The MLSE Foundation is excited to share the results and recommendations from the Change the Game research project.
COVID-19 shut downs have presented a rare opportunity to experience what life is like without sport, to evaluate and reflect on what is important, and reimagine a better way for youth to develop through sport. Between March and May of 2021, MLSE Foundation and the University of Toronto engaged more than 6800 individual youth and parents from across Ontario to share their experiences with access, engagement, and equity factors in sport, and ideas for what bringing sport back better means to them. The sample was robust and representationally diverse in terms of gender, age, geography, race, household income, and ability status. It included youth who have collectively participated in more than 100 different sports as well as those who are not engaged in sport.
MLSE Foundation’s Change the Game webpage underwent a transformation to become an interactive, online dashboard that includes:
A research report containing key insights from the study alongside recommendations for youth sport providers, policymakers, funders, and researchers; and where the study team and contributors such as YCRH have been named
A transparent and interactive results dashboard allowing anyone to visually explore how the responses to key questions and themes vary by demographic, geographical location, and equity factors
A downloadable version of the anonymized data set
A media release and a series of social stories to accompany the roll-out
Read the full report here.