Medicine Hat: Be Fit For Life
Ever Active Communities in Medicine Hat builds off of the 40 year legacy of the Be Fit for Life Network, supporting active, healthy lifestyles across the lifespan. The team values opportunities for collective action and responds to local needs identified through engagements with various collaboratives.
The team in Medicine Hat provides wellness opportunities for priority populations, including women and girls, newcomer youth, Indigenous youth, and gender and sexually diverse students, with a focus on reducing barriers to participation for individuals within these groups. Some of the projects and opportunities include:
- Free weekly Girls on the Move and Kids on the Move programming
- Everybody Plays School programming
- Seniors Fun & Fitness Classes
- Yoga & Fitness Classes for all levels
- Youth Wellness Leader Certification
- Resettlement Through Recreation
- Inclusive Play Visits
- Professional Learning Opportunities
- Afterschool & Community Everybody Plays Leagues of Play
- Youth Run Clubs and support for school-led community fun walks and runs
- Jays Care Foundation Affiliate Schools program
- Collaborative events including: Moving & Choosing Community Networking Forum, Student Wellness Leader Conference, Adaptive Sport Festival and Medicine Hat Culture Days
Medicine Hat is known for collaborative efforts and working together on identified community priority topics. Kindness and connection continue to emerge as a priority area for the community, supporting an upstream approach to health and well-being.
- Moving and Choosing promotes the theme through professional development and networking opportunities
- Ever Active Schools’ Leagues of Play, funded by Canadian Tire Jumpstart, is creating a sense of belonging through engagement in sport in their afterschool and noon hour programming
- The Resettlement through Recreation project continues to provide newcomers with physical activity opportunities and community experiences in Brooks and Medicine Hat
- The annual Adaptive Sport Festival, in partnership with Medicine Hat Adaptive Sport & Recreation, draws students with disabilities and their educators and supports to a day of sport and friendships
- What Matters to Hatters Kindness & Connection Campaigns
- Fun & Fitness offers a sense of community for senior participants
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