Youth in Sport and Recreation
The Youth unit facilitates opportunities for young people state-wide to participate in leadership programs.
It also provides advice on youth issues for sporting clubs, State Sporting Associations, schools and other key community and government organisations involved in the delivery of sport and recreation.
A comprehensive overview of the careers and courses available in Western Australia.
The Sport and Recreation Career Development Program aims to equip participants with a better understanding of the sport and recreation industry, increased leadership skills and improved industry networks.
The Department of Sport and Recreation is investing significant funding into its emerging leaders through The Western Australian Sport and Recreation Emerging Leaders Program.
Active Kids School Holiday Calendar
If you are looking for fun activities for the kids these holidays, you have come to the right place.
We have listings of activities, events, clinics, camps and much more. You can search the list by activity or by simply entering your postcode to discover all the events in your area.
So tell your friends, parents, grandparents, local sporting clubs and teams about this calendar and let's get active!
Holiday sport and recreation activity providers can submit program information online at no cost. Click here to register your program for the calendar
Play by the Rules provides information and online learning about how to prevent and deal with discrimination, harassment and child abuse for the sport and recreation industry.
Youth initiatives
The Junior Sport Framework (JSF) is a set of guidelines, checklists and templates for national sporting organisations to develop their own sport specific junior sport policies considering issues at national, state and local levels.
The Department of Sport and Recreation conducted a Junior Sport and Education Forum with representatives from State Sporting Associations, schools and other key industry bodies to discuss access to schools by sporting organisations and effective implementation of programs.
The Schools Network (SN) supports schools that are keen to deliver better sport and physical activity opportunities to their staff and students.
Sportsfun is a youth leadership program that develops coaching and officiating in young leaders who in turn provide fun instruction of modified sports to younger participants.
Sportsfun Across Generations (SAG) is an initiative that involves senior members of the community mentoring primary school students in physical education classes.
Passport into schools
Suggested strategies and best practice examples for initiating and maintaining partnerships between sports and schools.
How to liaise with the relevant stakeholders.
Making your club attractive to youth.
Turning junior members into long term members.
Making your club and activities safe for everyone.
Linking sport and recreations clubs with schools.
The changing needs of growing bodies and minds.
Important tips for junior coaches.
Pathways for the development of junior members.
How to meet your duty of care responsibilities.
Strategies to strengthen youth sports and recreation programs.
The Lab is an online library of research on education and youth issues.
Results from a massive survey of Change4Life families show that almost three quarters (72 per cent) of their children are not getting 60 minutes of daily activity outside of school.
This paper establishes national and provincial rates of Canadian active school transport as well as identifies the major barriers.
Understand the impact of the British Government’s play investment on children and parents satisfaction and use of play spaces, as well as wider outcomes linked to children’s health and well-being, and impacts on local communities.
The results are available from a new study in Norwegian childrens football published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
As a journalist, coach and sports parent, Mark Hyman has been immersed in the culture of youth sports.
Play by the Rules website
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