Quality Sport
Safe Sport
Sport For Life
When Sport for Life refers to safe sport, we mean the design, development, delivery, evaluation and knowledge mobilization of quality sport and physical literacy experiences that consider and strive to ensure each participant feels physically, psychologically, emotionally and culturally safe.
Recommended Sport Newsletters
Lethbridge Sport Council
We would like to share with you a list of e-newsletters that come to our inbox, to help your sport organizations, staff, and volunteers receive sport information and resources relevant to community sport. You can have access to sports news and information as it happens. Stay connected to sport virtually by signing up for e-newsletters to get your daily/weekly/monthly dose.
Active Living Alliance Disability Tip Sheets
Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability
Tip Sheets Provide Information about Disabilities and Conditions to Help Leaders in the Physical Activity, Recreation and Sport Sectors Be Inclusive
Parents in Sport Toolkit
Active for Life
Here you’ll find a variety of articles and resources to help parents, coaches, and sport organizations to understand and promote positive sport parenting in any environment.
Safe Return to Community Sport
True Sport
Use this guide to help navigate your child’s return to sport amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Keep in mind that certified coaches, the rule of two, background checks and safe sport practices are foundational to a good sport experience. Ensure your club or association is sanctioned and is compliant with their provincial and national governing bodies.
Online NCCP modules in Alberta
Alberta Sport
Whether you’re new to coaching or a seasoned veteran, the National Coaching Certification Program offers opportunities to enhance coaching journey.
AthletesCAN
AthletesCAN
The organization has created resources to build and formalize athlete feedback mechanisms across the sport system. As a result of strengthening strategic partnerships both within and outside of the system, AthletesCAN has continued to pioneer innovative ways to ensure inclusive decision-making by informing, educating, and advocating for an athlete-centered sport system.
Build Your Coaching Pathway
Coaching Association of Canada
The CAC offers many pathways to becoming a successful coach in Canada. Choose the one that leads you to your goals.
QUALITY SPORT CHECKLIST: ASK YOUR SCHOOLS & COACHES
Sport for Life and Active for Life
The Quality Sport Checklist provides parents with questions to ask teachers, coaches and caregivers to determine whether their programs provide the tools for kids to develop physical literacy.
Sport Safety for Parents
Coaching Association of Canada
Creating a culture where everyone can thrive is a shared responsibility. The Safe Sport Training eLearning module developed by the CAC will help anyone involved in sport identify and prevent situations of maltreatment.
Sport Safety for Coaches
Coaching Association of Canada
As of April 1, 2020, all Sport Canada-funded organizations are mandated to have training in safe sport available to everyone under their immediate authority.
Sport Safety for Sport Organizations
Coaching Association of Canada
The Safe Sport Training eLearning module from the CAC is available at no cost to your members and meets the minimum standards for mandated safe sport training for Sport Canada-funded organizations. It comes with additional tools and resources to help you embed Safe Sport principles throughout your organization.
Quality Sport for Communities and Clubs
Sport For Life
A guide to Quality Sport delivery based on Long-Term Development, and to identify how community sport organizations can work with key partners, such as their National Sport Organization (NSO), Provincial/Territorial Sport Organization (PTSO) and municipal recreation departments, to improve and sustain Quality Sport.
Canadian Sport Policy 2012-2022
Endorsed by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers responsible for sport, physical activity and recreation
The current Canadian Sport Policy, effective from 2012 to 2022, sets a direction for all governments, institutions and organizations to make sure sport has a positive impact on the lives of Canadians, our communities and our country.
Long Term Development in Sport and Physical Activity - 3.0
Sport for Life
This resource provides a framework for the development of every child, youth, and adult to enable optimal participation in sport and physical activity. The objective of the framework is to promote both sporting excellence at the highest international level and life-long engagement in health-enhancing physical activity. This third edition brings a number of important updates and enhancements.
What Sport Can Do True Sport Report
True Sport
This report is intended to enable communities, policy makers, and business leaders to see the tremendous potential that lies within our community sport system and to catalyze new approaches that will put this potential to work for Canadians.
Alberta Sport Action Plan 2019-2029
Active Alberta Policy 2011-2021
Government of Alberta
Active Alberta will inspire Albertans to become more active every day, through sustainable, province-wide activities that generate awareness and motivate action through collaboration.