Recreational Respite was asked to run the morning Youth Track portion of SCS’s (Service Coordination Support’s) virtual Coming Together conference. This year’s theme was My Voice, My Future, and we developed a unique Escape Room, customized to this theme. The morning portion of the conference was meant to be an engaging and interactive component, open […]
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April 2021 – December 2022 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
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We participated recently in the great and important conversation about social connection and the great loneliness epidemic. The impact of COVID19 and how it has caused further isolation and social disconnect amongst many people, including marginalized and vulnerable populations. Dr. Kiffer Card reviews the results from the Canadian Social Connection Survey as part of the
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March 2021- August 2021 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
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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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2016 – present 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
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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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Chantry Seniors Centre and Recreational Respite applied for a small community initiative grant in hopes to develop, implement new program offerings and train their junior seniors to sustain the programs, long term. During COVID19, the isolation of our seniors was very evident. The loneliness and social disconnect is detrimental to their health. The project aims to
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