Strategic Plan For Advocacy

Strategic plan for advocacy

Name of Student: Hadar Mustafa

Name of Organization: kids sport

URL include URL) http://www.kidsportcanada.ca/ontario/

Issue: All famalies understand that putting their children into organized sports and activities can be a real strain on the wallet. Kids sport will work to help children and youth in order to remove financial barriers that prevent them from playing prepared sport. For example; Canada is best known as an international hockey powerhouse. However, the value of the sport may be making it less frequent amongst children in this country.

Why: (why are you passionate about this issue)

I love to see healthy children, and I love helping children improve their skills. Participation in different sports

Who started it? Why did it start?

As the cost of registration fees and equipment was raising, so that eventually leading to reduced participation. The Sports BC’s Board of Directors acknowledged that, then they proposed the KidSport concept. The Kid Sport was adopted all over the country in 1993 at the Yearly General Meeting of the Canadian Council of Provincial and Territorial Sports Federations. In 2000, the KidSport program was launched in Ontario by Sports Alliance Ontario, a leading sports development agency in the province.

Since its creation in 1993, in excess of 400,000 children across the nation have been given the opportunities to play sport through KidSport grants and sports introduction

• Financial

Who are the current Stakeholders and their perspectives:

Today there are 11 provincial and territorial chapters and more than 175 community KidSport committees working hard to support children across Canada. All are working to help children in need. In Ontario, Kid Sport includes a provincial office and 23 volunteer community chapters. Every community chapter is led by passionate volunteers who have faith in that sport, and its benefits would be every child’s right. All of the episodes work directly with the families that are facing barriers to their child's contribution in organized sport within their catchment.

Advocacy target: Networks, coalitions, and businesses:

Who needs to know about the issues? How are you going to work with them?

• Government, Statistics Canada (Fitness of Canadian children and youth), social services, teacher, community, school, public health, doctor or family services staff.

• Volunteer to raise money, Become a Corporate Sponsor of Kid Sport, Volunteer with KidSport, and ensure all kids can