Places where all children regardless of ability can come as they are.
We bring accessible facilities to life with sports, fitness, activities, summer camps, skills training and coaching for competitive and Paralympic athletes.
Our programming makes a direct impact on mobility, socialization, language, and learning – across the range of needs and challenges that children with disabilities face.
- 100
INCLUSIVE PROGRAMS OFFERED SO FAR
- 1,000
ACCESSIBLE CLASSES HELD PER YEAR
- 4,000
ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS AND COUNTING
Locations
We work with community leaders like MLSE, regional municipalities and the YMCA to offer our programming through partner facilities across Toronto, Vaughan, Markham, and London.
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Variety Toronto
Our flagship 76,000 square foot facility houses a full-featured, fully-accessible health and fitness centre, along with our day programs and summer camps.
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MLSE Launchpad
Children in MotionIntroduced in February 2017, Variety Ontario runs the Children in Motion program at MLSE Launchpad, a 42,000-square-foot sports-for-learning facility hosting after-school programming for underserviced youth.
Future programming
We are actively developing programs within Toronto, Vaughan, Markham, Beeton, Peel, and London and we want to bring Children in Motion, Volt Hockey, and Ability in Action programs to communities in your area.
We need your support
to give every child with a disability in Ontario the opportunity to play.
Our areas of expertise:
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- Disability
- Accessibility
- Integration and inclusion
- Physical and developmental disabilities
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Fitness, rehabilitation and physiotherapy
- Health, wellness and nutrition
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Sport and adapted sport for people with disabilities, including:
- Wheelchair basketball
- Track
- Swimming and synchronized swimming
- Taekwondo
- Boccia
- Weightlifting and powerlifting
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Life skills programming for young adults with developmental disabilities, including:
- Summer camps
- Leadership skills
- Life-saving courses