Service Providers
Thank you for your interest in our Physical Activity Campaign “Have a ball together!” . This campaign aims to increase physical activity in 2-5 years olds. The Best Start Resource Centre is pleased to share comprehensive, evidence-based information and resources with Ontario service providers who work with parents and/or young children.
Ontario service providers can support this provincial campaign by planning local initiatives. Find out more about the campaign and how you can become involved. Do you:
- Organize community events/activities reaching out parents, caregivers and preschoolers?
- Work in the field of early years?
- Plan or manage physical activity events for children aged 2-5 years in Ontario?
- Have an interest in increasing physical activity in your community?
If yes, please read on! We have resources to support you and your activities.
Local Campaign material and resources available
Best Start will send a package of resources by the end of August to selected organizations working with families and young children.
Ontario Early Years Centres
Public health units
Community Action Programs for Children and Canada Prenatal Nutrition Programs (CAPC/CPNP) **
Aboriginal Head Start (AHS) **
** Thanks to funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, Ontario Region
The campaign resources are also available for ordering until mid-November. (Click here to download the form)
Note that the campaign material is available in English, in French and the Aboriginal version is in development.
Ideas for Local Initiatives
Best Start Resource Centre has planned provincial media strategies. You can support these strategies through local initiatives.
- Consider providing local radio, print media and TV with media ready articles or local interest stories.
- Plan a local launch event to support the provincial campaign launch event.
- Consider providing local parents and service providers with information and/or training events on physical activity.
- You may want to send information to a wider variety of community care providers, such as social and recreational community organizations, early years community organizations, after-school programs, sport retailers, etc.
Health Care Providers
Health care providers have an important role in promoting physical activity in the early years. Consider putting up the campaign poster in the waiting room, and giving parents a copy of the campaign brochure. Encourage parents to spend time being active with their children each day, and to reduce the amount of time their children spend watching TV and playing computer games.
For more information click here.
Have a ball together! Raising Healthy Kids is Child’s Play
October 2009
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