Our Vision

A healthy community where people are committed to physical, social and mental well-being.

• Project Goals

  • Change physical activity behavior through targeted communications and increased awareness.
  • Deliver creative, safe, inclusive and effective physical activity and programs.
  • Integrate and coordinate expertise across sectors to create cross-sectoral solutions.
  • Develop sustainable programs to have ongoing impact in the community.
  • Improve competence, confidence and motivation of 33,000 community members to be physically active for life.

• A physically literate community is:

  • A community where parents, teachers, coaches and practitioners are informed and supported.
  • A community where seniors are vibrant and active.
  • A community where children feel healthy, happy and can thrive

• How will we integrate physical literacy into South Surrey and White Rock?

  Phase 1: Educate, facilitating an understanding and awareness of physical literacy.
  Phase 2: Train, delivering physical literacy-enriched programs.
  Phase 3: Mentor, establishing sustainable physical literacy for our community.

• Physical Literacy Project with Alex House Childcare

  Alex House is a large childcare & afterschool care provider, operating 900+ childcare spaces, 16 centers, 95+ staff (and growing). An embedded physical literacy program is operating throughout Alex House childcare programs: three Alex House early childcare educators have taken on Physical Literacy lead roles to further educate, mentor, and support other staff with integrating quality physical literacy programming. Education and training are provided by Sport for Life, with additional education supported by Appetite to Play workshops and e-learning courses.

• Physical Literacy in Schools

  Our Physical Literacy (PL) mentorship program is focused on engaging local elementary schools, offering physical literacy capacity-building to teachers, conducting fundamental movement skill assessments with students, and providing PL programming throughout an entire school day. This program also provides PL presentations to staff, teachers, and parents to increase awareness and knowledge around the importance of developing physical literacy to improve health, impact learning and support positive well-being.

The Move for Life project has established an engaging partner table of community leaders from Health, Recreation, Sport, and Education. Partners are committed to collaborating on cross-sectoral solutions to increase physical activity and support community members in being active across the lifespan.