ChooseWell Healthy Community Awards: Community Wellness ...
ChooseWell Healthy Community Awards: Community Wellness Leadership Award
What are the ChooseWell Healthy Community Awards?
The ChooseWell Healthy Community Awards celebrate the efforts and achievements of communities and wellness champions across Alberta in promoting healthy eating and active living and creating conditions where the healthy choice is the easy choice. The ChooseWell Healthy Community Awards recognize communities that are currently participating in the Alberta Recreation and Parks Association’s Communities ChooseWell initiative. A list of registered communities is posted at www.choosewell.arpaonline.ca.
What is the Community Wellness Leadership Award?
The Community Wellness Leadership Award recognizes the efforts of elected community leaders to champion and support community wellness, with a focus on healthy eating, active living, and social wellbeing. This award will be presented as a part of the ChooseWell Healthy Community Awards.
Purpose
The purpose of the Community Wellness Leadership Award is to promote awareness of how local government leaders can influence community wellness, recognize those who champion wellness and health and foster dialogue about approaches to building community wellness. Elected leaders have an important role to play to create community wellness. Many decisions and policies made by local governments directly and indirectly affect the health and wellbeing of community members. Local government leaders can influence the values and priorities that affect decisions, and they can be role models for healthy living, champions for healthy public policies, and directly support community-‐driven initiatives to improve wellness.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this award, the individual being nominated must be an elected official in an Alberta community that is registered for Communities ChooseWell in 2015. All municipalities, including First Nations and Métis councils, are eligible. A full list of registered communities, as well as a registration form, is available at www.arpaonline.ca/choosewell. Registration for Communities ChooseWell is free.
Other Information The Community Wellness Leadership Award will be presented at the ChooseWell Healthy Community Award Ceremony on Thursday, October 22, 2015 and/or the President`s Awards Banquet on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Alberta Recreation and Parks Association’s Annual Conference and Energize Workshop at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.
Send completed applications to:
Email: [email protected] Fax: (780) 451-‐7915
Mail: Alberta Recreation and Parks Association Attention: Communities ChooseWell 11759 Groat Road NW Edmonton, AB T5M 3K6
Nomination Deadline: 11:59 PM MST, August 3, 2015
2015 Community Wellness Leadership Award – Nomination Form
1. Nominator Contact Information: Community Name:
Name of individual or group:
If a group, contact name:
Job Title or Role:
Organization:
Phone:
Email:
2. Nominee Information: Name:
Community:
Position Title or Role:
Phone:
Email:
3. How is the person you are nominating a wellness champion in your community?
4. How does this person support Communities ChooseWell and your efforts to enhance healthy eating and active living in your community?
Send completed applications to:
Email: [email protected] Fax: (780) 451-‐7915
Mail: Alberta Recreation and Parks Association Attention: Communities ChooseWell 11759 Groat Road NW Edmonton, AB T5M 3K6
Nomination Deadline: 11:59 PM MST, August 3, 2015 Thank you for your participation in Communities ChooseWell and all your efforts to create a healthier community that supports residents to eat well and be active! Applicants will be notified by September 15, 2015 regarding award decisions. Awards will be presented at the Alberta Recreation and Parks Association’s Conference & Energize Workshop, October 22-‐24, 2015 at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in Lake Louise, AB.
