GOALS and Recreational Respite have partnered to offer a variety of virtual programs for young adults with disabilities. They explored both our Recreation calendar and our Build It Workshops with programs like: 1) Mixed Media 2) Olympic Sports 3) Muscles and Me: Basketball 4) Virtual Escape Room 5) Pop Culture 6) Travel Adventure 7) Drumming […]
Always Connected Treatment Network and Recreational Respite have partnered to offer therapeutic recreation in a community setting for children, youth and adults with disabilities: Social Club (18+), Kids Club (6-11 years of age) and a Teen Club (15-17 years old). Each group program will create a safe space for participants to come together to make
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Visions of Independence (VOI) and Recreational Respite has been working together throughout COVID19, to provide their members a number of recreation and Build It Workshops. A strong focus on our Build It Workshops have brought some incredible programs to their members that we have developed and implemented. Some of their favourite partnership programs include: Global Citizen
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ParaSport Ontario participated in the million minutes activity challenge and asked Recreational Respite to help! We developed and filmed five unique programs that could be shared in the challenge: 1) DROM (drumming and meditation) 2) Muscles and Me (adaptive sports) 3) Boxing 4) Rhythmic Round Circle/Dance 5) Travel Adventures They can be found, shared and
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July and August 2021 Cerebral Palsy PEI and Recreational Respite offered a full range of virtual group programs to their PEI CP members! Members enjoyed a variety of recreation and Build It Workshops through the summer of 2021. They were able to create a space that members could come together in a very isolated time,
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Autism BC partnered with Recreational Respite throughout 2020 and 2021 and here is what they have to say about our partnership: “Autism BC shared promotional codes to allow our over 7000 members across BC to try out the online support group programs offered by Recreational Respite and the team. Over 95% of our members would
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Thanks to the Tamarack Institute for including us as moderator of this great conversation with Steven Estey and Sarah Schulman! Some really great things happening around the country for and with people with disabilities! ‘How People with Disabilities are Shaping Community’ Have a watch 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=layoBvaALyE
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Watch a critical discussion around the importance of human connection for individuals living on the Autism Spectrum. Our engaging & experienced panel discusses why face to face interaction is key, what we have heard about this subject from the autism community, how the global pandemic has affected our contact with others and ways to engage
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Almost immediately after COVID-19 hit Canada in March 2020, Amy MacFarlane, Founder and CEO of Recreational Respite, realized she had a major problem. “All of our services shut down,” she says, remembering the chaos of those initial weeks. “Before the pandemic, we offered in-person one-on-one services and group programs in the community. We didn’t have
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Recreational Respite partnered with Service Coordination Support (SCS) to offer the first virtual Youth Track Sessions during their Coming Together Conference 2020 (25th Anniversary). Recreational Respite developed and facilitated 4 programs to engage youth age 14+. Build It Mental Health (Self Care) – November 7, 2020 The workshops increased self-esteem, reduce anxious feelings, and manage stress well. Participants
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