About Play Safe
Play Safe is a registered program of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and was developed from an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant, in collaboration with Lakehead University and the Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund, to better understand what helps and hinders injury prevention in sport and recreation. Since 2010, Play Safe has been working with organizations from across the sectors of sport, health, recreation and education to address gaps and opportunities in injury prevention. From this beginning, Play Safe will continue to drive for healthy participation in physical activity across the lifespan.
Mission: To support the safe delivery of physical activity for both performance and health across the lifespan.
Mission: To support the safe delivery of physical activity for both performance and health across the lifespan.
Objectives:
- Connection - provide the platform for individuals and organizations to come together as a collaborative community to create change.
- Capacity - develop and sustain this community of sport and recreation volunteers and leaders, officials, teachers, participants, healthcare providers and researchers using education, research, empowerment, and training.
- Change - shift the injury paradigm in sport and physical activities by developing multiple strategies including injury data collection a, social, environmental change, awareness raising, education, and behaviour change to decrease injury incidence and severity.
Key Assumptions:
- One size does not fit all - organizations vary in their ability to undertake new projects based on human, financial and cultural factors.
- It’s better to prevent first - preventing the first injury is more manageable and cost-effective than return to play and activities of daily living.
- Efforts must be participant-centred - participation occurs concurrently in different "spheres" yet the participant remains constant