- CAAWS PROGRAMS AT A GLANCE
- CELEBRATING CAAWS' 30TH ANNIVERSARY - PROFILING WOMEN
IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
- NEW RESOURCE: ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS AND
YOUNG WOMEN – POLICY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- CAAWS WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBER
- FRENCH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY COUNSELLING TOOLKIT NOW AVAILABLE
- UPCOMING CAAWS WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
- CELEBRATIONS
- SEASON’S GREETINGS
1. CAAWS PROGRAMS AT A GLANCE
 Newcomer
On the Move Program Leader Meeting - For two days
in December, Newcomer On the Move Program Leaders and Coordinators
from Brampton, Hamilton and Ottawa, and representatives from
the new community program hosts in Halifax and Winnipeg came
together in Toronto ON. This meeting provided a great opportunity
for Program Leaders from communities across the country to
connect and share program challenges, solutions and key learnings.
Also included in the two day agenda was a Fundamental Movement
Skills workshop facilitated by Coaches Association of Ontario,
and a screening of the documentary It’s a Girl’s
World which was followed by a discussion on social bullying.
Thank you to those who participated!
For more information on the documentary, It’s a
Girl’s World, visit: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=51404
Women 55-70+ Ontario Pilot Projects: New Ideas for
Increasing Physical Activity and Sport - A number
of pilot projects are taking place across Ontario aimed at
increasing physical activity and sport participation for women
55-70+. These test sites are trying out new marketing ideas,
adaptations and activities based on what the women told them
they wanted to do. For more information on over 35 pilot projects,
either recently completed or currently underway, visit: http://www.caaws.ca/women55plus/pilot_projects/index.cfm.
Special thanks to the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion
and Sport Healthy Communities and Sport for More Fund, and
to the Ontario Trillium Foundation (an agency of the Government
of Ontario).
Lunch and Learn - CAAWS welcomed more than
35 participants at its Lunch and Learn event hosted in Ottawa
ON on December 1, 2011, as part of its Women and Leadership
Program. Shelley Callaghan, Project Manager for CAAWS’
Physical Activity and Sport for Women 55-70+ project, shared
the main challenges and solutions to participation for this
age group, lessons learned through community-based pilot projects,
and practical resources for sport and physical activity organizations.
Those in attendance enjoyed the presentation and left with
the tools and inspiration to take action on developing, enhancing
or adapting services and programs for women 55-70+.
2. CELEBRATING CAAWS’ 30TH ANNIVERSARY
- PROFILING MILESTONES IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
2011 marks CAAWS’ 30th anniversary. To celebrate, we
are showcasing key milestones, and the women behind them,
that have contributed to CAAWS’ vision of an equitable
sport and physical activity system. In this final month, we
are taking a closer look at our organization, the Canadian
Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical
Activity (CAAWS).
Before CAAWS came into existence, Canada’s sport system
did very little to promote and support girls and women. There
were low levels of participation, inequitable distribution
of practice times, few women in leadership positions as volunteers
or administrators, virtually no women in coaching, and it
was rare to see a story about women athletes in the sports
section of the local newspaper.
To read more, visit: http://www.caaws.ca/e/milestones/30_years/caaws.cfm.
3. NEW RESOURCE: ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL
PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN – POLICY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 The
after school time period, from 3:00pm – 6:00pm, is a
key opportunity to encourage healthy choices amongst children
and youth. Earlier this year, CAAWS hosted consultations with
program providers and decision-makers to identify persisting
and emerging barriers to girls’ and young women’s
participation, and discuss essential components of quality
programs. Based on the consultations, the document describes
a vision and strategic directions for active after school
programs for girls and young women. The policy was developed
for community, provincial/territorial and national level organizations
to use when considering the design and delivery of active
after school programming.
The consultations and subsequent policy document is part
of CAAWS’ involvement in the Canadian Active After School
Partnership (CAASP), funded by the Public Health Agency of
Canada.
For more information, visit: http://www.caaws.ca/onthemove/e/resources/index.htm
4. CAAWS WELCOMES NEW BOARD MEMBER
CAAWS
welcomes to its Board Cynthia Menzies-Sabiston
(Winnipeg and Spence Lake MB). Other members of the CAAWS
Board of Directors include Dru Marshall,
Calgary AB; Emilea Saadeh, Edmonton AB; Guylaine
Demers, Quebec City QC; Jasmine Northcott,
Ottawa ON; Jennifer Fenton, Vancouver BC;
Moira Lassen, Ottawa ON; Nicole Smith,
New Maryland NB; Nancy Lee, Toronton ON;
and CAAWS Executive Director, Karin Lofstrom,
Ottawa ON.
5. FRENCH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY COUNSELLING
TOOLKIT NOW AVAILABLE
 The
Alberta Centre for Active Living (ACAL) is pleased to announce
the release of the French and Punjabi versions of its Physical
Activity Counselling Toolkit. This practical toolkit offers
ten plan language resources for practitioners to use when
working with their clients.
The resources have been designed to help facilitate the physical
activity counselling process. Practitioners can use these
resources as handouts and refer to them online: Deciding to
be physically active; Making a physical activity plan; Setting
goals; What stops you from being physically active?; Benefits
of physical activity; Physical activity and your blood pressure;
High blood pressure: how to stay safe; Physical activity and
type 2 diabetes; Diabetes: how to stay safe when active, and;
Healthy weight and physical activity.
Each resource has been reviewed and endorsed by the Alberta
Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. To learn more about
the project or to use the toolkit, visit: http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/our-work/toolkit/index.html
6. UPCOMING CAAWS WORKSHOPS AND
EVENTS
CAAWS will be hosting a number of workshops and presentations
in the New Year, including an On the Move
workshop taking place in Ottawa ON on January 30, 2012.
For more information and details, visit CAAWS' Calendar
of Events at http://www.caaws.ca/e/calendar/.
7. CELEBRATIONS
Canadian International Umpire Wendy Stewart
(Calgary AB) has been promoted to the FIH Umpiring World Panel;
Wendy is currently the only Canadian umpire in this elite
group of ten women.
Congratulations to the following Canadian female athletes
named to the Toronto 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games Athlete
Advisory Council: Chair and paralympic swimmer Carla
Qualtrough (Vancouver BC), paralympic swimmer Marie
Dannhaeuser (Ottawa ON), rhythmic gymnast Alexandra
Orlando (Toronto ON), rower Jane Thornton
(London ON), wheelchair rugby player Erika Schmutz
(Toronto ON), and high jumper Nicole Forrester
(Newmarket ON).
Cross Country Canada has named two of Canada’s best-ever
female cross-country skiers, Beckie Scott
(Vermilion AB) and Milaine Thériault
(Canmore AB), as chairs of its Women’s Committee. Canadian
rower Andréanne Morin (Montreal QC)
has been appointed to World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA)
Athlete Committee. Congratulations to Chantal Petitclerc
(Montreal QC) who has accepted a coaching position with UK
Athletics for the upcoming 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
In the Loop celebrates women’s accomplishments in the
sport and physical activity community. Send career notices,
changes, awards and recognitions to CAAWS c/o sparker@caaws.ca
to be included in the next issue.
8. SEASON’S GREETINGS
 The
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport
and Physical Activity would like to wish you and yours a safe
and happy holiday season, and best wishes for 2012!
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