LGBTQI2S

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This resource, developed by viaSport, is designed to establish an understanding of issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities and offers recommendations on how to create welcoming physical activity environments for people regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or gender expression. 

PlaySafe is a resource created to help recreation, sport and physical activity leaders learn more about safe participation and how it can help change the culture of sport and recreation for the better. PlaySafe has resources to demystify sport safety, empower participants, and make sport meaningful. 

Summers in BC are changing due to drought, high temperatures, and wildfires. While working outdoors is still a pleasure for many people, the heat and smoke can affect their health. Review the impacts of climate change in BC and the effects of heat and wildfire smoke on human health. 

This training course is offered by BCRPA.

Heat and poor air quality continue to be a concern for many in the province, especially with how it affects our bodies and the way we move outdoors in the summer. 

If you are a coach, a recreation leader or educator, download our Heat and Smoke Safety Guide to help you develop a safety response to extreme weather events, while also keeping participants active and healthy. 

Pathways to Belonging, offered by the BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA), is a training program designed for professionals at all stages of their Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility journey. The program includes six modules paired with optional facilitated practical sessions.

The Families Getting Active Engagement Report highlights voices, experiences, and wisdom shared from equity-deserving families across BC. Their recommendations provide a direction on how sport and recreation leaders and organizations can support them in their active living journey. 

People come from different places, backgrounds, beliefs, and have different forms of self-expression - and we all should have a home in sport. viaSport BC developed this guide to help organizations ensure that everyone is included and celebrated so that more people are able to participate in sport. 

This guidebook was a project of PHE Canada's SPIRIT, a youth-led pilot project with the goal of identifying and addressing barriers to physical activity participation for 2SLGBTQ+ students. In this guidebook, teachers, activity leaders and coaches will learn strategies on how to embed inclusion into physical activity and sport programming in schools and recreation centres. 

Project Love Run is a safe space for womxn to meet others, get their bodies moving, and discover the joy of running. Physical activity leaders can help people join one of the running groups or start their own chapter to help expand the network of safe and inclusive spaces for BIPOC womxn.

PHE Canada developed this short evaluation checklist for organizations, classrooms, and physical education classes to help activity leaders and educators develop strategies to create more inclusive and supportive spaces for gender-diverse students and athletes.

Developed by PHE Canada, this guidebook is designed to help educators and youth activity leaders support 2SLGBTQ+ students and create welcoming spaces for them in sport and physical activity spaces.

PHE Canada worked with professors, researchers and youth allies to develop and recommend strategies that will help educators and leaders to embed inclusive programming practices to support gender and sexually diverse learners.

The City of Vancouver created an introductory video on why using appropriate pronouns for transgender people is integral to creating an inclusive and safe environment for all.

This Snapshot created by the City for All Women Initiative was used to inform the work developed and implemented in their Equity and Inclusion Lens Handbook. It is one of 11 Diversity Snapshots.

This guide created by City for All Women Initiative and Partners, addresses inequities in resources, access and power which cost our communities and organizations socially and financially.

This interactive tool created by the City for All Women Initiative and City of Ottawa, is to help users address systemic barriers and inequities people face and create a positive, respectful services representative of the community. This handbook is for everyone.

Here are three ways to ensure your organizational behaviours are helping to build a stronger and inclusive sport system that creates a positive experience for all from viaSport.  

viaSport's All Youth Matter: Inclusion Training is a four-hour workshop where participants are provided with tools, techniques and best practices to create inclusive sport, recreation and physical activity experiences for youth from underserved populations.

This easy-to-follow checklist from viaSport will help an organization determine their level(s) of accessibility. It also provides concrete examples of how to make all aspects of programming and facilities more inclusive and accessible for everyone. It is organized around six pillars of accessibility.