Let’s Create a Reality Where Outdoor Programs Can Thrive and Be Appreciated for Their True Worth
The Canadian Outdoor Summit is an epic, national, historic project where participants are invited to...
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Outdoor Play Canada is a growing network of leaders and organizations working together to galvanize an outdoor play movement across Canada.
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Our aim is to reach multi-sector practitioners, and decision makers who influence and shape the time, space, and affordance people living in Canada have for outdoor play.
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We sprang from the diverse, cross-sector group that collaborated to create the 2015 Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play.
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The history of outdoor play advocacy, practice and research in Canada is diverse and strong. Recently, there has been a marked increase in multi-sector efforts to align our work and build a movement together.
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We conducted two systematic reviews to examine the best available scientific evidence on the net effect (i.e., balance of benefits vs. harms) of outdoor and risky active play.
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Knowledge mobilization is an important part of increasing every child's access to outdoor play. Use these evidence-informed tools to support outdoor play in your community.
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Latest News
Winter Walk Day 2020
Winter Walk Day is celebrated by schools across Ontario on the first Wednesday of February each year...
07 January, 2020 / No comment
“If In Doubt, Let Them Out” Article Published in The Conversation
On November 20th of last year, Outdoor Play Canada published an article titled, “If In Doubt, ...
06 January, 2020 / No comment
“It is scary, but then I just do it anyway” – A program to guide childcare professionals in promoting risky outdoor play
Thank you to Martin van Rooijen, MEd, PhD-candidate (University of Humanistic Studies, the Netherlan...
26 November, 2019 / No comment
Play Wales Publishes New Research on What Children Say About Play in Wales
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC...
21 November, 2019 / No comment
If In Doubt, Let Them Out – A Child’s Right to Play
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decl...
20 November, 2019 / 1 Comment
Let Your Kid Play Outside
Yesterday, Dr. Mark Tremblay was interviewed by CTV Ottawa about the decline in outdoor play among C...
31 October, 2019 / No comment
Ontario Parks Needs Your Input
Make sure your voice is heard. Ontario Parks is halfway through the Healthy Parks Healthy People con...
30 October, 2019 / No comment
Running Free: Children’s Independent Mobility
Check out the new documentary “Running Free: Children’s Independent Mobility”! Told through th...
08 October, 2019 / No comment