Promoting children's health through community-led street interventions: analyzing sustained voluntarism in Canadian School Streets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Active School Travel (AST) initiatives align with the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, which calls for 'creating supportive environments' and 'strengthening community action.' However, their reliance on volunteers poses sustainability challenges. The main objectives of this study were to document the motivations, satisfaction, and experiences of volunteers involved in sustaining two AST initiatives in Ontario for an entire school year.

Methods

Two volunteer-led School Street initiatives in Kingston, Ontario successfully operated during pick-up and drop-off times of each school day. The first initiative operated for the entire 2021-2022 school year, and the second operated for the entire 2022-2023 school year. These initiatives were the first of their kind in t

SUBMITTER: Thompson CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11010341 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature