- “Take the inspiration I have received over the past two days and pay it forward. I will share this enthusiasm with my community, my colleagues, my students, the families and children I work with, and my own family starting now.”
- “Do all in my power to encourage my peers to become more physically active and to experience nature and to help host events for these disadvantaged to do so.”
- “To build technologies that foster positive physical, outdoor, social play.”
- “To do an event to get people outdoors and moving! I really would like to do my idea and do the FORT in the winter.”
- “Become more civically engaged by participating in community decision-making activities and contacting MPs in provincial parliament. ”
- “Bring awareness to our parent groups around the importance of bringing children back to nature, and vice versus.”
- “Pledge to help children learn how to play more outdoors – then take the seeds of what they learn back home to teach their parents to play more, too!”
- “Share my knowledge on this topic, specifically in how it relates to childhood obesity and sustainability, through my research and writing activities.”
- “Inform more people about what I have learned during these past two days to promote change . . . activity, health and happiness.”
- “Continue building experiences in nature with children in daily programming and parent outreach about healthy and safety realistic expectations/awareness building.”
- “Incorporate the nature angle into conversations I am having relating to engaging overweight and obese children and youth in physical activity.”
- “Advocate the importance of engaging and reconnecting our young people to nature. As a leader I have an opportunity to provide professional development to the Early Childhood Educators that are employed by the organization I work for.”
- “Share this information with my colleagues in childcare and take a leadership position to move Healthy Children Healthy Spaces to a top priority in the field.”
HCHS Delegate Pledges
I pledge to . . .
Have Girl Guides take on the YIC community events as a national promotion within the organization.
Bring awareness in my school about the importance of PLAY and encourage them to get active.
Build partnerships with other non-profit organizations and determine what rol Girl Guides of Canada can play in promoting this issue.
Hook up with the parents of my daughters’ friends to plan diaries so they can have time together every week in the outdoors.
Share the information I received and learned to day and provide at least two new activities and/or programs that connect children to outdoor play and active play.
To use the information I learned wherever and whenever possible.
I will spend more time in nature and encourage my family and colleagues to do the same. I want to get a natural playground built where needed in my community.
Research and spread the work about the effects of not engaging in physical activity in the outdoors.
Contact Evergreen Learning Grounds to organize training for the Early Childhood Educators in Ottawa.
Take every opportunity in my professional and personal life to promote and encourage the development of child-friendly urban environments.
Invite other children into my family’s outdoor experiences.
Pass on the word and spend more time outdoors with family and friends.
Continue to share information that I have learned at this Forum and to practice what I preach!
To take my children cross-country skiing and skating more often this winter!
To promote healthy, active outdoor play in my children’s school by providing opportunities to get outside
Continue to be active in the Healthy Children Healthy Spaces cause.
Reach to find more ways to get involved and promote my opinions.
Promote others to release the child within, find happiness and play!!
Incorporate active play for children in already existing programs.
Increase the awareness of the detriment of not being physically active in the Early Years.
Engage our youth in this initiative through the Play Ranger Program.
Promote active, outdoor, unstructured play with my public health colleagues, with parents, children and educators.
Pledge to support ‘my’ youth delegates’ efforts to organize and win support for an event!
Do all in my power to convince people of the positive effects of physical activity and, in continuation, shall do all in my power to get them to increase physical activity, thereby creating a more active and healthy society.
To host youth event at Carp Ridge, if they would like this.
Encourage and foster the love of the outdoors and of play in children and for them to continue this love into their adulthood.
Continue to create programs to get children/youth/adults active for life.
Use my networks to promote the importance of play and thinking outside the box to make changes inside.
Document the health benefits of active transportation.
Share the importance of free play in nature with the facilitator of the children and youth evening program that I volunteer with in my neighborhood.
To promote a better understanding of our natural and cultural heritage through play by developing and applying the Footprints in Time trail enhancment program.
Plan activities/opportunities for children to get them play in the natural parts of the park.
Learn more about outdoor play and risk management for children and to help other youth get outside.
Get youth involved in the process of getting them active.