Provincial funding is helping more kids stay active across Ontario.
$15.3 million is being pumped into over 100 organizations that provide fun, safe and supervised activities for children and youth across the province through inclusive team sports and active recreation programs.
Among the programs receiving funding:
- $14.6 million through Ontario’s After School Program (ASP) to help children and youth in more than 80 communities be active and healthy
- $550,000 to Special Olympics Ontario to expand the Unified Sport Program to more schools across the province. This program strengthens student engagement and well-being through inclusive team sport activities for students with and without intellectual disabilities
- $100,000 to Jays Care to help more girls benefit from sports programming, while training educators and coaches on how to promote inclusion in sport
- $59,000 to Canadian Women & Sport to research the underrepresentation of girls, young women and marginalized youth in sport/physical activity and share findings with school boards. The funding will also be used to help boards identify and address gender equity challenges in their schools
Officials say the programs help more than 13,000 children and youth, from kindergarten to Grade 12, in more than 80 communities across the province.