by Christine Alden | Dec 1, 2020 | News, Outdoor Play Strategy
The Lawson Foundation’s Outdoor Play Strategy is an integral part of our overall strategic direction. It is driving our comprehensive approach to exploring how outdoor play supports the healthy development of children and youth in communities across Canada. Our...
by Amanda Mayer | Jul 13, 2020 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
Go outside and play! Opportunities for outdoor play critical for children during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic Lawson Foundation shares recommendations for policy makers, early learning and child care, and post secondary early childhood education programs to...
by Karen Shelstad | Jun 22, 2020 | Diabetes, Healthy Active Children, News, Truth & Reconciliation
Putting community knowledge and leadership at the centre of a challenge – that’s what we’re doing in a unique collaboration with local Indigenous communities, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and Indigenous Services Canada’s First Nations...
by Christine Alden | May 21, 2019 | Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
The Lawson Foundation is pleased to release Advancing Outdoor Play and Early Childhood Education: A Discussion Paper which is a synthesis of a multi-sector symposium convened in October 2018. The discussion paper shares the major themes of the Symposium and proposes...
by Lawson Foundation | Mar 18, 2019 | Guest Blog Series, Healthy Active Children, News, Outdoor Play Strategy
In October 2018, the Lawson Foundation invited Henry Mathias, Head of Professional Practice and Standards with the Care Inspectorate in Scotland to give the keynote address at its Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium. Henry shared Scotland’s...
by Dr. Ananya Banerjee | Dec 14, 2018 | Diabetes, Guest Blog Series, Healthy Active Children, News
When 14-year old Kiran Grewal joined the South Asian Adolescent Diabetes Awareness Program (SAADAP), she did it because diabetes runs in her family. Her father, her aunt (on her dad’s side) and both of her grandmothers have type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and her little...
