Call to Action

Home
- Go outside with your kids to play for 30 minutes every day
- Support 30 minutes of unstructured outdoor play every day
- Walk or bike to school, community parks and local destinations
- Build a family garden
- Learn more about the benefits of outdoor play and active transportation
- Understand the real risks and balance the risk benefits
Community
- Invest in and support local parks, trails and natural green spaces
- Promote safe active travel to school, play spaces and community centres
- Start a conversation about children's health and safe, natural community play spaces
- Support and participate in community gardens
Early Childhood Learning Centres
- Advocate for outdoor play and learning
- Share the social, mental and physical health benefits of time spent outside
- Green outdoor play spaces
- Integrate at least 90 minutes of play and learning outside every day
Schools
- Promote active outdoor learning
- Invest in active and healthy fundraisers
- Support natural, inspiring play and learning spaces
- Learn more about active transportation to school initiatives
Health Practitioners
- Prescribe outdoor physical activity
- Invest in preventative community programming
- Support healthy community initiatives
- Talk more about the Social Determinants of Health and the need for supportive, healthy environments
- Learn more about the links between the natural environment and our health
Politicians
- Invest in prevention
- Invest in 'building healthy community'
- Support community based initiatives and healthy, natural and built environment infrastructure
- Talk more about the Social Determinants of Health and the need for supportive, healthy environments
- Learn more about the links between the natural environment and our health






