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About Us
• Active Healthy Kids Canada is a national charitable organization established in
1994 that works to power the movement to get kids moving ™
• Provides strategic national leadership – advancing knowledge, evidenceinformed communication and advocacy strategies – to influence issue
stakeholders who affect physical activity opportunities for children and youth
• The primary vehicle to achieve this mandate is the Active Healthy Kids
Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth and its
related activities
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Report Card
The Report Card, now in its ninth year of production, is an evidence-informed
communications and advocacy piece designed to provide insight into Canada’s
“state of the nation” each year on how, as a country, we are being responsible in
providing physical activity opportunities for children and youth.
Our model has been replicated in other jurisdictions around the world including
Kenya, South Africa, Mexico and Louisiana.
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Report Card Indicators and Grades
• The 2013 Report Card assigns letter grades to
17 different indicators grouped into three
categories.
• Grades are based on an examination of current
data against a benchmark along with an
assessment of trends over time, international
comparisons and the presence of disparities.
• Together, the indicators provide a robust and
comprehensive assessment of physical activity
of Canadian children and youth
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Methodology
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Grade assignments
are determined based on examination of the
current data and literature for each indicator against a
benchmark or optimal scenario, assessing the indicator
to be poor, adequate, good or excellent:
A = We are succeeding with a large majority of
children and youth.
B = We are succeeding with well over half of
children and youth.
C = We are succeeding with about half of children
and youth.
D = We are succeeding with less than half, but some,
children and youth.
F = We are succeeding with very few children and youth.
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2013 Key Data Sources
• Canadian Health Measures Survey
(CHMS)
• Opportunities for Physical Activity at
School Survey (CFLRI)
• Canadian Physical Activity Levels
Among Youth Survey (CANPLAY;
CFLRI)
• Physical Activity Monitor (PAM; CFLRI)
• Quebec en Forme
• Health Behaviour of School-aged
Children Survey (HBSC)
• School Health Action Planning and
Evaluation System – Prince Edward
Island (SHAPES-PEI)
• Healthy Living Habits Study (HLHS)
• Youth Smoking Survey (YSS)
• Keeping Pace
In addition, the long form Report Card includes a comprehensive set of
references and a variety of specific recommendations in each section and can
be accessed at www.activehealthykids.ca.
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Federal Government Strategies & Investments
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Federal Government Strategies & Investments
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Federal Government Strategies & Investments
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• 56% of Canadian parents are aware of the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit
(CFTC).144
Federal Government Strategies & Investments
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Recommendations
• The federal government should develop an action plan based on the
recommendations within Active Canada 20/20 and provide financial support for
implementation.
• The federal government should continue to increase the priority of physical
activity across several government departments including sport, health,
transportation, and environment.
• The federal government should continue to provide communities with financial
resources to invest in infrastructure that supports active transportation. It should
also ensure the eligibility of infrastructure that supports active transportation
within the New Long-Term Infrastructure Plan as suggested by a national active
transportation coalition.
• The federal government should invest 2% of the $200 billion spent on health
care annually in Canada to increase its investment in the promotion of physical
activity, recreation and sport because of demonstrated positive effects on
reducing healthcare costs.145
Federal Government Strategies & Investments
Research Gaps
• There is a need for more evaluation of physical activity policies.
• There is a need for clear budgeting and accounting in order to better understand
investments related to physical activity.
Federal Government Strategies & Investments
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2013 Grade
C
Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies &
Investments Benchmarks
Evidence of leadership and commitment in providing physical activity
opportunities for all children and youth.
Allocated funds and resources for the implementation of physical activity
promotion strategies and initiatives for all children and youth.
Demonstrated progress through the key stages of public policy making
(i.e., policy agenda, policy formation, policy adoption, policy
implementation, policy evaluation and decisions about the future).
Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies & Investments
Key Findings
• The future development of after-school programming that involves physical
activity is a major priority in 8 of 13 (62%) provincial/territorial jurisdictions in
Canada.153
• The median after-school programming expenditure per capita for 5- to 14-yearolds across 9 Canadian provinces and territories is $12.85; it ranges from
$101.37 (Northwest Territories) to $0.59 (New Brunswick) (Figure 20).153, 154
• 7 of 13 (54%) provincial/territorial jurisdictions in Canada have adopted a
formal policy to increase afterschool programming that involves physical
activity.153
Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies & Investments
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Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies & Investments
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Key Findings
• 6 of 13 (46%) provincial/territorial jurisdictions in Canada have implemented a fitness
tax credit for children and youth
Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies & Investments
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Recommendations
• Provincial/territorial governments should develop action plans based on the
recommendations within Active Canada 20/20.
• Governments should intentionally address people with the greatest need and
access issues by targeting policies to eliminate disparities in participation levels
• There is a need to keep working on coordinated alignment and collaboration
both within and across jurisdictions in order to maximize resources to increase
physical activity for children and youth.
• There is a need to invest in communications and implementation of policy
initiatives so that those affected can work on the ground to support them and,
with the public, help keep the momentum once the policy is adopted.
Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies & Investments
Research Gaps
• There is a need for more evaluation of physical activity policies.
• There is a need for clear budgeting and accounting in order to better
understand investments related to physical activity.
Provincial/Territorial Government Strategies & Investments
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2013 Grade
B+
Non-Government Strategies & Investments
Benchmarks
Evidence of leadership and commitment in providing physical activity
opportunities for all children and youth.
Allocated funds and resources for the implementation of physical activity
promotion strategies and initiatives for all children and youth.
Demonstrated progress through the key stages of public policy making
(i.e., policy agenda, policy formation, policy adoption, policy
implementation, policy evaluation and decisions about the future).
Non-Government Strategies & Investments
Key Findings
• Active Canada 20/20 continues to make steady progress toward policy adoption
by stakeholders and federal/provincial/territorial governments. In June 2012,
federal/provincial/territorial ministers responsible for amateur sport, physical
activity and recreation pledged to examine the Active Canada 20/20
recommendations from the perspective of their own jurisdiction, and engage
their physical activity stakeholder community with a view to advancing further
action to increase health-enhancing physical activity.
• The Canadian Parks and Recreation Association is leading the development of
a national recreation agenda that will refocus and strengthen the delivery of
recreation in Canada beyond 2015.
• Canadian Sport For Life continues to progress through the key stages of public
policy making, with implementation happening in all provinces/territories across
Canada.
Non-Government Strategies & Investments
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Non-Government Strategies & Investments
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Key Findings
• Several private-sector organizations are providing funding to support the
delivery of after-school programs and to reduce financial barriers to participate
in sport.
Non-Government Strategies & Investments
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Recommendations
• Non-government organizations, industry and philanthropic groups should
maintain healthy active living as a priority area for funding as a fundamental
contribution to healthy individuals, families, communities and overall society.
• There is a need for increased coordination to ensure alignment between
emerging strategies and investments, and sustained progress toward improving
the grade on future Report Cards.
• Community organizations from across all sectors should work together to
develop policies that identify community assets for physical activities and
maximize use of those assets through shared-use plans and agreements
Non-Government Strategies & Investments
Research Gaps
• There is a need for increased evaluation of nongovernment initiatives related to
physical activity promotion.
• Evaluation efforts of non-government initiatives should focus on both process
indicators such as partnership development and collaboration and outcome
indicators such as contribution to increasing physical activity.
Non-Government Strategies & Investments
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Thank you to…
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Our Funders
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Strategic Partners
The Healthy Active Living and
Obesity Research Group at
the Children’s Hospital of
Eastern Ontario Research
Institute provides leadership
on scientific data collection
and analysis and the content
development process for the
Report Card and related
knowledge-exchange
activities.
ParticipACTION provides
leadership on communications
strategy, marketing, media
and public relations support
and provides Active Healthy
Kids Canada with access to
organizational infrastructure
and administrative support.
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2013 Research Work Group
• Dr. Mark Tremblay (Chief Scientific
Officer)
• Dr. Rachel Colley (Chair and Scientific
Officer)
• Joel Barnes (Research Manager and
Lead Author)
• Mike Arthur (Department of Health and
Wellness, Nova Scotia)
• Christine Cameron (Canadian Fitness
and Lifestyle Research Institute)
• Jean-Philippe Chaput (Children’s
Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research
Institute)
• Guy Faulkner (University of Toronto)
• Ian Janssen (Queen’s University)
• Angela Kolen-Thompson (St. Francis
Xavier University)
• Stephen Manske (Propel Centre for
Population Health Impact, University of
Waterloo)
• Art Salmon (Ministry of Tourism, Culture
and Sport, Ontario)
• John C. Spence (University of Alberta)
• Brian Timmons (McMaster University)
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For more information
[email protected]
www.activehealthykids.ca
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