Physical Activity Manitoba

Healthy Public Policy – Reducing Barriers to Physical Activity

Not all residents are provided with the same opportunities to participate in physical activity, recreation and sport. There are often barriers to their participation that may be financial, social, cultural or physical in nature. Healthy public policies can reduce or eliminate those barriers. Organizations can establish healthy policy approaches within their organizations and ensure that staff are aware of and act upon those approaches to support participants to participate in their services.

These resources provide information to help understand the barriers, how to develop enabling policies, and provides some examples of existing policies that various organizations have adopted to reflect their approach to minimize the barriers to participants and encourage participation by all.

This is not an exhaustive list of resources. If you are aware of further resources or examples to include on this listing, please contact us at pacm.mb@gmail.com

Policy Context Resources – provides information that will impact the development of policies by identifying type of barriers participants may face and supports or approaches that will help reduce or eliminate those barriers

General

The Accessibility for Manitobans Act

http://www.accessibilitymb.ca/index.html

Community Wellbeing: A Framework for the Design Professions https://www.conferenceboard.ca/(X(1)S(4egp5rawwhh0d1ajswmevprw))/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=9787&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

The Conference Board of Canada

Physical Activity for Decision Makers

https://www.centre4activeliving.ca/news/2018/06/physical-activity-for-decision-makers/

Centre for Active Living

Handbook to Healthier Communities – Influencing Healthy Public Policies

https://www.ocdpa.ca/publications/toolkit-healthier-communities-influencing-healthy-public-policies Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance

Policy and program considerations for increasing sport participation among members of underrepresented groups in Canada: A Literature Review

https://sirc.ca/app/uploads/2019/12/considerations_underrepresented_groups_final_report_.pdf

Interprovincial Sport and Recreation Council

ACTIVE: a toolkit for countries to increase physical activity and reduce noncommunicable diseases

https://www.who.int/ncds/prevention/physical-activity/active-toolkit/en/

World Health Organization

Rethinking the Canadian Sport Policy

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehpAI8RLzC8&t=34s

TVO

Winnipeg Community Sport Policy

http://sportforlife.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WPG-COMMUNITY-SPORT-POLICY-Jan-6-2012.pdf

The Winnipeg Community Sport Partners

A Common Vision for Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Living in Canada: Lets Get Moving https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/lets-get-moving.html

Government of Canada

Polar Bear Recess

https://greenactioncentre.ca/at-school/polar-bear-recess/

Green Action Centre

The Let Grow Project

https://letgrow.org/program/lgproject/

The Let Grow Project

Affordable Access

Everybody gets to play™ community mobilization tool kit

https://www.cpra.ca/toolkits

CPRA

Affordable Access to Recreation for Ontarians Policy Framework Every One Plays https://www.prontario.org/public/policy/RecAccessPolicyFinal.pdf

Parks and Recreation Ontario

Specific Populations

Indigenous

Everybody gets to play™ First Nations, Inuit And Métis Supplement

https://www.cpra.ca/toolkits

CPRA

Indigenous Physical Activity & Cultural Circle National Declaration Show Us Your Active Spirit

http://a-pacc.com/node/85

Indigenous Physical Activity & Cultural Circle

Indigenous Long–Term Participant Development Pathway

https://sportforlife.ca/portfolio-view/indigenous-long-term-participant-development-pathway/

Sport for Life

Indigenous Communities: Active for Life

https://sportforlife.ca/portfolio-view/indigenous-communities-active-for-life/

Sport for Life

Women & Girls

Supporting Inclusion of Newcomer Girls and Women

https://www.caaws.ca/programs/newcomer-girls-and-women/

Canadian Women & Sport (formerly CAAWS)

Actively Engaging Women and Girls

https://sportforlife.ca/portfolio-view/actively-engaging-women-girls/

Canadian Women & Sport (formerly CAAWS) and Sport for Life

Keeping Girls in Sport

https://jumpstart.canadiantire.ca/pages/keeping-girls-in-sport#:~:text=Keeping%20girls%20in%20the%20game,in%20sports%20and%20physical%20activity.

Jumpstart

Engaging Girls and Young Women

https://phecanada.ca/activate/gender-equity/girls-and-young-women

PHE Canada

Disability

Canadian Practices in Inclusive Recreation

https://ala.ca/canadian-practices-in-inclusive-recreation

Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability

Let's Play Toolkit

http://www.letsplaybc.ca/toolkit

Let's Play

No Accidental Champions: LTAD for Athletes with a Disability (2nd Edition)

https://sportforlife.ca/portfolio-view/no-accidental-champions-ltad-athletes-disability/

Sport for Life

Newcomers

Supporting Inclusion of Newcomer Girls and Women

https://www.caaws.ca/programs/newcomer-girls-and-women/

Canadian Women & Sport (formerly CAAWS)

Sport for Life for All Newcomers to Canada

https://sportforlife.ca/portfolio-view/sport-life-newcomers-canada/

Sport for Life

Engaging Newcomers to Canada in Physical Activity Programming: Research Report

https://participaction.cdn.prismic.io/participaction/5b3a97e7-1d6d-42f2-99e0-7c1dc61171fa_Engaging+Newcomers+in+Physical+Activity_Research+Report.pdf

ParticipACTION

Winnipeg Newcomers Sport Academy - Resources

Resources

Winnipeg Newcomers Sport Academy

Gender

LGBTQ Resources for Sport Organizations

https://www.viasport.ca/inclusion/lgbtqi2s

viaSport

Sex and Gender Diversity

https://cces.ca/sex-and-gender-diversity

Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport

Supporting Gender and Sexually Diverse Students

https://phecanada.ca/activate/gender-equity/gender-diverse

PHE Canada

Leading the Way: Working with LGBT Athletes and Coaches

https://womenandsport.ca/resources/publications/leading-the-way/

Canadian Women & Sport (formerly CAAWS)

Policy Development Resources - provides processes for developing policies

A Toolkit for Developing and Influencing Physical Activity Policy

https://parc.ophea.net/sites/parc-dev.ophea.net/files/pdfs/Resources/PARC_TlktAODA_31MR17.pdf

Physical Activity Resource Centre

Policy Readiness Tool

http://policyreadinesstool.com/en/

The Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease (APCCP)

National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy

http://www.ncchpp.ca/en/

National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

https://www.nccmt.ca/knowledge-repositories/search?entity=resource&locale=en&filters=168

Supporting the Policy-Making Process

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/supporting-policy-making.pdf?la=en

Public Health Ontario

Eight steps to developing healthy public policy

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/eight-steps-policy-development.pdf?la=en

Public Health Ontario

Policy Examples – provides example policies from a variety of sources that can be used as models or templates to assist in the development of your own policies

General policy examples

Golf Canada Equal Opportunity Policy

https://www.golfcanada.ca/app/uploads/2014/06/GC-Equal-Opportunity-Policy.pdf

Golf Canada

Sample Accessible Customer Service Policy http://www.accessibilitymb.ca/pdf/dio_sample_accessible_customer_service_policy.pdf

Province of Manitoba

Sample Accessibility Plans

http://www.accessibilitymb.ca/sample-accessibility-plan.html

Province of Manitoba

Affordable access policy examples

Fee Subsidy Program

https://winnipeg.ca/cms/recreation/leisure/feesubsidy.stm