North Vancouver

Our Vision:

Our Vision is to be a physically literate, active, and inclusive community.

Our Mission is to:

• To be able to create connections between various stakeholders in each community who can help provide information, share resources and direction on physical literacy.
• Educate and promote physical literacy for all ages to encourage active for life.
• Assist teachers, coaches and instructors in delivering quality programming for our young and old.
• Engage the communities to learn about physical literacy and the impact and benefits of mental and physical health.
• To encourage families to be more active and explore the communities they live in.

Example of milestones:

Sport
• Co-host a Sport Summit (Shipyards area or similar location; registration through the Sport Council)
• Update and modernize the Sport Council
• Open up 'Community Day' for North Van families (e.g. hosted at Table Tennis Club)
• Offer a month of Table Tennis for all (or a playday)
• Initiatives through North Van football and North Van Floorball

Recreation
• Offer S4L/PL courses to staff, and extend to other sectors
• In-house PL training for Rec staff
• 'Summer Awesome' event to showcase PL stuff this summer

Health
• Host joint PL101 session...to build PL awareness through activity
• Revive the 'Move More North Shore' initiative
• Create PL circuit(s) in North Van (including stencils in schools and rec centres)
• Focus on inclusivity and accessibility activities
• Provide a list of PL-related books to the Chronic Disease team

Education
• More activities like the Feb 7th event
• Activate at the 'Summer Awesome' event
• PL training for teachers

Municipality and City Planning
• Pursue 'Healthiest Small City' initiative (create a milestone and a policy)
• Use local spaces more wisely (e.g. improved activation of Shipyards space)
• Equipment and outdoor play parks (talk to Parks and Rec