ParticipAction

Question 1

What is the ParticipAction Report card?

Answer 1

Most comprehensive assessment of child and youth physical activity in Canada
Letter grades to 14 different indicators

Question 2

How are we doing in terms of PA?

Answer 2

D+
only 39% of youth met the guidelines

Question 3

What are the recommendations given for PA?

Answer 3

PA promotion efforts and investments should focus on reducing inequality and inequity
Funding
PA should be promoted early in life and often

Question 4

How are we doing in terms of Active Play?

Answer 4

D-
22% of youth accumulated more than 2h/day of total time engaged in indoor and outdoor unstructured play.

Question 5

What are the recommendations given for active play?

Answer 5

Outdoor and nature based play opportunities should be promoted and supported
Indoor active play for children with barriers to outdoor play and during extreme climate events should be encouraged

Question 6

How are we doing in terms of active transportation?

Answer 6

C-
43% of parents said their kids commute actively solely or in part

Question 7

What are the recommendation given for active transportation?

Answer 7

Schools should develop school travel plans that encourage children to use active modes of transport.
Parents should push their kids to walk, bike,skateboard to destinations instead of driving them

Question 8

How are we doing in terms of organized sport?

Answer 8

B
68% of kids participate in organized sport

Question 9

What are the recommendations for organized sport

Answer 9

Financial support should be in place to ensure low-income households have access
Ensure sport offerings are inclusive of the needs of kids with disabilities

Question 10

How are we doing in terms of physical education?

Answer 10

C
53% of students met the benchmarks

Question 11

What are the recommendations regarding physical education?

Answer 11

Prioritize PE and daily PA with the same respect as core subjects like math, science etc.
Increase PE frequency and enhance the curriculum to support kids movement behaviours and learning

Question 12

How are we doing in terms of sedentary behaviours?

Answer 12

D
27% of kids met the recommended guideline for screen time

Question 13

What are the recommendations for sedentary behaviours?

Answer 13

introduce legislation that promotes healthy screen use behaviours
Involve all family members in creating a family media plan
Prioritizing screen-free family time
Screen-free family meals
Replace sedentary behaviour with active play

Question 14

How are we doing in terms of sleep?

Answer 14

B-
65% of children and youth met the sleep recommendations

Question 15

What are the recommendations for sleep?

Answer 15

integrate sleep health literacy into school curricula. Improve sleep hygiene

Question 16

How are we doing in terms of community and environment?

Answer 16

B
70%

Question 17

What are the recommendations for community and environment?

Answer 17

communities should ensure that indoor recreational facilities have high-quality air filtration and purification systems and develop plans to open the facilities to people for free or at reduced cost during weather alerts.
Consider how new policies and by-laws could restrict physical activity or outdoor play