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2017 Sport for Life Canadian Summit: Nurturing Excellence Le Sommet canadien de Le sport c'est pour la vie 2017 Développer l'excellence Wednesday January 25 / mercredi 25 janvier Registration & Coffee / Inscription et café 7:30 – 8:30 Welcome / Bienvenue 8:30 – 9:00 Keynote / Discours-programme – TBD TBD 9:00 – 9:30 Transition 9:30 – 9:45 Session A 9:45 – 10:45 A1 Developing Excellence in Your Youth Sports Organization John O’Sullivan Excellence in Sport Development This program teaches leadership teams how to progressively improve through a three-pronged approach to excellence. Changing the Game Project It teaches how to estaBlish relevant core values, improve parent education, and implement coaching education that Individual focuses not only upon athlete development, but development of the whole person. Far too many sports organizations focus upon programming that affects a very small percentage of high-performance athletes. This program teaches them how to serve every individual while still serving the needs of the elite athlete. A2 TBC TBC Excellence in High Performance Sport A3 1. Strength and Conditioning for the Paralympic Athlete 1. Jonathan Ritchot Excellence in High Performance Sport As the world of Paralympic Sport continues to grow, strength and conditioning programs are becoming an essential Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE) piece to assist our Paralympic Athletes in achieving optimal performances. In order to create a training environment that truly nurtures excellence, there are a numBer of factors that need to Be in place: 1. An open and welcoming training environment 2. Effective use of Long-Term Athlete Development principles 3. Persistent focus on improvement - process and effectiveness 4. Considering needs of the person/athlete and the program oBjectives 5. NSO/PSO alignment and leadership 2. Strength and Conditioning for Female Athletes 2. Amy Moolyk This presentation will identify the areas of growth needed in strength and conditioning for female athletes by Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) exploring current Best practices and relevant sport science research. It is imperative that all stakeholders involved in the development of female athletes understand the importance of effective physical preparation to enhance performance and prevent injuries. Although there is a high participation of female athletes at various levels of competition, it can Be argued that the sport community does not yet fully appreciate the unique strength and conditioning needs of the female athlete. This presentation will specifically address the importance of strength and conditioning to the female athlete, and highlight strategies that may Be used to challenge the culture of girls and women engaging in strength exercises. It will discuss methods to Best meet the needs of female athletes across various sports and development levels and explore the Barriers and challenges faced By female athletes in accessing effective strength and conditioning programs. Currently, critical windows of opportunities are not Being maximized and further work needs to Be completed to create optimal conditions that support the long-term physical development of women and girls. A4 1. Injury Surveillance: What Gets Measured, Gets Managed 1. Brandy Tanenbaum Technology ContriButing to Excellence Injury is a clear threat to quality sport programming. Separate from the risk of injury, which can be emBraced as Sunnybrook Health Sciences part of the fun and excitement of sport participation, actual injury is a lead factor in sport withdrawal for young people in Canada. Where, when, why and to whom injuries occur in recreational and high performance sport Susan Forbes remains largely unknown. In the modern environment where Basic technology allows instant sharing of information University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) across the gloBe it is simply unacceptable that collectively we do not know a simple count of how many concussions, ACL, or Broken arm injuries occur in organized sport programming in Canada. Further, the lack of granular information precludes organizations from implementing strategies to create safer pathways to performance and improve the overall experience of the athlete. Preventing injury is not about eliminating the fundamentals of the activities, but rather enhancing the strategic operation of the organization to provide the best possible outcome for athletes within the parameters of that activity. Borrowing from H.J. Harrington, measuring injury is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure injury, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it. This 2017 Sport for Life Canadian Summit: Nurturing Excellence Le Sommet canadien de Le sport c'est pour la vie 2017 Développer l'excellence presentation will highlight a Canadian solution - Play Safe Injury Tracker - that leverages today’s technology to provide a free weB-enabled platform for sport organizations to address the gaps descriBed earlier. The online tool was developed By sector experts, through extensive multi-sector consultation and has Been successful in tracking injury at multi-sport and single sport competitions, and season-long sessions. This presentation will provide the rationale for Building a national injury surveillance strategy to enhance the Canadian sport system and drive quality experiences for all participants. Attendees will be introduced to internationally recognized approaches and models for injury surveillance in sport and will also have a hands-on opportunity to use the Play Safe Injury Tracker. 2. Using Athlete Monitoring to Prevent Injuries and Maximizing Athletes’ Well-Being and Performance 2. Francois Gazzano According to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), half of sports injuries are preventable and recent sport- FITSTATS Technologies, Athletemonitoring.com science research has identified effective tools and strategies that can Be used to effectively prevent sports injuries. During this session, you will learn more aBout the latest scientific findings on workload, lifestyle and well-being- related injury predictors. You will also learn how to Better individualize training loads, recovery, and minimize the risk of injury using evidence-based monitoring techniques, workload management strategies and cost-effective athlete monitoring technology. A5 1. Addressing Substance Use Through Youth Sport Programs 1. Anna McKiernan Excellence for Life Compared to any other time period in life, substance use and sport participation are most prevalent in Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) adolescence. Participating in sport can keep youth engaged in the community and offer opportunities to Build positive social relationships, self-confidence and life skills. However, research findings to date have shown that participation in sport is associated with an increase in alcohol use, a decrease in illicit drug use, with inconsistent results regarding marijuana use. This is concerning as suBstance use can negatively affect positive youth development. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) is working with researchers and practitioners across sectors to Better understand the relationship Between youth sport participation and patterns of suBstance use to ensure the benefits of sport participation can be maximized and the risks minimized. CCSA conducted an environmental scan of youth sport programs that address suBstance use (e.g., providing education on drug harms). The scan captures the effectiveness of sport programs in reducing suBstance use among this population and provides implications for prevention efforts based on the findings. This presentation will provide an overview of current research and knowledge exchange efforts to Better understand the relationship between sport participation and substance use, including the results from the environmental scan. Recommendations for moving forward with utilizing sport as means of youth suBstance use prevention will Be discussed. 2. The Social Impact of Sport and Recreation Funding Through Jumpstart 2. Marco Di Buono Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities (Jumpstart) is a nationally registered charity that helps kids from financially Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities (Jumpstart) disadvantaged families to participate in sport and physical activity. Since 2005, Jumpstart has helped over 1 million Canadian children in communities across Canada. This presentation will briefly review four unique case studies of community development programs launched with the support of Jumpstart. The first is a program developed with the Keewatin Patricia District School Board focused on psycho-social health and wellBeing in ABoriginal and First nations youth; the second is a program developed with the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal local police station 30 focused on crime prevention and youth engagement; the third will explore the impact of a comprehensive after-school program run with the Surrey District School Board on youth workforce participation. The fourth case study will demonstrate how Jumpstart’s unique program delivery model allowed us to rapidly reach over 4,800 children of Syrian refugee families with the support of Sport Canada. Together, these four programs demonstrate how quality sport and recreation programs not only underpin health, happiness and success but can be designed to drive health and well-being in targeted ways. A6 1. Vision d'un mode de vie physiquement