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Recreation - Halifax - Children & Youth
HRM Community Recreation Services
Phone: (902) 490-6666
Web: http://www.halifax.ca/rec/
Community Recreation Services (CRS) offers a wide range of recreation programs and services to over 196 communities throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality.Core services focus on the child and youth population while also providing gap filling opportunities for other age groups. Community Recreation Services enriches the lives of HRM residents and communities by facilitating and/or providing quality inclusive leisure services, facilities and programs.
Recreation Centres
Below is a listing of recreational centres in the Halifax Region. Some of these centres offer specialized recreational programs such as Cole Harbour Place which offers specialized fitness programs delivered by a licensed physiotherapist. Programs include a fitness class for stroke survivors, and prenatal fitness excersise classes. All centres are wheelchair accessible. Please contact these centres for further information on specialized programs in your local area.
Canada Games Centre
Phone : (902) 490-2400
Web : http://www.halifax.ca/canadagamescentre/home/index.php
Cole Harbour Place
Phone: (902) 464-5100
Web: www.coleharbourplace.com
Dartmouth Sportsplex
Phone: (902) 464-2600
Web: www.dartmouthsportsplex.com
Centennial Pool
Phone: (902) 490-7219
Web: www.centennialpool.ca
Rec Connect - Recreational Catalogue
Web: www.halifax.ca/rec/programsandactivities.html
The Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has developed a recreational catalogue with a complete listing of adaptive recreational programs located in the Halifax Region. Check out the Rec Connect Recreational Catalogue for an inclusion directory.
Tim Hortons Children’s Foundation
Phone: (902) 657-2359
Web: http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/difference/childrens_programs.html
Tim Horton Children's Foundation camp programs are designed to give children the opportunity to experience many positive personal achievements while at camp. This allows them to grow, develop independence, and return home with new found strengths and the courage to achieve the goals they set for themselves.
Camp Goodtime
Phone: (902) 423-6183
Web: http://www.cancer.ca/Nova%20Scotia/Support%20Services/NS-Camp%20Goodtime.aspx?sc_lang=en
Summer Camping Program, Department of Community Services
Phone: Kentville 902-678-6176
Annapolis Royal 902-532-2337
Web: http://www.gov.ns.ca/coms/families/community_outreach.html
Programs offered by the YMCA including seven different day-camps for children with special needs, and three residential camps for children and adults.
Abilities Foundation of Nova Scotia
Phone: (902) 453-6000
Web: www.easterseals.ns.ca/
Offers an Active Lifestyles Program that includes Camp Tidnish, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Challenge, and the Take PART (Physically Accessible Recreation Today) initiative – designed to get Nova Scotia’s youth with disabilities more physically active.
Special Olympics Nova Scotia
Toll Free: 1-866-299-2019
Web: www.sons.ca/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
The Special Olympics provides social and athletic skills to individuals with special needs( both adults and children)
