This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum provides tools to for youth centre or program success. It includes information about trends and issues relevant to working...

Users of recreation services are increasingly seeking quality assurance. This is even more evident in children’s programming. HIGH FIVE® is the quality standard for children’s recreation and spor...

This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum provides Variety Village Inclusion Training, characteristics of inclusive organizations, an overview of relevant Ontario ...

Many information vehicles, from magazines to signage to websites, are often designed by 20-somethings, but mainly used by middle-aged people who have different needs, interests, skills and physical ab...

This presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2009 Education Forum session eplains how to explore your own passion potential and provides take away tools and activities that can help to igni...

Information is presented on how parks and recreation facilities can compete head-to-head with the for-profit fitness industry - for-profit clubs strategize, and how to choose the approaches that ...

This presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2009 Education Forum explores a new vision of healthy aging, recognizing the importance of social connection, physical activity and the need to ...

Creativity and culture build local economies. Across Ontario,municipalities are turning to municipal cultural planning (MCP) to support economic and community development. MCP is a tool for identifyin...

Formerly known as the leisure pool, the lifestyle pool responds to a wide variety of programming needs and can offer operators and municipalities long-term financial return on their investment in an a...

This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum explains how to “hook” the interest of your audience, get to the point, use humour, handle disagreements and, most importan...

This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum provides practical, hands-on tools, techniques and approaches to assess and address Moose on the Table issues that block a ...

It’s a reality that concessions and vending machines can make lots of money – especially when they offer snack food and drinks filled with sugars and transfats. Through collaborative efforts among rec...

A panel of representatives from Accredited Organizations provides insight about what it means to be Accredited and how they went about doing so. It  also provides suggestions on how to get b...

A vast array of legislative requirements affect how recreation and parks volunteers and professionals operate facilities and deliver programs. Yet there is no comprehensive source of information a...

Politics speaks to both people and processes. The ‘people’ politics can revolve around  interaction with senior staff and elected officials.The ‘process’ politics can include how agendas are move...

P3s can be a great way to meet recreational infrastructure needs, but the approach must be well thought out. This presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2009 Education Forum explores the p...

Public-private partnerships (PPP) have been used successfully by many governments as a way of delivering much needed capital infrastructure projects. For the past three years, Infrastructure Ontario h...

From access and affordability policies, to child and youth engagement strategies, to positioning the value and benefits of parks and recreation – all these things affect the work of our staff and volu...

This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum discusses the principles of priority setting, priority setting models, barriers that leaders face, both individually a...

This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum highlights a variety of partnership approaches including a community program hub in the City of Oshawa and “In Motion,” a h...

This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education forum describes how The City of Waterloo has found a way to provide financially-accountable recreational opportunities for those ...

The Together for Healthy Kids initiative is a new public awareness campaign created by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario to respond to the obesity epidemic. The project will involve all level...

The City of Kitchener has comprehensive policies and programs to provide access for persons with disabilities. In this presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2009 Education Forum, policies...

From playgrounds to beaches and golf courses to marinas, weather is becoming an increasing concern for participant safety and risk management. This presentation, from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ont...

In this day of decentralization, downsizing and fiscal accountability recreation leaders need to understand how to build stronger communities by incorporating innovative and out-of-the-box programming...

These presentations from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2009 Education Forum, provides an update on the Ontario Trails Strategy and a trail builder's perspective.

Quickly profiling users with easy-to-understand techniques allows connection and communication at a level most facilities will be unable to match. This session from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ont...

Business Intelligence (BI) is the use of data to improve and develop program and facility planning. BI helps to forecast program and customer development (e.g. aging market) and isolate program “fill”...

Today’s older adult is not ready to sit on the sidelines while others play – they want to be “in the This presentation from the 2009 Parks and Recreation Ontario Education Forum provides latest statis...