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Canadian Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion Conference

Details on the 2013 Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference

What: 2013 Canadian Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion Conference

When: November 5 to 7, 2013

Where: Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal

Conference theme: Evidence to Action: Prevent Injury and Violence Now!

The Sandbox Project Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group commends Toronto Public Health on not sending ‘Fat Letters’; warns of negative repercussions of weighing kids

The Sandbox Project’s Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group writes letter to Toronto Public Health to identify key issues to consider in its BMI study

To Whom It May Concern,

On behalf of The Sandbox Project charity and our Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group, we would first like to commend you on initiating the Body Mass Index (BMI) Study, to be held in schools next year. As a national child and youth health charity, we are encouraged that you have made this a priority to invest in the health of children as they truly are our future. While this study is a valuable resource that identified one measurement of the status of Toronto children’s health, there are some issues that have been identified by our Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group experts that we would like to bring to your attention.

Windsor Sandbox and International Children’s Games a Success!

The Sandbox Project travelled to Windsor Ontario last week to participate in the 2013 International Children’s Games

In an effort to raise awareness of the importance and power of collaboration in tackling child and youth health issues, The Sandbox Project is brought its signature event, “The World’s Largest Sandbox” to The International Children’s Games on August 16th! While The World’s Largest Sandbox  is held annually in Ottawa each June to raise the awareness of child and youth health issues with public officials, this event focused on our not-for-profit partners and families from the Windsor-Essex community. Joining The Sandbox Project in the Sandbox was AllerGen NCE, Play Safe and Parachute – three of our great partners!

The 2013 World’s Largest Sandbox Event in Ottawa

Friends and valued partners of The Sandbox Project: The Sandbox Project works to break down barriers and silos to bring people together and make Canada the healthiest place in the world for children and youth to grow up. In this spirit, we are having an awareness event for The Sandbox Project and child and youth […]

National Post: New concept of physical literacy has parents wondering if they need to teach their kids how to play now, too

National Post’s Sarah Boesveld writes about parents and physical literacy

Sara Smeaton used to write notes to excuse herself from gym class — and she got her mother to write them too. A dancer, gymnast and swimmer as a kid, she ditched the pool at age 10 after she was put in a lonely synchronized swimming class.

“You can’t synchronize swim by yourself without feeling like a huge loser,” says the Toronto mother of two. That was the “turning point” — the moment she decided she was just not “sporty.” A sedentary adolescence took hold.

The Sandbox Project’s Letter to Honourable Deb Matthews

The Sandbox Project’s Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group responds to the No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy

Dear Honorable Minister, 

On behalf of The Sandbox Project, we would first like to commend you on forming the Ontario Healthy Kids Panel to address a very important issue to all Canadians including Ontario: kid’s health. As a national child and youth health charity we are encouraged that you have made this a priority to invest in the health of children as they truly are our future. While this report is a valuable resource that identified the status of Ontario children’s health, there are some issues that have been identified by our Growing Healthy Bodies Working Group experts that we would like to bring to your attention.

The Globe and Mail: Canada is a laggard on children’s health. We need to do better – The Sandbox Project

The Globe and Mail’s André Picard writes about Canada’s ranking when it comes to kids’ health and The Sandbox Project

With the desk-banging, heckling and mock outrage that passes for debate in Question Period, the ham-fisted attempts to steal from the cookie jar that is the public treasury and the almost laughable denials of the obvious, the antics of Parliamentarians can, at times, seem childish.

So it is nice to see that someone has thought it fit to set up a big sandbox near Parliament Hill – complete with pails and shovels – and invite MPs and Senators alike to come play.

The “world’s biggest sandbox” (as it is billed) is not designed to mock the foibles of elected officials but rather to engage them, to remind them that, when it comes to kids’ health, Canada can do a lot better.

The Sandbox Project Spring 2013 Update

The Sandbox Project Spring 2013 News and Updates

Read more for the latest on The Sandbox Project’s recent activities and information on partner organizations.

The Sandbox Project calls for support for the CHILD Study

The Sandbox Project’s Environment Working Group writes a letter to encourage the continuation of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study

Dear Honorable Minister,

On behalf of The Sandbox Project, we wish to draw your attention to, and encourage your support for, the continuation of the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, an internationally recognized, longitudinal population-based birth cohort investigating the origins of chronic childhood illnesses.   The CHILD Study represents a key tool for understanding the impact of the environment on children’s health, and the epidemic of asthma, allergy and many other chronic diseases of later childhood and adulthood in Canada. The mission of The Sandbox Project is to make Canada the healthiest place on earth for kids to grow up – what can be learned from the CHILD Study is critical if we hope to succeed.