Allison Reis

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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