History Highlights of PLAY
- Strategy launched in June 2007
- 17 municipalities in Grey and Bruce; Grey County; Bruce County; Grey Bruce Health Unit, 2 School Boards and the Ministry of Health Promotion agreed to become partners and signed a PLAY charter confirming their commitment to support the strategy.
- 2007 – Secured Community’s in Action Fund grant to implement the strategy
- PLAY in Bruce Grey Committee began meeting in October of 2007
- Community Action Networks (CANS) were created within the 17 counties including representatives from Public Health, the municipalities and community volunteers.
- The PLAY Notes e-bulletin was developed and to this day is circulated to municipalities along with being posted on the website
- A PLAY-Friendly Report Card is available to communities to gauge how play-friendly their community is.
- The PLAY in Bruce Grey website was developed to further promote PLAY (www.playbrucegrey.com).
- A number of PLAY promotional materials have been designed and circulated to municipalities and other partners with the intention of increased brand recognition.
- Funding was secured through the Ontario Trillium Foundation in the spring of 2010 to hire a coordinator over a two-year period to further promote and develop PLAY; as well as to ensure that the initiative is sustainable within each of the seventeen municipalities.
