Families living in poverty face several constraints gaining access to support and resources needed participate recreation leisure activities. Community providers have an important role play, often utilizing fee assistant programs (FAPs), or low no cost programming as key strategies. These financial focused strategies, however, only address some of the challenges with which low-income families are confronted. The literature has reported a number other constraints, such discrimination,...

Leisure is promoted as critical to enhancing both individual and community wellbeing; however, for individuals living in poverty, access participation leisure often difficult, which makes experiencing the positive outcomes associated with recreation even more difficult. The purpose of this paper describe low-income families experienced through a community-based education program. Through semi-structured interviews ten mothers poverty two staff members that delivered program families, study...

Through the lens of neoliberalism, purpose this paper is to illustrate techniques responsibilization in municipal recreation access provisions. Using data from interviews with 16 administrators Atlantic Canada, we trace through fiscal policies and administration schemes characterizing four neoliberalism tenets: privatization, efficiency, individualism, accountability. Our findings identified embedded provisions for low-income citizens: 1) privatizing by off-loading programming...

Despite the financial assistance programmes (FAPs) available in communities, many low-income families still cannot participate leisure, leaving them excluded from benefits that can come participation. To bridge this gap, it has been suggested leisure education help ensure individuals, families, and community practitioners develop skills, knowledge, confidence so of are more likely to be experienced. This study explored how a not-for-profit recreation organization used support access...

With the rise of neoliberalism, community leisure practitioners have access to fewer resources, which requires adopting business-like practices private sector organizations. To ensure for low-income families, incorporate economic-based policies. Despite these efforts, many families are still unable community-based provisions. Drawing on data from a case study nonprofit organization that supports families' activities, we found provisions had rigid program structures, subsidy programs,...

This study examined neoliberalism's influence on how access provisions are conceptualized and designed by municipal recreation practitioners. Specific attention is paid to neoliberalism intersects with practitioners' conceptualizations administration of for low-income citizens. Sixteen practitioners in Atlantic Canada were interviewed. Our findings indicated that viewed citizens predominantly terms financial resources needing break down several barriers. Further, four types administered...

Fee assistance programmes (FAPs) used by community sport and recreation organizations (CSROs) are a popular means of addressing the financial barriers low-income families face. However, there is dearth literature that speaks to other ways CSROs support inclusion families. The purpose this study use Ponic Frisby’s organizational dimension which was published in 2010, as conceptual framework examine how recreation. Through data analysis, three main themes were constructed illuminate...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected rural low-income mothers due to intersecting and compounding factors such as gender, race, income, disability, among others. In this study, we utilized socialist feminist theory explore the impacts had on mothers' capacity facilitate leisure support their families' well-being. Through semi-structured interviews with 29 mothers, our findings indicated that these women were uniquely challenged having balance paid unpaid work entertaining...

Purpose/rationale: Access to recreation for low-income families remains an issue in Canada, particularly single-mother led families. The purpose of this paper is describe how a non-profit organization used leisure education support access by supporting mothers' roles as facilitators their children's activities.Research methods: Data were collected through eight semi-structured interviews with mothers who participated program.Findings: results the study highlight programming can help identify...

Rationale Recreation practitioners in the public and non-profit sectors are key supporting community residents’ well-being through facilitation of recreation programs services; however, working under influence neoliberalism governance, which challenges practitioners’ ability to support low-income citizens’ participation recreation. Through lens neoliberalism, this paper aims explore strategies towards implementing services targeted at citizens discusses implications it has on for...

Rationale To critically examine fee assistance programs (FAPs) through the lens of responsibilization and discuss implications creating access to sport for low-income families.

ABSTRACTRecreation is an important resource that can support residents' capacity to cope with stress and deal community crisis, such as a pandemic. However, rural low-income families often experience inequitable access recreation provisions. COVID-19 pandemic forced municipal departments across Canada re-evaluate adapt their provisions, of particular importance for families. Through the lens social liberalism, this study examined role department's response crisis implications its provisions...

Rural communities often have fewer resources and supports to cultivate recreation participation, making participation in less accessible for citizens with low incomes. Such barriers highlight the important role rural practi-tioners terms of developing delivering access provisions these citi-zens. The objectives this study are as follows: 1) explore practitioners design deliver incomes, 2) discuss implications relation con-text incomes’ recreation. This paper focuses on research conducted...