Active for Life: Sport toolkit
As a sports organization or community club, you have an important interest in communicating cutting-edge information to coaches and getting parents to learn about their child’s sport.
Below you will find a variety of articles and tools that you can use to engage your coaches and parents. Pick and choose from this list, and feel free to share this content through your social media channels, website, and newsletters.
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You are welcome to reprint any of the more than 1,000 Active for Life articles. We just ask that you follow our reuse guidelines.
Articles
Here are some favourites for sharing with parents:
- Tips for parents with kids in sport
- 5 ways to support your child in sport
- Why teaching kids how to move has become essential
- Talent development vs. talent education: Give kids a chance
- Relative age and developmental age: Is your child getting short-changed?
- Trainability: How far can training and practice take your child?
- Specialization: What does it really mean?
- What to do when a case of Parent Peer Pressure strikes
- Does your kid suck?
Here are some that will appeal to coaches
- 6 tips to help coaches teach parents about LTAD
- Celebrating parents who make sport possible for kids
Curated lists of articles
Want to take a deeper dive into a particular topic? Our curated pages are lists of the best articles on specific sports, special topics, and information of interest to different communities and groups.
Websites and Videos
These are some useful websites and videos that cover special themes in sport for coaches and parents:
Tools
We’ve got materials that can help you educate parents about physical literacy. They include bookmarks and postcards you can order, posters you can download and print, presentations you can use (and slides you can use in your own presentations), and fun things like a quiz and a fortune teller you can download.
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Help newcomers to Canada by sharing our resources and posters translated in 9 more languages.
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Sound bites and shareable graphics
You can use the memes on the following pages on your social media channels, web pages, newsletters, and anywhere else you think they’d work:
- Physical Literacy benefits kids
- Multi-sport activity benefits kids
- Keep kids in sport safe from abuse
- Parents in sport
Get social with Active for Life
Social media is a great way to build understanding in parents and to inspire them to add more movement into each day, for their kids and themselves.
Follow Active for Life on social media and enrich your social media channels by reposting and retweeting AfL content:
Using hashtags is a great way to connect your club members with the broader discussion. Consider using these:
- #physicalliteracy
- #activeforlife
- #sportsparents
- #qualitysport
- #LTAD
- #multisport
- #youthsports
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