Welcome

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

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

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

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.

7 Steps to Community Mobilization

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

Everybody gets to play™– Dissemination

• Ambassadors• Building Capacity with Provincial

and Territorial Partners• Expand Target Groups• Supplemental Materials and

Webpage development

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)

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.

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

What we have heard?

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

Questions?