Municipal Camp Recommendations https://playbrucegrey.com/download/camp-recommendation-a-public-health-handbook/

Physical Literacy Training https://playbrucegrey.com/education/ contact Sarah Milne s.milne@publichealthgreybruce.on.ca

Health and Physical Activity Curriculum supports https://playbrucegrey.com/education/

ParticipACTION - Check it out! Build Your Best Day  is a fun, interactive and educational tool to help children and youth aged 5-17 and their parents learn about the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines

Daily Physical Activity in Schools (DPA) - Strategies and resources for teachers to help Grade 1-8 students achieve their minimum 20 minutes of sustained moderate to vigorous physical activity each school day.

Recess Programs - An organized approach to recess and nutrition breaks, through the introduction of games and activities is a viable solution to reducing the sedentary behaviour of young children: Recess | Canadian Public Health Association - play_recess_e.pdf

• PROPS – Peers Running Organized Play Stations (PROPS), PROPS Handbook
• Recess Guardians: National program - Recess Guardians Certification Program (thinkific.com)
• PALS Playground Activity Leaders in Schools (PALS) is a program encourages children to participate in playground activities at recess regardless of their gender, size or ability. It also promotes both structured and unstructured play.
• The Recess Project, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
• New Recess Rules Policy, Horace Allen School, Coleman, Alberta
• Unstructured PLAY Unstructured Play | Canadian Public Health Association (cpha.ca)

Raise the Bar Intramural Program - Ophea’s Raise the Bar Intramural Program for students or educators to help plan and run quality, inclusive, and sustainable intramurals. The Intramural Program is free-of-charge and guides you through an easy-to-follow 4-step process, and the opportunity to be recognized as an Ophea Intramural Participant School.

• Canadian Intramural Recreation Association (CIRA) - Programs and intramural resources for teachers and school staff.

In order to make your school community healthier check out the following resources:

• About Walk to School Day : Walk & Bike to School
• The Walking School Bus – Canadian Cancer Society has created a variety of resources that can help to start a Walking School Bus. Many of these resources are in a format that can be edited so they can be adapted and personalize for schools.
• Ontario Active School Travel – includes a step by step guidance and tools to implement School Travel Planning 
• Programs - Green Communities Canada – programs and resources on creating green and active communities

Active Transportation

Canada’s National Active Transportation Strategy (pdf)The Active Transportation Strategy's is to build new and expanded active transportation networks and to create safe environments for more equitable, healthy, active and sustainable travel options to thrive.

The Active Transportation Fund supports Canada's National Active Transportation Strategy, which was launched on July 28, 2021. Canada's National Active Transportation Strategy is the country's first coast-to-coast-to-coast strategic approach for promoting active transportation and its benefits

Canada Walks - Green Communities Canada - WALK Friendly Ontario - Green Communities Canada

NATN_Sustainable_Calgary_2020_Nov_17_20MB.pdf (squarespace.com)

The Impact of Physical Activity on Mental Health Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Ontario 2022 - A report from Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table has found that reduced opportunities for physical activity greatly impacted the mental health of Canadians during the pandemic.

Healthy Public Policy brings health and equity considerations to all areas of policy, with the end goal of improving health outcomes for all. To do so, existing public policies must be analyzed and evaluated for their impact on health equity and population health. Both applied research and academic research are used to help to inform where improvements can be made. Then, new policy approaches can be introduced that address these health impact. Public Policy Models and Their Usefulness in Public Health: The Stages Model (ncchpp.ca)

• Building Healthy Public Policy – HSC PDHPE
• Healthy community design policy for official plans (simcoemuskokahealth.org)
• Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition 1992-2019 Legacy-Report-web.pdf
• Policy Development | Public Health Ontario
• Canadian Public Health Association Children’s Unstructured Play Positional Statement (2019), unstructured play provides a variety of benefits for children and youth health and well-being
• Canadian Fitness & Leisure Research Institute - Extensive research on the importance of a physically active lifestyle.
• Youth Moving Safely with Active Transportation - Hanover/Walkerton Active Transportation Committee
• Active and Alternative Transportation to Support Healthy Living in Grey Bruce PDF

• Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines and Canadian Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines Handbook
• 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth (formerly: the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines) Recommended guidelines for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children aged 5-17 years. Watch this interactive video to learn more!
  • Compendium of Physical Activities - a listing of activities along with an estimate of the intensity of each activity
  • Active for Life - Activities and lesson plans to help children develop physical literacy. For Grades K-7.
  • Build Your Best Day - Interactive online tool to help children plan a day with the suggested amount of Sweat, Step, Sleep and Sitting to be healthy. Download their additional resources for educators which include games, activity sheets and posters.
  • Have a Ball Together! - Activities and resources to teach physical activity and physical literacy in Grades K-1.
  • Ophea Teaching Tools - Curriculum-based lesson plans, programs and activities for Grades 1-8.
  • ParticipACTION’s Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth - An assessment of child and youth physical activity in Canada.
  • PAR-Q & You - A Questionnaire for People Aged 15 to 69  to help you decide if you need to check with your health care provider before beginning or increasing your exercise program 
  • Physical Activity Tips for Adults 18-64 years - Public Health Agency
  • Parks and Recreation Ontario (PRO)