Inclusive Sport & Recreations in the Community
Sports & Recreation in the Community
- Helps build active and healthy individuals throughout the entire community
- Helps bring people in the community together
- Allows for equal access to a diverse range of sports and recreation opportunities for all members of the community
References/Links
Community Sport Councils Ontario
Diverse Populations in Sports & Recreation
- Indigenous Communities
- According to the Truth and Reconciliation Report (2015), it identifies sport and recreation as ‘tools’ for Indigenous peoples to develop social skills and improve their health and wellbeing across communities
- As a community we need to recognize that mainstream sports (i.e., hockey, baseball, etc.,) do not reflect Indigenous people’s cultural priorities or needs
- Sport for Life has created a document titled Indigenous Long-Term Participant Development Pathway, where it goes over a pathway for Indigenous communities to participate and develop in the sport system while keeping in mind and accommodating their cultural
Indigenous Long–Term Participant Development Pathway • Sport for Life
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- Aboriginal Support Circle (ASC) is a Canadian organization that helps promotes sports, physical activity, and recreation for the Aboriginal community – brings together First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples
- Individuals with Disability/Accessibility Needs
- Accessibility for Ontarian with Disabilities Act (AODA), 2005 – Their objective is to enhance accessibility in Ontario for individuals with disabilities by establishing and implementing accessibility standards that address essential aspects of daily living, with the aim of achieving this goal by 2025
Pathways to Recreation: Learning about Ontario’s Accessibility Standard for the Design of Public Spaces (prontario.org) – Overview of AODA Standards, page 4
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- 5 ways to help special-needs children with their physical literacy skills:
- Enroll the child in a group program
- Create an active environment at home
- Get outside
- Have a positive attitude
- Celebrate the child’s milestones
- 5 ways to help special-needs children with their physical literacy skills:
Special-needs children: 5 ways to help their physical literacy flourish – Active For Life
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- Sport for Life holds workshops for individuals with disabilities, it is called Physical Literacy 501: Inclusive Physical Literacy Workshop – it helps participants to develop their adaptation and fundamental movement skills, which allows for different kinds of disability types to participate in activities
Inclusive Physical Literacy – Physical Literacy (wpengine.com)
- 2SLGBTQI+
- Sports and recreation for 2SLGBTQI+ helps support overall community development, socialization amongst individuals dealing with similar backgrounds, activism and celebration (Anderson and Knee, 2022, pg, 89)Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the … – Google Books
- Inclusion of LGBTQ+ communities in parks and recreation
- Public parks and recreation must be accessible and available to all people no matter their sexual orientation and/or gender identity – must have equal access to programs and facilities
- It is known that individuals who do identify as an LGBTQ+ person has faced discrimination throughout their life – parks and recreation agencies what to shut those discriminations down and offer inclusive and welcoming spaces for these individuals
- Ways of promoting Inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community members:
- Creating health and wellness programs that explicitly stat that they are for ALL members of the community – i.e., group exercise classes, family programs, etc.
- Creating facilities that are inclusive and welcoming in order to provide safety, reassurance, and comfort for this community
- Creating outreach programs, youth groups and mentoring services
- Adding improvements to different facilities – gender neutral washrooms, change rooms, and safe spaces
- Promoting gender-neutral interactions – training staff members to utilize appropriate wording/pronouns
- Sports and recreation for 2SLGBTQI+ helps support overall community development, socialization amongst individuals dealing with similar backgrounds, activism and celebration (Anderson and Knee, 2022, pg, 89)Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the … – Google Books
References/Links
lgbtq2s+ sports and recreation – Search Images (bing.com) – Photo
