HIGH FIVE® Resources
HIGH FIVE® offers a wide range of resources and training that can be applied to children's recreation and sport.
Resources for Sports:
The Coach Reflections Workbook - This interactive workbook is designed for coaches at any level to help develop happy, skilled and confident athletes. It includes 10 Reflections Exercises that help identify your coaching strengths and goals, practice planner, goal setting charts for athletes, Certificates of Achievement and lots of inspirational messages. Coach Reflections helps coaches keep winning in perspective, motivate athletes and communicate effectively with parents and athletes.
Sport Action Pack - This resource is specifically designed for sport organizations. It is jammed with easy-to-read handouts for parents, coaches, athletes and officials. The handouts focus on safety, making sport fun, understanding young athletes and other important topics related to children and sport.
Resources for Parents:
Reviewing Programs Together - This child-focused resource is designed to help parents and guardians give feedback on their child's programs. It includes an easy-to-use program check-list to help parents and guardians determine if the program their child is participating in supports healthy child development, and a questionnaire with starter questions to help them talk to their child about his or her experiences in a program.
Parent Checklist - These FREE postcard-style are designed to help parents understand what to look for when choosing a recreation or sport program for their child. The cards include a checklist of HIGH FIVE® quality indicators.
To order HIGH FIVE® resource materials, please call 780-415-1745 or email highfive@arpaonline.ca.
Available Workshops
Training and Development is one of the four modules of the HIGH FIVE® Framework. HIGH FIVE® offers the following extensive menu of training sessions to support staff and volunteer development:
100 Principles of Healthy Child Development (PHCD)
102 Principles in Practice
200 Using the HIGH FIVE® QUEST (QUEST 2)
210 Reviewing Best Practices (QUEST 1)
300 HIGH FIVE® Sport
400 Becoming a HIGH FIVE® Trainer
430 HIGH FIVE® Sport Trainer
600 Accreditation Planning Workshop
Quest Evaluation Tools
HIGH FIVE® has developed a unique set of scanning tools, supported with training, to help organizations assess and improve the quality of children's programs.
QUEST 1 Tool: Reviewing Best Practices
QUEST 1 is designed to assist in reviewing policies and procedures related to safety, staff/volunteer relations, risk management and other important areas. It examines the extent of organizational awareness, documentation and compliance to existing policies and procedures.
QUEST 2 Tool: Observing the Child's Experience
QUEST 2 is an observation tool that measures the quality of interactions between children and the program environment. A complete Program Assessment can be done in just 40 minutes! Programs that receive a high score in the five areas evaluated through QUEST 2, support the healthy development of children.
The HIGH FIVE(R) Guide to Best Practices
This comprehensive tool is linked directly to the quality indicators in the QUEST 1 and QUEST 2 tools. It includes sample policies and procedures, formatting suggestions and training implications to enable departments to increase quality by strengthening the directional focus of the department.
Leader Appraisal Tool
This tool is aligned with the quality indicators in QUEST 2 and enables supervisors to provide staff with specific feedback related to healthy child development supports. Using this tool in conjunction with the QUEST 2 enables staff to understand the connections that are needed to ensure that a child's experience, while in their care, is a healthy one.
Program Planning Pad
These 25-sheet pads guide leaders through programming choices that support healthy child development. Each page has space for planning activities bordered by 16 questions that direct child-centred programming choices.
The Alberta Recreation and Parks Association (ARPA) is hosting a series of workshops in January and February 2012.
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Workshop |
Date & Location |
Cost |
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Session 100
Principles of Healthy Child Development
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January 19, 2012
Calgary, Alberta
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$32 |
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Session 200
QUEST 2
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January 20, 2012
Calgary, Alberta
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$76 |
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Session 400
Becoming a HIGH FIVE® Trainer
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February 2012
Location TBD
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$629+GST |
Register for HIGH FIVE® Workshops
