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Welcome
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Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA)
CPRA exists to foster, lead and supportprofessionals, educators, students and volunteerswho build healthy communities and enhance the
qualityof life of Canadians through:
• Advocacy• Research• Leadership• Communication
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CPRA’s Everybody gets to play™ InitiativeGoal:
• To enhance the quality of life of low-income families and their children through increased access to recreation opportunities
Key activity areas:• Research and Evaluation• Communication and Information Exchange• Community Programming Tools and
Resources• Strategic Partnerships
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Successes 2000-2008
• 8 consecutive years of support from PHAC• Relationships and Partnerships • Research• National Position Paper and National Policy • Engaged members and P/T Partners• User-friendly tools and resources• Evaluation
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Everybody gets to play™ Tool Kit• Understand poverty and its effect on
families• Explain the benefits of recreation for low-
income families• Identify and enlist potential partners to:
• establish realistic goals;• assemble statistics about your community;• develop joint strategies to resolve access issues;• evaluate your programs and services;• create community awareness;• create programs with long-term sustainability;• evaluate results; and• share success stories and lessons with others.
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7 Steps to Community Mobilization
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Everybody gets to play™ – Workshops• Awareness & Understanding of the Everybody
gets to play™ Community Mobilization Tool Kit
• Awareness of barriers to recreation for low-income families
• Provide tools and techniques to take action
• Provide networking opportunities in an issue-based setting
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Everybody gets to play™– Dissemination
• Ambassadors• Building Capacity with Provincial
and Territorial Partners• Expand Target Groups• Supplemental Materials and
Webpage development
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What’s Next for Everybody gets to play™ …• P/T Partner Demonstration Sites (2008-09)
Selected seven P/T Parks and Recreation Associations to participate in a one-year demonstration site to develop and implement strategies to build and/or enhance organizational capacity to support member efforts in removing barriers to recreation for low-income families.
• Alberta Recreation and Parks Association (ARPA)• Association québécoise du loisir municipal (AQLM)• Northwest Territories Recreation and Parks Association
(NWTRPA) in partnership with Recreation and Parks of the Yukon (RPAY)
• Parks and Recreation Ontario (PRO)• Recreation Nova Scotia (RNS) in partnership with
Recreation New Brunswick (RNB) and Recreation P.E.I.• Recreation P.E.I. • Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association (SPRA)
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What’s Next for Everybody gets to play™ …Healthy Eating Resources• One day Consultation to provide insight
and suggestions on current healthy eating strategies and processes
• Develop resources that can assist practitioners to incorporate healthy eating strategies into their organizations.
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What’s Next for Everybody gets to play™ …Aboriginal Component• Host an ‘Aboriginal Lens Review’ to
provide feedback on the Tool Kit to test its relevancy for an aboriginal audience
• Develop and Test Supplement/Resources
• Train 4 Ambassadors to deliver workshops in Aboriginal Communities
• Deliver 4 Workshops in Aboriginal Communities
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What we have heard?
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How you can get involved?• Partner with your Recreation
Departments, Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCA’s etc.
• Facilitate access to recreation programming
• Rally the community around the issue• Promote the importance of recreation
and community opportunities • Host a workshop
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Questions?