Amy Macfarlane

The City of Waterloo and Recreational Respite connected in April 2021 after sharing recent details about a seniors programming project in rural Ontario, that promoted new and existing recreational opportunities for seniors (both in-person and virtual options) and in response to the isolation for so many, during COVID19. The goal of this collaboration includes reducing isolation, …

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In early 2020/2021, The Jays Care Foundation and Recreational Respite launched a respite support opportunity to provide in home support for Challenger Baseball families! The goal was to provide families with respite (either in home or virtual programming), help athletes continue to progress through the development of life skills, social skills and movement skills. The …

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Champions for Life and Recreational Respite have worked together in a unique way. Champions for Life focuses on teaching kids to move for life! Children in the early years of development acquire the fundamental movement skills so that they have the tools to play and be active throughout their lives. The team at CFL develop …

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We have partnered with a number of Alzheimer Societies across the country, to provide a number of collaborative programs. Much of the focus has been on caregiver and individual wellness and we have used a great deal of art and literary based projects. A series of art program sessions we explored various medium and art …

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The Town of Saugeen Shores and Recreational Respite partnered in a unique experience to offer a series of Chloes Friend Den programs to this rural community of Ontario. The Chloes Friend Den series was developed to assist youth in identifying and the prevention of bullying, through play. The goal of each program is to learn …

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Children’s Treatment Network and Recreational Respite have been network partners since 2016. At that time we started to develop youth programs for ages 5+ and hosted them in a series of the CTN’s locations across two major regions of the greater Toronto area. These programs were the early beginnings of our now Recreation and Build …

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A unique partnership between the Georgian Triangle Humane Society (GTHS) and Recreational Respite! This program was part of a three-year grow grant funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Our role was to help develop the tools for assessment, track the progress and design a final report to submit for further grant opportunities to continue to do …

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The team at Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary (AAFS) and Recreational Respite partnered together to initially offer our ‘social media and healthy habits’ virtual group program series, in the early stages of the pandemic. The relationship evolved over the course of the year and we ended up developing additional programs to their virtual calendar …

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