level of knowledge concerning the significance of physical activeness to human health represented by parents of pre-school age children. A method of a diagnostic survey was employed to gather data for the purposes of the present work. In the present paper, parents of children attending the kindergartens took part in the study. The technique used in this work was a questionnaire. The collected research material after having been analysed thoroughly allowed to come to conclusions of which the most important one is that physical activeness is for more parents of pre-school age children very important in life.