Community Partners

Active Living Alliance

The Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD) promotes, supports and enables Canadians with disabilities to lead active, healthy lives. It provides nationally coordinated leadership, support, encouragement, promotion and information that facilitates healthy, active living opportunities for Canadians of all abilities across all settings and environments.

Canadian Paralympic Committee

The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) is a non-profit, charitable, private organization that is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The CPC delivers programs that strengthen the Paralympic Movement in Canada, including sending Canadian teams to the Paralympic Games. The CPC empowers persons with physical disabilities, through sport, at all levels.

Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario

The Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) Ontario's mission is to assist persons with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and other physical disabilities to achieve independence, self-reliance and full community participation. CPA Ontario has offices across the province that provide consistent, holistic, individualized and quality assured services in the core areas of Peer Support, Community Services, Employment Services, Advocacy, Information Services and Attendant Services.

Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association

The Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association (CWSA) is a national sport organization representing wheelchair athletes, whose mission is to promote excellence and develop opportunities for Canadians in wheelchair sport. In addition to its role as a developer of elite athletes, CWSA is a national and international voice for Canadian wheelchair athletes. CWSA is currently expanding the Bridging the Gap, Getting Physically Active program across Canada. Bridging the Gap is a structured Awareness, Recruitment, and Development program, which encourages individuals with physical disabilities to get physically active.

Fusion Fitness

Fusion Fitness serves individuals in the Toronto community living with various disabilities or health risks. Their mission is to "decrease barriers and increase awareness and inclusion through fitness, recreation, and sport." Fusion Fitness provides in-home fitness training for people of all ages and abilities.

Kingston Revved Up

Kingston Revved Up is an assisted exercise program for adults living in the Kingston community with mobility impairment. Exercise sessions occur twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at St Mary's of the Lake Hospital in Kingston. Exercise plans are tailored to each participant by certified personal trainers who have experience working with persons living with mobility impairment. Participants are paired up with a volunteer who directs the work-out, gives performance tips and provides motivation. Volunteers are Queen's University Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy students, as well as interested community members.

MacWheelers Exercise Program

The MacWheelers Exercise Program provides individualized exercise prescriptions for people with spinal cord injury living in the Hamilton community. MacWheelers takes place in the Centre for Health Promotion and Rehabilitation at McMaster University, a 5600 sq.ft. facility dedicated to exercise rehabilitation for special populations. This state-of-the-art fitness center houses specialized exercise training equipment for people in wheelchairs, including accessible multi-station resistance training equipment, two body-weight support treadmills and a robotic gait orthosis.

Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion

The Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion helps Ontarians lead healthier lives by delivering programs that promote healthy choices and healthy lifestyles. People with disabilities have been identified as a "target audience" in greatest need of strategic efforts. The Ministry seeks to increase physical activity through strategies such as increasing capacity for physical activity, removing barriers, physical activity promotion and education, and increasing government leadership. To do this the Ministry works closely with partners, stakeholders and all levels of government.

Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation

The mission of the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) is "to prevent the incidence and prevalence of neurotrauma and to improve the quality of life for those living with these injuries." ONF funds Ontario-based, neurotrauma health research focused on evidence-based best practices that can move research to practice, as knowledge mobilization is a key mandate of the ONF.

Ontario Rehabilitation Research Advisory Network

The mission of the Ontario Rehabilitation Research Advisory Network (ORRAN) is to promote and advance rehabilitation research in Ontario. This is done through support and development of collaborative research, increasing research funding and capacity, increasing knowledge mobilization, and advising the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care on policy, knowledge mobilization, and funding.

Ontario Wheelchair Sports Association

Ontario Wheelchair Sports Association (OWSA) is dedicated to the development and promotion of athlete-centred amateur wheelchair sport programs in Ontario. OWSA has expanded to include the Bridging the Gap - Getting Physically Active (BTG) program, designed to introduce wheelchair sport and recreation opportunities for people with physical disabilities. BTG works to decrease the gap between rehabilitation and community integration by working in collaboration with rehabilitation centres across Ontario. BTG aims to help individuals with disabilities become re-integrated into the community and regain motivation, confidence and independence through physical activity. The introductory programs offered provide a necessary peer support network for people with disabilities to engage in wheelchair sports and lead a healthy active lifestyle.

ParaSport Ontario

The Mission of ParaSport Ontario is to support the development and promotion of the Paralympic movement in Ontario. We run an established multi-sport games program, which features Ontario ParaSport Summer and Winter Games that are hosted by communities across the province. We also actively recruit for and create awareness of ParaSports through our Ready Willing and Able introductory sport program which brings out sporting equipment and Athlete Ambassadors to organizations such as hospitals and schools so individuals can find out more about ParaSport opportunities.

ParticipACTION

ParticipACTION is the national voice for physical activity and sport participation in Canada. Originally established in 1971, ParticipACTION was relaunched in 2007 to help address the looming inactivity and obesity crisis that faces Canada. As a national not-for-profit organization solely dedicated to inspiring and supporting active and healthy living for Canadians, it will work with its partners, which include sport, physical activity, recreation organizations, government and corporate sponsors, to inspire and support Canadians to move more. ParticipACTION is generously supported by Sport Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Spinal Cord Injury Solutions Network

The Spinal Cord Injury Solutions Network is a Canada-wide collaboration of people with spinal cord injuries (SCI), researchers and service providers, along with their respective organizations, all committed to addressing priority needs and generating solutions for Canadians with SCI. Together, they strive to minimize disability and maximize the quality of life of people with SCI as well as enhance health, social and economic outcomes through seamless coordination among the many organizations that provide services to people with SCI.

Thomson, Rogers

Thomson, Rogers is the largest personal injury law firm and home to the best personal injury lawyers in Ontario. Thomson Rogers specializes in representing people who have been injured in car accidents, have disability, medical malpractice, statutory accident benefits (SABS) and other insurance related claims. The lawyers at Thomson Rogers have the well deserved reputation for taking on the most complex and challenging personal injury cases and achieving maximum results. They have extensive trial experience including representing clients at the Supreme Court of Canada. The partners and associates are leaders of the major legal associations, including the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. The lawyers and staff are also actively involved in the community, including the Canadian Paraplegic Association, Ontario Brain Injury Association, and the Disabled Sailing Association. Thomson, Rogers Holiday Wish Fund supports various head injury and spinal cord associations by helping individual families in need.