From February 16 – March 3, the Inspiring Healthy Futures (#WeCANforKids) initiative will be holding eight focused planning sessions (called “Strategy Hives”) around the key themes. In each, we will be developing an agenda for what we can do right now as well as priorities for long term planning. Each Hive will build on the previous ones, leaving us with a robust, multi-faceted plan we can begin right away.
Each session will be a dynamic, interactive experience, focusing both on mobilizing communities to change policy and transform knowledge into action to support kids and youth through this crisis, and creating the new research, collaborations and structures that will set them up for a thriving future.
Strategy Hive #6 Inspiring Healthy Futures: Learning, belonging and play
As so many families have lost access to school and childcare during the pandemic, we have a renewed realization about how profoundly these education systems are critical hubs for learning, development and support. At the same time, we have a deep recognition about what children and youth are losing without healthy, safe environments and outdoor spaces for active play and socialization.
In this Strategy Hive, we will explore what the pandemic has underlined about the essential nature of schools and community spaces as hubs and how can we build recovery plans that prioritize meaningful learning, outdoor play, recreation and belonging.
*The session will be conducted in English. Captioning will be available.
