Girls

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. 

This webpage has various resources and professional development opportunities to increase coaches', leaders', and volunteers' knowledge on Indigenous perspectives of health and wellness, to support Indigenous students and sport and recreation participants in a culturally safe way. 

Sport England’s report reviews physical activity offerings for women in England, why women have low participation rates, and how to address those low rates. This report offers a template for doing a similar review in your community, as well as a guideline on how to reach women in your community and help them be active.

Building on Sport England’s report “Go Where Women Are”, this infographic guide has advice, tips and recommendations on how to make sport and physical activity much more accessible for women and girls, encouraging participation and retention.

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’s short infographic poster is a short checklist evaluation on if your class, physical activity or recreational space is inclusive for all girls of all ages and abilities or not. The goal is to create awareness and help educators and leaders foster supportive sport environments for girls and young women.

Sport participation rates for female students decline as they get older, starting as early as grade 4, which is why PHE Canada developed this resource to help educators, and recreation and activity leaders identify best practices when it comes to engaging girls and young women in sport.

viaSport's She Plays infographic provides leaders and groups a guide on how to create sport and physical activity experiences that take into consideration girls’ backgrounds, knowledge, and the barriers they may face when it comes to sport participation.

The project used participant-centred design, a strategy that puts athletes’ experiences and needs at the forefront to empower and encourage them to participate in sport. This project focused on girls’ participation aged 11 to 14. This resource highlights the impact of this approach and shows key strategies that sport groups can use to create change.

This resource addresses the experiences of women and girls, the barriers they face in sport and physical activity participation, and how sport leaders and educators can take down those barriers and engage with them effectively.

This resource is provided by Sport for Life. 

The #ElleBouge awareness campaign, developed by the Alberta Francophone Sport Federation (FSFA), aims to make women aware of physical activity and its benefits. #ElleBouge is a campaign that aims to encourage women to be more physically active. It is one of the first of its kind to be presented in Canada and both in French and English.

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.