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Promote benefits to companies and corporations that encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours

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Promote benefits to companies and corporations that encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours

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- show statistics and approach corporations to encourage a healthy lifestyle. This includes promoting workplaces with gyms/accessible activity areas, physical activity breaks for staff = more productivity, company incentives for physical activity teams e.g. fundraiser walks, sport teams, etc. Kids may exhibit behaviour learned at home, and if they have role models who do not participate in physical activity on a regular basis because of a poor work/life balance, this can lead to a sedentary lifestyle for children too

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Look at innovative practices from others. 

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Look at innovative practices from others. 

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Check out the apps that Public Health in the UK have developed:
Drinking (x2 abstinence and quantity)
Cooking and Healthy Eating
Physical Activity (x2 being active in 10 min spurts  to training to do a 5k)
smoking cessation

https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/apps#couch-to-5k-app#PZKPfKpPaqoftxM7.97

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Built Environment - need to advocate for health in all policies, particularly in building strong, healthy and livable communities.  Need senior level support and effort in this regard.

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Develop messaging  around sedentary behaviours and screen time across the lifespan - that doesn't evoke guilt - but maybe increases awareness of how often people are on devices etc., and provides realistic ideas for reducing screen time for kids and adults alike.

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Let's build internal capacity, understanding and consistent messages so ALL programs can talk about the key messages around PA, sedentary behaviours and built environment.
If all programs have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of these (and other) topics - we would be able to identify better ways to work together, more innovative partnerships etc., Plus the residents would hear a more consistent message from public health

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Work with school boards to advocate for physical activity linked to the school day.  Not teacher time but someone else supervising kids outside for an hour before and after school.  This allows time for unstructured outside play.  As well as helping with the issues families face with the school times not matching with the work day.  As well looking at walking to school programs.  Linking older kids from schools and/ or older adults in the neighbourhood to walk children to school.  

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Work with school boards to advocate for physical activity linked to the school day.  Not teacher time but someone else supervising kids outside for an hour before and after school.  This allows time for unstructured outside play.  As well as helping with the issues families face with the school times not matching with the work day.  As well looking at walking to school programs.  Linking older kids from schools and/ or older adults in the neighbourhood to walk children to school.  

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We need to focus on why people are not active. We can keep creating programs but if we do not address root problems and issues we will just have the same people attending the programs and we will not be making an impact on the overall health of our community. We could focus on some target populations rather than all the universal programming we do. We have been doing PA for years but rates have not changed. We are no better now than 10 years ago. Why is that?

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We are spread out in our programming. Perhaps if we had a clearer focus we could do a better job at having an impact. Perhaps we rotate initiatives. Multiple teams could help deliver aligned programming. More intense work but with better outcomes. Right now we have so many PA activities that happen in schools, communities etc. Is it possible to take a more comprehensive approach.

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We need to better streamline our physical activity programming. It is challenging to have it cross multiple teams. There is overlap that could be eliminated and we could be more efficient. one team should focus on PA for delivery in schools not two teams.

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Work with community groups/municipalities to host Region-wide activity days 

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Work with community groups/municipalities to host Region-wide activity days 

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For example - "YR Dance Day" send out a video of a dance routine that is easy to learn for all ages.  Communities select a large venue (eg.  school yard or community centre gym) to host the event where everyone around the region is dancing the same routine on the same day.  Post videos from the day on the YR website and enlist media to cover the event to build interest/engagement.  Solicit local dance schools to lead the routine on the day of. Another example could be Community Walk Days where walking is encouraged throughout the region, or Municipalities can host "walking events", or workplaces can encourage walking at some point during the day.

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In York Regional Forests that are accessible to schools as well as families. This may include after business hours activities as many parents may work during the day.

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Leverage participation of local businesses

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Leverage participation of local businesses

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Pilot a "passport"-like program for children/families that receive stamps from local businesses when they walk/bike to their business.  Provide small grants to these businesses, schools or community groups that host events that promote physical activity (eg. Zumba class/community walk).  Funding can be scaled based on number of participants.

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Merge programs from Active Healthy Communities, Healthy Aging, and Injury to focus on community wide safety.  Increasing safety in community, will increase physical activity (ie. separated bike lanes, lower speed limits in school zones, longer light times for aging population, etc.)

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Merge programs from Active Healthy Communities, Healthy Aging, and Injury to focus on community wide safety.  Increasing safety in community, will increase physical activity (ie. separated bike lanes, lower speed limits in school zones, longer light times for aging population, etc.)

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Using existing programs such as School Travel Planning and Active and Safe Routes to School as a way of encouraging active ways of getting to school (i.e. walking, cycling, "wheeling"). Using Walking Wednesday newsletter and changing focus to include parents, guardians, caregivers, teachers, principals, etc. Include information for parents/caregivers specific to municipalities (ie. traffic calming measures )

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