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This is a physical activity program that encourages individuals to walk 10,000 steps a day. This site contains information, resources and tools to get started.
Act Now Bc Physical Activity for Families
This site provides tips and and ideas for families to be more active.
Action Schools! BC is a program designed to assist schools in creating individualized plans to promote healthy living including physical activity.
The Activ8 is a curriculum-based physical activity challenge program that links to each province's health and physical education curriculum. This resource is also available through Manitoba Physical Education Teachers Association, contact mepta@shaw.ca.
The ACTive initiative helps to increase physical activity and sport opportunities for Canadian girls and women. The site provides information on resources, funding and program development.
Active Communities Initiative is a commitment to improve physical activity levels of British Columbians. This website can offer resources and information on community development.
Active Edmonton is an initiative promoting physical activity to all Edmonton residents.
Active Healthy Kids Canada is a charitable organization that provides articles, fact sheets, and other various tips and ideas for raising active, healthy children.
Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability
This site provides information to facilitate healthy active living opportunities for Canadians of all abilities.
The Active Living at work website suggests the benefits of being active in the workplace, summarizes the research that has been done, provides some information about what works and how to get started, as well as provides a template for practitioners to use in developing a business case for active living in their own organizations.
Active Living by Design is an American national program that establishes innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies.
Active Living Coalition for Older Adults
ALCOA, in partnership with its member organizations, encourages older Canadians to maintain and enhance their well-being and independence through a lifestyle that embraces physical activity and active living. This website offers information and research relative to older adults and physical activity.
Active Living Coalition for Older Adults in Manitoba (ALCOA-MB)
ALCOA-MB, a partnership of organizations and individuals having interest in the field of aging, encourages older Manitobans to maintain and enhance their well-being through a lifestyle that embraces daily physical activities.
Active Transportation - Canada
Active Transportation - Canada features a regular posting of news articles, studies, reports, and other items that have relevance in this field, with previous postings available in an archive. In addition, pictures of existing Active Transportation infrastructure from communities across Canada are profiled.
This site provides tips and facts about seniors and active living.
Alberta Centre for Active Living
This website provides research, resources and tools for the promotion of physical activity.
Alberta Centre for Active Living: Physical Activity @ Work
Improve your workplace by bringing physical activity into the workday. This user-friendly website helps employers, employees, workplace wellness coordinators and human resources advisors encourage physical activity @ work. You'll find information about setting up, running and evaluating a workplace physical activity initiative, success stories and workplace activity ideas. The website also includes useful tools such as the Yoga @ Your Desk, Stretching @ Your Desk, and Exercising Your Hands and Wrists video and a personal Activity Tracker.
American College of Sports Medicine Fit Society Newsletter
This electronic newsletter is written for the general public on a variety of popular health and fitness topics. Expert commentary and features on exercise, nutrition, sports, and health offer tips and techniques for maintaining a physically fit lifestyle.
This not for profit organization offers many development winter programs directed towards children and youth grades 3-12 from October to April. These programs teach children the basics of badminton and get the body moving with fun games and coaching.
be active is South Australia's physical activity strategy established by the State Government to get more South Australians more active, more often.
This site includes useful information and resources on cycling as a form of active transportation.
This site contains tools for understanding physical activity and how it relates to children and youth as well as teaching and implementing physical activity for children and youth.
Canada's Healthy Workplace Week
Canada's Healthy Workplace is an online resource and the home of Canada's Healthy Workplace Week - a yearly celebration of workplace health in Canadian organizations.
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living
A guide to help individuals to make wise choices about physical activity.
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living
Canada's Physical Activity Guides for Adults and Older Adults provide a set of national guidelines to help Canadians improve their health through regular physical activity.
Canada's Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living for Older Adults
This Guide serves as a roadmap for older adults - explaining why physical activity is important, offering tips and easy ways to increase their physical activity, and stating how much is needed to maintain good health and improved quality of living later in life.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS)
This site contains information about programs and tools to increasing women and girls' participation in sport and physical activity.
Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
The Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute provides statistical information and other research resources on the physical activity levels among Canadians.
Canadian Parks and Recreation Association
The Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA) is the national voice for a vibrant grassroots network with partnerships that connect people who build healthy, active communities and impact the everyday lives of Canadians.
Centre for Disease Control (CDC)
The CDC website offers great resources on the importance of physical activity, measuring physical activity and making physical activity part of daily life.
Children in Sport - A resource manual for sport leaders
This comprehensive 300-page manual has many physical activity lesson plans and activity ideas.
The Coalition for Active Living is a group of 80 organizations that focus on health promotion and disease prevention through physical activity. This website has a variety of resources and links for people interested in promoting physical activity.
The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. Some examples of the tools found in this site are in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing and evaluation.
The do physical activity campaign was developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and the American Heart Association. The purpose is to encourage all Minnesotans to make healthier choices and increase their physical activity throughout the day.
This site provides information and resources to help provide an environment that fosters healthy eating and active living in school age children and youth.
This site offers a number of ideas for families to get moving together and describes physical activities for children aged 3 to 13.
Family Guide to Physical Activity for Children
This family-friendly resource guide is filled with tips, information and ideas to help parents, caregivers and guardians help their children learn about the importance of physical activity and increase their activity levels.
Family Guide to Physical Activity for Youth
This resource guide is filled with tips, information and ideas to help parents, caregivers and guardians raise healthy youth and learn about the importance of physical activity to achieve life-long health benefits.
Get your Move on is a Toronto based strategy to increase physical activity levels by creating more opportunities and reducing barriers to enable all residents to be physically active where they live, work, learn and play.
GO2 is a city-wide physical activity initiative designed specifically for the citizens of Calgary. It is a cooperative and collaborative effort between multiple organizations that have an interest in encouraging healthy, vibrant, and physically active Calgarians.
Gotta Move Interactive Magazine for Children
This interactive activity magazine is targeted to children up to nine years old and it promotes the importance of physical activity and how it affects their bodies.
Healthy U is an initiative to support and encourage Albertans to lead healthier lifestyles by providing them with access to information on healthy eating and active living.
This site contains physical activity information for parents and teachers.
Let's Get Active Interactive Magazine for Youth
This interactive activity magazine is targeted to youth aged 10-14 and it promotes the importance of physical activity and how it affects their body.
Lifestyle Information Network (LIN)
LIN is the home of Canada's National Recreation Database. If your organization is working to promote healthy active people and communities, LIN is Canada's repository for the knowledge and collective wisdom that will help you get the work done faster.
This website contains useful information for kids, parents, teachers and coaches to get information on being active.
Living Traditions - Museums Honour the North American Indigenous Games
This site has games and sports based on traditional North American aboriginal games.
Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism Regional Services Offices
The Recreation and Regional Services Branch offers information on available grants, recreational trails, contact information for provincial and local recreation organizations and more.
This site contains tips and resources for cycling as a form of active transportation.
Manitoba Exercise Professionals Association
MEPA is an organization which represents Manitoba physical activity professionals who have university degrees in Kinesiology or Physical Education. MEPA provides a number of services such a personal fitness training, lifestyle counseling, fitness assessments and fitness programming.
Manitoba Exercise Professionals Association (MEPA)
Represents Manitoba physical activity professionals who have university degrees in Exercise Science/Kinesiology. MEPA provides a number of services such as personal fitness training, lifestyle counselling, fitness assessment and fitness programming.
Manitoba Exercise Professionals Association (MEPA)
Represents Manitoba physical activity professionals who have university degrees in Exercise Science/Kinesiology. MEPA provides a number of services such as persona; fitness training, lifestyle counselling, fitness assessment and fitness programming.
The Manitoba Fitness Council has trained fitness leaders in communities and can be a resource to assist with programming ideas.
Manitoba Fitness Council (MFC)
Is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting quality in fitness leadership to provide Manitobans with safe, effective and enjoyable physical activity programs. If you are looking to get your workplace "in motion". the MFC can connect you with certified fitness leaders who can do presentations, lead physical activity classes, do fitness assessments, offer weight training tips and much more.
On the Move is a national initiative designed to increase opportunities for inactive girls and young women (ages 9-18) to participate and lead in sport and physical activity.
Active2010 is a comprehensive strategy to increase participation in sport and physical activity throughout Ontario.
ParticipACTION's mission is to provide leadership in collaboration and communications to foster the "movement" that inspires and supports Canadians to move more. ParticipACTION's vision is to work with its partners to ensure a Canadian society where people are the most physically active on Earth.
Pause to Play is a website for youth who want to be active.
Physical Activity Coalition of Manitoba (PACM)
PACM's mission is to support increased physical activity among Manitobans through collaboration, promotion, and education.
Physical and Health Education Canada (formerly CAHPERD)
Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE) is a national organization whose primary concern is to influence the healthy development of children and youth by advocating for quality, school-based physical and health education.
PlaySport has a listing of children's games. You can also submit your own games and activities to be added to their list.
Recreation Connections Manitoba
Recreation Connections Manitoba is dedicated to enhancing the health and wellness of all Manitobans through the development and support of recreation professionals, practitioners and volunteers.
Resource Conservation Manitoba
This organization encourages the use of active modes of transportation to and from school, households, workplaces and communities. This site also provides information about the Commuter Challenge and how to register.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A tool kit and media kit to help communities promote physical activity and create environments for physical activity.
Shake, Rattle and Roll is a physical activity program for toddlers, aged 2 - 4, and their parents. The program has been developed as a Manual and Teaching Guide.
Sport Manitoba is the home of amateur sport in the Province of Manitoba. It provides information on sport programs and services and over 100 partner organizations involved in the development and promotion of amateur sport in Manitoba.
Stairway to Health is a Health Canada initiative to encourage employees to "Take the Stairs". This site provides registration information, tools and resources to promote active living in the workplace.
Teacher's Guide to Physical Activity for Children
This Teacher's Guide has been developed to help children up to the age of 9 understand the importance of physical activity and how it affects their bodies.
Teacher's Guide to Physical Activity for Youth
This Teacher's Guide has been developed to help children ages 10-14 understand the importance of physical activity and how it affects their bodies.
The Canadian Council for Health and Active Living at Work (CCHALW)
Contributes to the advancement of health and active living at work by providing resources, tools and expertise to active living and health professionals in Canadian workplaces.
This website offers tools, case studies, and a planning guide to help people take action and adopt habits that promote health and/or are more environmentally-friendly. It will also help you include in your programs the best practices of many other programs - practices that have already been successful in changing people's behavior.
The VERB campaign encouraged tweens to be physically active every day.
This site provides resources on how to build awareness and promote healthy living within your workplace with links to helpful tips and information.
Wiggle, Giggle & Munch: a time for parents and children to have fun together through active play, games, action songs and enjoy a healthy snack. Wiggle, Giggle & Munch program leader handbooks are also available. Program leader training is also being offered several times a year.
