CSCO February 2024 Update to Community Sport Network in Ontario

February 2024 Update to Community Sport Network in Ontario

CSCO is pleased to offer the following announcements, events, grants and resources courtesy of our committed partners in community sport; Sport For Life, Canadian Olympic Committee, Ontario Winter Games-Thunder Bay, Coaching Association of Ontario, Sport Oakville, Sport Aurora, ParticipACTION, Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, MLSE, ParaSport Ontario, Ottawa Sport Council and the Space Coalition.  

Announcements:

• CSCO Sport For Life Dialogue session occurred on Jan 18 with 11 groups in attendance. Thankyou to Sport For Life for the Physical Literacy for Communities (PL) presentation provided by Drew Mitchell with the session recording and ppt to be available soon for distribution. The event featured a presentation, discussion on benefits for Councils and how PL for Communities might be an answer to many of our communities’ challenges.
• CSCO Research project update: The research team is in the final stages in the development of a sport survey to be delivered to the community sport network in Ontario. It will be released soon to identify capacity building best practices and to assess our networks operational success and to make recommendations on the future sustainability of our community sport network.
• Team Canada attended the 2024 Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon, South Korea from Jan 19-Feb 1. See Team Canada’s team list of 15-18 yr. olds in 7 sports, details here: https://bit.ly/3SkDYZ3. Let’s recognize our community athlete’s who have qualified and competed in these games?

Events:

• 2024 Ontario Winter Games, Thunder Bay, Feb 15-19 and Feb 23-26. Thirteen sports featuring 1,350 athletes will compete in Thunder Bay on two separate weekends in February.
• Coaching Association of Ontario-Coaching conference Summit series-March 23 in Hamilton, see info here: https://www.coachesontario.ca/calendar/summit-series/ and coaching report: https://safesport101.coachesontario.ca/report/
• Sport Oakville AGM (virtual), Feb 20 at 7:00 pm, see details here: http://sportoakville.com/agm/
• Sport Aurora AGM (in person), Feb 21 at 7:00 pm, see details here: https://www.sportaurora.ca/Admin/SideMenu/DispSideMenuContentMain.aspx?menuID=214
• Royal Roads University offers an Excellence in Community Sport Webinar on Feb 15, free virtual event, see info here: https://sirc.ca/events/events-conferences/excellence-in-community-sport/. Does Canadian sport need a broader definition of success in sport? Perhaps it needs to include “health and well being along with high performance outcomes that excite us to win better”
• Ontario Soccer Summit, Feb 23-25 hosted by Ontario Soccer & the York Region Soccer Association, see info here: https://www.ontariosoccer.net/soccer-summit
• Youth Sports Summit on April 24 at Brock University. The Center for Healthy Youth Development through sport at Brock and YouthRex offer a first ever Summit from 9 am to 4 pm, see info here: https://brocku.ca/chyds/youth-sport-summit/

 Grants:

• Participaction Community Challenge grants are open now till Feb 13. Apply today for community grants of up to $1,500. This national physically activity challenge encourages everyone to get active in Canada in June in search for Canada’s most active community awarding it $100,000 to support physical activity and sport initiatives, see info here: https://www.participaction.com/programs/community-challenge/
• Canadian Tire Jumpstart-Community Action grants-two funding streams are available: Programming support and Operational support. Timelines for programs focusing on kids (4-18 yrs.) or youth with disabilities (4-25 yrs.) starting May 1-Aug 31, 2024 with grant application deadline is Feb 16, 2024. See details here: http://www.jumpstart.canadiantire.ca

Resources:

• Ontario ParaSport February 2024 newsletter just released, see attachment for details and its latest magazine, see link for details: https://parasportontario.ca/media-and-articles/parasport-magazine
• MLSE Sport Change the Games Research project focuses on understanding “sport & play related to access, engagement and equality for youth across Ontario”, see link here: https://www.mlsefoundation.org/change-the-game-research-project
• Ottawa Sport Council shares an AI presentation. Want to know how AI is “changing how we experience and consume sports”? See the online link here: https://sportottawa.ca/ai-use-in-community-sport/ and AI tools-attached, thanks Sport Ottawa!
• The Space Coalition-Pre-Budget submission is now available, see attachment for details: Top recommendations; Increase Community Use of Schools funding by 3 mil, Support School Boards by 7.04 mil for community outreach and 8.25 mil to support free/low-cost facility permits for high need neighbourhoods and 1.15 mil for Focus on Youth program for a total of 19.44 million
• ONCA Compliance-see recently updated By Laws from Sport Aurora as an example of a proactive Council: https://www.sportaurora.ca/filestore/htmleditattachedfiles/sport_aurora_constitution_final2020-02-19t11-13-28v001_by_101.pdf. Have questions on compliance? Contact CSCO anytime.

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