This handout from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, includes 12 activities from the publication 50 Grrrreat Transition Games, intended for use as a bridge between different...
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Provides an understanding of Condition Auditing and the various types of audits that can be applied, explains how to apply a Facility Condition Index to rate the state of building infrastructure and c...
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This session, at the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, focusses on identifying existing and potential risk management areas, understanding the kinds of questions to ask to isol...
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The presentation discusses the importance and benefits of consistent branding, how to use cost-effective tools to generate revenue through brand recognition and how to increase your community profile ...
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This presentation discusses the correlation between the built environment and physical activity , how to incorporate design characteristics that encourage walking and cycling, and the land use mix fac...
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This presentation discusses the power of community voice and community collaboration, youth asset development strategies, and an easily applied model for community and youth development. Presentation ...
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The purpose of this presentation is to explain the funding priorities of the Ministry of Health Promotion, identify what makes a good CIAF project, how to create a budget, work plan and project evalua...
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This presentation, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, explains the concept of community policing, crime prevention approaches used by police, and ways to mobilize a com...
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This presentation focuses on strategies and guidelines on creating community with special events.
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This presentation focusses on creating excitement around increasing physical activity, working collaboratively with neighboring municipalities, and how to engage large numbers of people in physical ac...
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This presentation, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, discusses how to understand and define your target markets, develop strong, consistent key messages, and select th...
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This presentation, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, discusses the connection between employee experieinces and employee retention, how to identify key employees and t...
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This session provides new ideas and approaches to event theming, ideas on accessing resources, and an understanding of current and future trends in event planning. Presented at the Parks and Recreati...
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This session discusses the challenge of initiating a community development model within a municipal bureaucratic structure, solutions to volunteer management issues when citizens are in positions of a...
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These handout, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, include a list of 40 ways to provide positive feedback to program participants and staff, an inspirational poem, and s...
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This keynote address from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, provides practical ways to develop leadership skills and raise the leadership potential of the people around you...
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This presentation, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, discusses managing community expectations, identifying the highest priority needs for the present and future, and ...
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This presentation discusses how to identify recommendations and initiatives regarding access that are applicable to a community, take steps to undertake a local access strategy, and how to find out a...
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This presentation, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, discusses forming partnerships to enable recreation programs to be more accessible, training staff to make inclusi...
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This presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum discusses women 55- 70 as a unique client group, the barriers related to physical activity for this group, and recom...
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This presentation encourages the participation of overweight and obese youth in physical activity, explains how to use language and develop attitudes in activity instruction that support increased par...
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This presentation explains the benefits of using an environmentally sustainable approach in building design, how the LEED point system healps earn green credits, and how to save in the long-term throu...
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This presentation articulates the importance and benefits of active transportation as a means for getting people more active, and explains how to advocate with community planners and decision-makers t...
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Describes an award winning program which has reduced inappropriate activities in parks, and stresses the importance of communication with the public about the system and how to increase use of the par...
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This presentation provides some facts and statistics about obesity in children, the factors that influence that and ways to make healthy choices the easy choices. Presented at the Parks and Recreatio...
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The presentation focuses on improving activities for communities with diverse ethnic groups. It provides a list of recreation centres that are priority centres, offering free programs to the communit...
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This presentation discusses leading edge research and practices aimed at improving physical activity levels in children and youth, how to identify collaborative approaches to community action and how ...
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This presentation provides an understanding of the needs and interests of unpaid staff, identifies steps to increase and enhance the volunteer experience, and describes what a community would be like ...
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Discusses the accelerating issues around the infrastructure challenge in Ontario, how to address the capital requirements through a practical approach, and how others are addressing capital fund...
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Discusses the current state of the art of strategic planning in Ontario municipalities, identifies the factors leading to success or failure, and articulates the recommendations that can be made to im...
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Discusses the enormity of the impact that the aging population will have on parks, recreation, and community services; identifies specific issues, trends and best practices relating to older adult ser...
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This presentation, from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2008 Annual Education Forum, discusses tracking trends and planning tools, how to isolate emerging trends in recreation facility/service planni...
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This presentation discusses the key components of succession planning and diversity management, how to engage the right people in the process, and resources to support and guide the process.
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