HEROS hockey provides young people experiencing significant financial, social, physical, and cognitive barriers with free hockey-based mentorship programming focused around four core behaviours; listening, respect, discipline, and having fun. Players are given everything they need to succeed on the ice, including equipment, transport to and from the rink, and healthy snacks, while also being provided with crucial educational and personal development opportunities off the ice as well.
The IRCOM Hockey Project aims to familiarize newcomer children and youth with their initial experiences in skating and hockey, with the overarching objective of cultivating winter sport skills and fostering engagement in physical activities. We strive to extend this opportunity to children who might otherwise be excluded from participating in winter sports due to various challenges faced by refugee families, including trauma, language barriers, prolonged adjustment to life in Canada, and socio-economic obstacles. The program aims to bridge the gap by making hockey and skating accessible to these children and youth, addressing both the novelty of the sports and the multifaceted barriers encountered by refugee families.
The Hockey Fans in the Stands program plans to distributes more than 25,000 hockey tickets estimated $1.8 million in 2024. The Doc Seaman Amateur Sport Grants in supporting this program has become the Canadian leader in removing barriers to access to hockey games for deserving childrenyouthfamilies. Kids Up Front utilizes our established programs, resources and collaborative relationships with donors and venues to ensure all kids have access to live hockey games and hockey events in their community at no cost to the recipients. Kids Up Front is small and flexible, making it easy to develop a partnership that will recognize your Foundation’s community investment and deliver a high impact, collaborative and responsive program.
KidSport PEI provides grants to help cover the costs of registration fees and/or equipment so that kids aged 18 and under, whose families face financial barriers, can play a season of sport.
Increase capacity for larger teams in the player boxes.
To inspire the community to enjoy the sport of Pickleball and Tennis at all levels and all ages and abilities, with a focus on getting seniors active and our youth, in a healthy and inclusive manner. One of the pillars of the center’s strategic plan will be to introduce youth to the sport of Pickleball through a ’10k in 5′ program that will target school age children in the surrounding area, providing professional instruction to 10,000 youth over the next five years, creating long term demand of the facility. Overall the project goals are to promote healthy, active lifestyles and foster social connections for all ages and abilities.
UCM supports vulnerable low income newcomer youth. The goal is to provide access to community programs engaging these youth by providing safe, accessible transport that otherwise would not be available due to parents working multiple jobs, lack of affordability or inaccessibility for those living in public housing whom Umoja serves. The risk of anti-social behaviour and substance misuse looms due to limited access to healthy activities and ongoing language and cultural learning. We aim to purchase 2 vans, 1 with this grant, significantly enhancing our transportation capacity and outreach to newcomer vulnerable youth. Umoja can ensure these youth can attend, feel welcome, and gain access to community engagement and learning opportunities.
Eleven minor sports organizations and the University of Guelph will work together to host practical Safesport education sessions for youth coaches and athletes guided by University coaches, student-athletes and experts.
Our charity brought the adapted sport – Volt Hockey from Denmark to Alberta in 2021 (when we were able to actively run programming post pandemic). With the awareness of this sport and expansion to it in cities across Alberta, we are looking expand it in areas we currently deliver Volt Hockey in (Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie) so we can add more chairs in these regions so more children and youth with disabilities can engage in adapted sport.
To provide specific and working knowledge to approximately 40 frontline Outreach workers/Supervisors/Mangers in Indigenous cultural awareness toward fulfilling our responsibility for reconciliation and engagement in trauma informed care. Our outreach team supports older adults 55+ across Calgary (including family and caregivers) addressing social determinants of health including economic stability, social and community connections, health care, food security and many more. It is vital that our workers can access relevant, consistent, and affordable training that will challenge and provide them with tools and knowledge needed to support their daily work with diverse older adults in the community.