Toronto 2010 PHE Conference

About the Conference

What is the National Conference, and who attends?

The National Conference provides an opportunity for delegates to network with colleagues and increase their knowledge and skills to foster healthy active living for children and youth in the school community.

Delegates are people involved with the health, physical activity and education needs of children and youth including educators, public health, administrators, recreation leaders, physical education specialists and generalists who want more information regarding physical education.

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To download the agenda for this year's conference, please click here .

These organizations and many more will be featured in our Exhibitor Marketplace.

Action Schools! BC and Premier’s Sport Awards Program:
Action Schools! BC is a best practices model designed to assist schools in creating individualized action plans to promote healthy living. The Premier’s Sports Awards Program provides sport skill development resources for teachers, coaches and instructors teaching children their basic sport skills.

MOTIVATE Canada:
Motivate Canada is a Canadian charitable organization that specializes in improving the lives of young people by fostering civic engagement, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion and leadership among youth using techniques from sport, physical education and community driven development.

Dairy Farmers of Ontario:
The Dairy Farmers of Ontario provides a variety of FREE educational resources for students and teachers in addition to supporting the Elementary School Milk Program and other school-based initiatives.

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Who we are:

Since 1921, Ophea has been working to support the health and learning of children and youth in Ontario. Ophea is a not-for-profit organization led by the vision that all kids value, participate in, and make a lifelong commitment to healthy active living.

Ophea works in partnership with school boards, public health, government, non-government organizations, and private sector organizations to develop groundbreaking programs and services that support healthy active schools and communities.

For more information, visit www.ophea.net

Physical and Health Education Canada is a national, charitable voluntary-sector organization whose primary concern is to influence the healthy development of children and youth by advocating for quality, school-based physical and health education. PHE Canada's vision is "All Canadian children and youth living physically active and healthy lives" and as such advocates and educates for quality physical and health education programs within supportive school and community environments.

For more information, visit www.phecanada.ca.

To see the program from the Ophea Kids' Health Conference held in Alliston, ON in October 2009, please CLICK HERE.

To see the program from the "Moving Mountains" National Physical & Health Education Conference held in Banff, AB in April 2009, please CLICK HERE.