Excellence in Youth Development Award

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Excellence in Youth Development Award

This award recognizes excellence in projects that focus on youth recognition and use a youth development model. The award was created during the 2003 National Youth Development through Recreation Services Symposium held in Calgary.

Award Criteria

Nominees must be current members of the Alberta Recreation & Parks Association (ARPA) and reflect the principles of youth development (youth ages 12 to 18) and recreation, and meet the following requirements:

  • The project’s focus is youth recreation.
  • The project is a partnership or involves a collaboration of organizations and agencies involved with youth.
  • One member of the partnership is an ARPA member.
  • Youth, themselves, are directly involved in the planning/decision making of the project.

Award Recipients

2022

Past Recipients

The Alberta Recreation & Parks Association would like to acknowledge the First Nations, the Métis, and all of the people across Alberta who share a history and a deep connection with this land. We dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in the spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.