This honour is awarded to a University of Manitoba staff member who unquestionably demonstrates meritorious service in outreach activities. For well over a decade Dr. Kriellaars has traveled across Manitoba and Canada volunteering his time to share his knowledge about healthy lifestyles and physical literacy with health care professionals, coaches, trainers, and educators in association with organizations such as the RCMP, Sport for Life, and Physical and Health Education Canada.
Acting on his vision of enhancing people?s health and physicality, Dr. Kriellaars has pioneered new programs that have been adopted across the country. He created a novel informed decision making program for substance use in sport and health, which is the basis of a new professional development module for the Coaching Association of Canada. The RCMP, in their national drugs-and-sports program, also adopted this model, and the model is the foundation for a new 30-minute drug prevention video targeted for nationwide school use. He was also the first in the world to develop a program evaluation survey for assessing substance use and abuse in sports; it has been used for the past five years and it provides organizations such as Sport Manitoba with current and relative information about the behaviors of athletes related to substances, fitness practices, and nutrition.
Dr. Kriellaars regularly speaks to student bodies across the province and country about healthy living and substance abuse. In British Columbia he worked with the BC Sport Agency to combat their crisis of inactivity among youth and he continues to work with the agency to monitor and adapt the program. In Manitoba, he speaks to more than 25 at-risk sports teams and communities a year about the dangers of smokeless tobacco (?chew?), which he has identified as a growing problem in sport.
He also educates the educators: he speaks regularly with the Manitoba Physical Education Teachers Association, and he was a keynote speaker at both the Saskatchewan Physical Educators Association and presented twice at the Province of Alberta?s Perspective in Exercise, Health and Fitness Conference. He also leads workshops across the country for health care professionals, instructing them on the latest research findings on disease and injury prevention through proper activity and lifestyle practices.
He has worked with ParticipACTION, the national not-for-profit organization for enhancing physical literacy in youth. He was a primary contributor to a new ?Passport for Life? physical literacy program for Physical and Health Education Canada. He has developed new tools for assessing physical literacy, termed PLAY ? Physical Literacy Assessment Tools for Youth. Dr. Kriellaars piloted these tools in Manitoba but now they are making an impact on youth across Canada through the Sport for Life movement. Currently, he is working on a Public Health Agency of Canada initiative that will help prevent amateur sport injuries using a physical literacy approach.
It is suiting that a researcher so dedicated to healthy lifestyles and physical activity is himself so energetic. Not a week passes without Dr. Kriellaars sharing his knowledge so that communities can grow stronger and healthier. He habitually demonstrates a passion for enriching the ties between the University and Canadian communities and for that the University honours him, and thanks him for his trendsetting work.
For more information contact Sean Moore, Marketing Communications Office, University of Manitoba, 204-474-7963 (sean_moore@umanitoba.ca).
Source: http://umanitoba.ca/news/blogs/blog/2012/11/22/trendsetter-wins-outreach-award/
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