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Social Legacies

Social Legacies Hosting sport events can bring many positive benefits to the community. Traditionally, many of the benefits that motivate event hosts, governments and sponsors have focused predominantly on creating economic or sport impacts. More recently, mega, major and signature sport event organizers are being asked to help communities address long-standing social issues and to…

Quality Sport for Communities and Clubs

Quality Sport for Communities and Clubs In this resource, our purpose is to provide a guide to Quality Sport delivery based on Long-Term Development, and to identify how community sport organizations can work with key partners, such as their National Sport Organization (NSO), Provincial/Territorial Sport Organization (PTSO) and municipal recreation departments, to improve and sustain…

Quality Sport Checklist for Communities and Clubs

Quality Sport Checklist for Communities and Clubs Quality Sport Checklist for Communities and Clubs At its essence, quality sport and physical activity is achieved when the right people do the right things at the right times, which leads to positive experiences for participants. The following checklist is composed of a number of elements that lead to quality…

Becoming a CS4L Community

Becoming a CS4L community Building an Activation Plan that works for your community How should you advanced CS4L in your community? What does the understanding of and the implementation of CS4L look like? The answer to these question is likely not the same as in the community down the road. This document will allow you…

Richmond Sport for Life Strategy

Richmond Sport for Life Strategy The Richmond Sport for Life Strategy is one of four inter-related strategies that serve to achieve a Council-endorsed initiative: the Richmond Community of Excellence for Sport and Wellness initiative. This partnership-based initiative aims to position Richmond as the best place for residents to play and to achieve their highest potential,…

Winnipeg Community Sport Policy

Winnipeg Community Sport Policy January, 2012 - “To achieve positive change among Manitoba’s population, communities, organizations and governments need to pool their commitment, leadership and resources. Sports, recreation, education, fitness and other organizations need to work together to identify and remove or minimize the barriers to participation.” Manitoba Physical Activity Action Plan (2001) Download here

The Vancouver Sport Strategy

The Vancouver Sport Strategy May, 2008 - From our ocean playground to Olympic venues, the Vancouver Sport Strategy (VSS) reflects our city and its citizens - dynamic, progressive and forward - looking. It provides a roadmap for the way ahead in sport for all Vancouver residents and charts a course for a new approach to sport…

Abbotsford BC: Successful Alignment with Canadian Sport for Life and Physical Literacy in a Recreation Environment

Abbotsford BC: Successful Alignment with Canadian Sport for Life and Physical Literacy in a Recreation Environment Highlighting the partnership between the City of Abbostford Parks Recreation Culture and PacificSport Fraser Valley. Download here

The Role of Monitoring Growth in LTAD

The Role of Monitoring Growth in LTAD This document is intended as a resource to help NSOs to determine the next steps in the implementation of the long-term development of the participant / athlete. The guides throughout the four main stages in the implementation of the Long Term Development participant / athlete by determining the…

Quality Sport Checklist: Ask your Schools & Coaches

Quality Sport Checklist: Ask your Schools & Coaches The Quality Sport Checklist provides parents with questions to ask teachers, coaches and caregivers to determine whether their programs provide the tools for kids to develop physical literacy. Download here

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