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Supporting Diversity: Everyone Wins – Community Sporting Clubs (Vic Health, Australia)
The toolkit specifically aims to help clubs increase the involvement of women and girls, Aboriginal people and people from culturally diverse communities.
Creating Inclusive Environments for Trans Participants in Canadian Sport
This document outlines the Expert Working Group’s policy and practice recommendations, and is being made available to Canadian sport organizations to help in their work towards making their sport more inclusive.
Playing for team motherhood: Returning to team sport after childbirth
Motherhood and a decrease in physical activity participation often go hand in hand. Specifically, early motherhood is a time when women have some of their lowest rates of sport participation.
Questions to help leaders develop a psychologically safe organizational culture
Researchers Kelloway and Barling have said that virtually every outcome variable in the field of occupational health psychology is empirically related to organizational leadership.
Understanding Psychosocial Factors and Hazards
The psychosocial factors described in Guarding Minds are elements that psychologically and/or socially impact the health, safety and well-being of employees, either positively or negatively.
Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
These whiteboard animation videos on the 13 factors in the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace will be a helpful resource for all workplaces in Ottawa. Let’s keep the conversation going about mental health. Each of the videos has a facilitator’s guide to help get the conversation started.
What is Intersectionality?
Intersectionality is a concept that can help policy makers and sport programmers understand how different types of discrimination – like racism, homophobia, and ableism – combine to prevent some women and girls from participating in sport.
Women’s Experiences of Changing in a Public Change Room
In this paper, I argue that everyday spaces such as change rooms and locker rooms are important spaces in which social understandings of the female body manifest.
She Belongs: Building Social Connection for Lasting Participation in Sport
Through positive sport experiences, girls are more likely to reap the benefits of sport participation and grow into confident and motivated leaders.
Girls and outdoor play: looking for more equality and equity
This article is an overview of the relationships between boys and girls in public space. Based on an extensive literature review and own research we look at the causes of this gender inequality as well at the possible solutions.
