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Breaking Ice: Connecting Indigenous Culture and Sport Through Blind Hockey 

In partnership with Canadian Blind Hockey  June is National Indigenous History Month, a time to reflect on the strength, resilience, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. It’s also a time to acknowledge the gaps that still exist, particularly in areas like sport, where Indigenous youth, especially those with disabilities, continue to face…

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Children and Youth
Health & Lifestyle
Health and Lifestyle
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Mothers
Physical Health

Why youth sport isn’t just for kids: it benefits mom too!
January 24, 2022
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Jordan Sutcliffe, University of Wollongong
Highlights Sport mom (noun, ???? spohrt mahm) Parents with a child or teen involved in sport know that along with the daily responsibilities of parenting, youth sport demands time, money and a degree of emotional restraint (Hayward et al., 2017)....
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Children and Youth
Long-Term Development
Sport Participation

Is it time to rethink our long-term sport participation models?
January 19, 2022
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François Gallant and Mathieu Bélanger, Université de Sherbrooke and Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick
In Canada, Sport for Life’s long-term athlete development model (Balyi, Way, & Higgs, 2013), now known as Long-Term Development (LTD) in Sport and Physical Activity, has served as the guiding framework for national, provincial and territorial sport programming since 2005....
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Coaching
Program Design and Evaluation
Sport Participation

How 2 sports came together to enhance player development in the North
October 6, 2021
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Adam Steiner and Veronica Allan, SIRC
From February 23 to April 4, 2021, in Hay River, Northwest Territories, 7 minor hockey goalies traded in their hockey sticks for table tennis rackets. In an exciting collaboration between Table Tennis North, Table Tennis Canada, Hockey NWT, Hockey North, Hay River Minor...
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Abuse-Free Sport
Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Concussion

You-CAN: Peers help youth athletes with concussions through education and social support
September 27, 2021
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Nick Reed, Christina Ippolito, and Kylie Mallory, University of Toronto
Highlights The number of concussions reported among Canadian youth has increased annually by 10.3% between 2004 and 2015.  Many concussions go unreported by youth due to their lack of knowledge, thinking it won’t make a difference, believing their friends will treat them differently and a lack of self-efficacy.  Improved concussion reporting and health outcomes may happen by understanding that social networks strongly influenced youth,...
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Children and Youth
Fair Play
Life Skills
Long-Term Development
Physical Health
Physical Literacy
Quality Sport
Sport Participation

The True Sport Experience: Bringing physical and ethical literacy to life in and out of the classroom
August 25, 2021
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the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
Physical and health education teachers and coaches are experts at helping kids learn new skills. By patiently walking students through each learning step, they build the blocks of learners’ physical literacy. However, sport and recreation experiences aren’t built on physical...
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Accessibility
Adapted Sport
Children and Youth
Disability
Quality Sport
Sport for Social Development
Sport Participation

Creating quality sports programs for kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities
June 28, 2021
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Canadian Disability Participation Project
Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) can benefit physically and psychosocially when they take part in sport (Baran et al., 2009, 2013; Weiss & Bebko, 2008). Unfortunately, their needs are often neglected, which leads to various physical, social, communication...
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Children and Youth
Data and Analytics
Knowledge Mobilization
Program Design and Evaluation

Movement-based approaches to program evaluation with children
May 25, 2021
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Ashley Romano and Corliss Bean, Brock University
This blog is part of a series in collaboration with Brock University. Written by a student in the ‘Program Evaluation in Professional Practice’ course, this blog draws on a student’s first-hand experience conducting a program evaluation during a placement with...
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Children and Youth
Governance
Newcomers to Canada
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Soccer and Christianity in greater Vancouver: Bodies, relations, and formations in Canadian settler-colonialism
May 10, 2021
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Nicholas Howe Bukowski
Introduction and context The focus of the research is the relationship between sport and Christianity (evangelical and Pentecostal) in Greater Vancouver. In a world of increasingly individualism, and disintegrating mass institutions (mass political parties, civil services organisations, mainline Protestant churches)...
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Children and Youth
Reconciliation
SCRI Conference
Sport for Social Development
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Cultural relevancy and positive youth development: Exploring the sport and physical activity experiences of indigenous youth in Canada
April 19, 2021
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Leisha Strachan
Project summary The purpose of the study was to gain insight into how positive youth development (PYD) through sport and physical activity is understood for Indigenous youth in western, central, and eastern urban communities in Canada. The following research questions...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Coaching
Talent Identification

For or Against? The Pros and Cons of Early Talent Identification in Sport
April 13, 2021
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Aaron Koenigsberg, Jesse Korf, and Lou Farah, York University
Early Talent Identification (TID) describes the process of identifying, evaluating and selecting athletes for sport programs in early adolescence (ages 10-14). This practice has created a contentious issue in sport. On one hand, early selection may eliminate late bloomers from...
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