Contacts:
Alberta 
Lesley McEwan
SHAPE — Safe Healthy Active People Everywhere
P.O. Box 69102
13040 — 137 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T6V 1G7
Tel: (780) 406-8530
Fax: (780) 406-8564
website: http://www.shapeab.com
email: [email protected]
British Columbia
HASTe — Hub for Active School Travel
901-1136 Pacific St.
Vancouver, BC V6E 1T4
Tel: 604.347.7704
Website: www.hastebc.org
Email: [email protected]
DASH BC — The Directorate of Agencies for School Health
1055- 409 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2
Tel: (604) 681 0600
website: www.dashbc.ca
email: [email protected]
Register Here: www.dashbc.ca
Manitoba
Green Action Centre
3rd Floor — 303 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2B4
Tel: (204) 925-3774
Fax: (204) 942-4207
website: http://www.greenactioncentre.ca
email: [email protected]
Nova Scotia
Ecology Action Centre
2705 Fern Lane
Halifax, NS B3K 4L3
Tel: (902) 442-5055
Fax: (902) 405-3716
website: http://www.saferoutesns.ca
email: [email protected]
Ontario
Green Communities Canada
57 Douglas Ave.
Toronto, ON M5M 1G4
Tel: (416) 488-7263
Fax: (416) 488-2296
website: http://www.saferoutestoschool.ca
email: [email protected]
Quebec
Vélo Québec
1251, rue Rachel est
Montreal, QC H2J 2J9
Tel: (514) 521-8356 x 347
1-(800)-567-8356
Fax: (514) 521-5711
website: http://www.velo.qc.ca/monecole/
email: [email protected]
Yukon Territory
Recreation and Parks Association of the Yukon
c/o 4061 – 4th Avenue
Whitehorse, Yukon
CANADA Y1A 1H1
Tel: (867) 668-3010
website: http://www.rpay.org
email: [email protected]
Summary:
In early 2012, Green Communities’ Canada Walks concluded a pan-Canadian School Travel Planning project that reached over 120 schools across the nation with the help of a long list of provincial and territorial partners. The project was designed to gauge the state of children’s mobility, health and happiness before and after School Travel Planning interventions took place. Canada Walks collected over 18,500 full-length family surveys and recorded more than 450,000 student school trips that help to tell the current story of active school travel in Canada.
Please see the executive summary and an overview video posted at: www.saferoutestoschool.ca/blog/clasp-results-2012.
This project was made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada, through the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer; and from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Alberta
Alberta celebrates International Walk to School days annually and has been encouraging students to walk or bike to school since 2001. Active & Safe Routes to School programs in Alberta is coordinated by SHAPE (Safe Healthy Active People Everywhere).
Coordinator is Bev Esslinger and you can contact us or register for IWALK through our website at www.shapeab.com.
British Columbia
British Columbia started in 1998 by promoting National Walk a Child to School Day in a few schools in BC. Official IWALK registrations began with the Way to Go! program in 2000, where the organization later transformed in to what is now HASTe BC (Hub for Active School Travel).
In the past few year HASTe has been partnering with DASH BC (The Directorate of Agencies for School Health) to offer combined resources, incentives and support for IWALK schools in BC.
HASTe resources for IWALK and our Active & Safe Routes to School partnership can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.hastebc.org/resources/iwalk-international-walk-school-week
Register your school for IWALK week in BC through DASH at www.dashbc.ca
Manitoba
The Active and Safe Routes to School Program (ASRTS) in Manitoba is a program of Green Action Centre
that encourages the use of active transportation for health, a clean environment and safe community.
Over the years, ASRTS has done School Travel Planning with many schools across the province to bring
together multiple community stakeholders to identify and resolve barriers around walking and biking
to school. The program has also held many community mapping projects in school divisions and, in
2013, ASRTS developed a traffic counting app, CounterPoint, that continues to grow to help schools and
divisions really see the impacts of travel over time in their community.
Contact: Lea G, Event Coordinator
Active & Safe Routes to School Manitoba, Green Action Centre
[email protected]
204.925.3774
Nova Scotia
Active & Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) in Nova Scotia encourages more children, youth and their families to use active transportation — such as walking and cycling — for the environment, physical activity and traffic safety.
Active & Safe Routes to School is coordinated in Nova Scotia by the Ecology Action Centre in partnership with the Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection as part of the Active Kids Healthy Kids Initiative.
Contact us in Nova Scotia through our website at http://www.ecologyaction.ca/asrts.
Ontario
The Ontario Active & Safe Routes to School (ASRTS) initiative, www.saferoutestoschool.ca, continues to work towards longer-term sustainability. A cost-benefit study of active school travel was conducted in 2013 and will be continued through the current school year. See early results here. A series of case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of School Travel Planning is available here.
Quebec
ON THE MOVE TO SCHOOL!
Rediscover the fun of active transportation
For fitness and the environment
Kids learn to walk long before they master the alphabet. So walking or cycling to school should be child’s play! And should be encouraged: kids who walk or bike to school get used to exercising every day. Yet less than four out of ten students in Greater Montreal rely on active transportation—walking, cycling or in-line skating—to get to school.
To help reverse the trend toward greater inactivity among children in Quebec and to reduce the use of the family car as a school shuttle, Vélo Québec launched the “On the move to school!” program in October 2005.
Started as a pilot project in eight schools, the program is now active in many regions of Quebec. By 2015, “On the move to school” will be deployed across the province of Quebec.
Whether or not your school is participating in the program, we encourage you to participate in the International Walk to School Month, and also, browse through our website, which provides tools designed to get things moving at school.
We are well aware that changing habits takes effort, but encouraging active transportation is an essential effort that will benefit you and your family. And you can count on having some fun too!
Current contact person: Annick St-Denis, Active Transportation Director
Learn more at www.velo.qc.ca/monecole
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