Prevention Policies Directory

The purpose of this Joint Use Agreement is to provide a framework by which school buildings and grounds controlled by the Yukon and selected public facilities controlled by the City can be used by the community for recreation, sport, and other purposes.

This policy designates that residual funds received from any sale of a surplus school site will be disbursed to: retire outstanding debts; acquire required neighbourhood school land and/or park land including environmentally sensitive natural areas; develop parks to the Parks and Recreation Department minimum level of service; and develop parks to shared level of service, based on assessed program needs.

The Town of Conception Bay South adopted this policy to set criteria for Council donations for an annual donation program whereby sports/cultural/environmental organizations, groups, clubs or schools can apply to obtain funding.

Section 6 of this regulation stated that boards of education must develop policies around the services they were prepared to make available to home-school learners, including programs of athletics and amateur sport.

Section 6 of this repealed regulation stated that boards of education must develop policies around the services they were prepared to make available to home-school learners, including programs of athletics and amateur sport.

This bylaw defines permitted uses for various zones within the City of Iqaluit including, but not limited to, recreation facilities, drinking establishments, parks and water treatment. 

This policy provides safety standards for curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular physical activities. The Department of Education promotes and supports the participation of students in a variety of physical activities and believes that a positive introduction to a diversity of physical activities will increase the likelihood of New Brunswickers adopting active lifestyles in youth and for life.

This regulation states that the expected results that the Minister of Healthy Living and Sport is to achieve for the purposes of section 5 (3) of the Act are as follows: (a) initiate and monitor the implementation of an ActNow BC Action Plan; (b) with input from other ministries, monitor and support the evaluation of ministry-led initiatives aimed at ActNow BC targets; (c) manage a public awareness campaign for ActNow BC and its message of choosing an active and healthy lifestyle; (d) facilitate partnerships with the broader public sector, including schools, health authorities, colleges and universities, and with persons in the private sector in order to achieve ActNow BC goals; (e) report on the results referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) to the Government Caucus Committee on Social Development.

This law states that the Minister shall devise policies relating to the fields within his competence and propose them to the Government, with a view to, in particular, promoting recreation and sports and contributing to raising the level of participation in recreation and sports activities for the population.

This bylaw prohibits the application of pesticides on public properties (e.g. school, licensed day care center, park, playground, licensed senior citizens’ nursing homes, university, college, or hospital).

This policy supports a drug and alcohol-free school environment that provides: the best possible learning environment; efforts to prevent and intervene in substance abuse among students, which includes the development and delivery of educational resources, the promotion of prevention programs and the implementation of school- and community-based efforts aimed at supporting students known to abuse or who have abused alcohol or illegal substances; and the prohibition of the use or possession of alcohol or other illegal substances on school property or during school-authorized trips or activities.

The Act enables the Minister to promote the development of students’ basic skills, including, among others, the physical development and personal health and fitness of students.

This Act has implications for the initiative Athletic Development through Sport Pathways in Education, since it empowers school boards to make local decisions based on student needs (e.g., create schools), increases parent and community say in school, and enables changes to school calendar (extended day, year round schooling, adjusted timelines).

This Act permits a school board to enter into an agreement with another board, a non‑profit organization or a municipality concerning the promotion and development of recreation and community services.

This regulation states that student services for which programs are to be established under the Education Act (R.S.Q., c. I-13.3) should include the promotion and prevention services designed to provide the students with an environment involving healthy habits and skills that are beneficial to their health and well-being. Physical Education is also listed as compulsory in elementary and high school. 

This law states that the Minister shall determine the physical plant standards for a safe and healthy school facility. It allows the Minister to enter into agreements to constructor operate school property for educational, cultural and recreational use by the community. 

This regulation allows for municipalities to form agreements to provide for municipal capital facilities (such as recreation centers) and allows school boards in agreements that provide for school capital facilities to exempt the land with those facilities from taxes.

The purpose of this Act is to increase the protection of the health of children against the diseases that are designated diseases under this Act. It allows the Lieutenant Governor to make regulations regarding immunizations which include, but are not limited to: prescribing programs of immunization in respect of designated diseases, including specifying immunizing agents and the number and timing of dosages of immunizing agents; and requiring and governing reports by persons who operate schools to medical officers of health in respect of records and documentation related to the immunization of children applying for admission to the schools and pupils and former pupils in the schools. Designated diseases are defined as Meningococcal disease, Pertussis and Varicella.

This regulation outlines requirements for the record of immunization for school pupils in the province of Ontario. Table 1 in this regulations contains the program of immunization for school pupils in Ontario.

Under the Act, the Minister of Education is responsible for post-secondary education. The Act provides the Minister with the authority to establish a board of governors for the college. The board is responsible for recommending priorities for programs and courses and college admission requirements to the Minister, and may allocate resources for recreational, athletic or sports programs at the college.

This Act establishes the only public community college in the Northwest Territories. Under the Act, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment is responsible for post-secondary education. This Act provides the Minister with the authority to establish a board of governors for the college. The board is responsible for recommending priorities for programs and courses and college admission requirements to the Minister, and may allocate resources for recreational, athletic or sports programs at the college.

This Act provides guidelines for municipal planning by enabling municipalities councils to ask for a general plan describing the manner in which the development or redevelopment of a municipality may best be organized and carried out, having regard to considerations of orderliness, economy and convenience. A general plan must include proposals relating to the provision of public roadways, services, public buildings, schools, parks and recreation areas and the reservation of land for these and other public and community purposes.

This regulation requires that when a site is being selected for a new school building a the adequacy of a level play area must be considered.

This policy describes a framework for decision-making around the construction of special use extension to schools provided there is a need for the addition (e.g., there is no existing recreation facility built or planned in the neighbourhood).