Sign up for The Bench!
- Published: July 21 2020 11:44
The new Canadian Parks and Recreation Association’s online community is here—a place for the sector to meet, work and grow together.
The Bench will initially provide support to the sector as it faces new challenges presented by COVID-19. Inside, you will find discussion forums and a resource library with templates, tools, guidelines and other documents that we hope will make your work easier.
Sign up if you don’t have an account. It’s FREE and open to all parks and recreation professionals and practitioners.
Join Project EXCEL
- Published: July 13 2020 14:20
Project EXCEL (EXercise for Cancer to Enhance Living Well)
We are looking to identify community partners and fitness professionals in rural/remote areas of Nova Scotia who are interested in delivering and leading exercise classes for cancer survivors in their community.
Project EXCEL is an extension of our existing ACCESS (Activating Cancer Communities through an Exercise) program and will provide an exercise and behavior change program to rural and remote cancer survivors across Canada. EXCEL will offer programs both online, and where available, in-person. We are supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), and the Alberta Cancer Foundation (ACF).
Why would you want to be involved with EXCEL as a fitness professional?
- All training is FREE. Fitness professionals will receive evidence-based training from Thrive Health, and an additional EXCEL training day (July 30, 2020). These trainings will build your knowledge so you can confidently work with cancer survivors and the EXCEL program.- Fitness leaders will be invited to additional online training webinars, focused on behaviour change, online delivery of fitness classes, maintaining social connections, and other topics.
- Fitness leaders will be paid to “moderate” online exercise classes during your first term (Fall 2020) of delivering the EXCEL program. Initially, our CSEP Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP), Joy Chiekwe will lead all the classes and will facilitate training and learning. It is hoped that by the end of the first session, your site(s) will be running the exercise class and facilitating education modules that accompany the classes. This progressive training ensures that everyone will feel comfortable running their own classes for the next session.
- It is our goal to create a network of fitness leaders who are experts in prescribing exercise for cancer survivors. This network will continue to provide outreach and education, while ensuring that we maintain the highest standards of practice when working with cancer survivors.
RNS News Release
- Published: June 02 2020 09:14
Download the news release HERE.
For more information, or further comment please contact Jacqualine Sommerfeld at: .
Call to Action from RNS and RFANS
- Published: April 28 2020 12:36
