Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 88: Sports and Reconciliation (87-91)

Masters Indigenous Games – Sport Development Tour

May 31, 2019

The tour features sport clinics and multi-sport camps to help develop sport specific skills for those just starting out or wanting to try something new, tryouts, competitions and tournaments for those already at the competitive level, and an athlete identification program, which identifies athletes at partner and community sport events, who have the potential to represent Team Ontario at the upcoming 2020 NAIG in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A major component of this model are the community partnerships ISWO is developing and strengthening, to achieve more with less. Working with existing sport programs, community championships, events and tournaments, ISWO is able to focus on playing a supporting role by bringing in sport expertise, specialized sport development leaders, identifying and scouting athletes, helping to run and organize sports and events, and sharing information with participating youth and families about opportunities in sport, available to them. 

The Athlete Institute and Indigenous Sport & Wellness Ontario (ISWO)

ISWO announce a partnership aimed at developing basketball for the Indigenous youth of Ontario. The partnership brings together the best basketball development program in Canada and the designated Provincial/Territorial Aboriginal Sport Body (P/TASB) for Ontario, to host regional and provincial tournaments, tryouts for national and international sport events, develop passionate coaches and create player pathways, camps, clinics and programming.