Become Para Ready

The Becoming Para Ready (BPR) resource has been developed as an introductory guide to provide coaches and club administrators with the knowledge, confidence, and tools to be more proactive in inclusion.

Para Ready clubs can proactively plan, prepare, and communicate the ways they can, and cannot, support all athletes rather than reacting when contacted by athletes experiencing disability. With continued commitment, more inclusive sport experiences are possible.

The 3 main categories in this toolkit (perspective, planning and programming) can be viewed as steps on your journey towards building an environment that is inclusive to athletes experiencing disability.

This tool has been adapted from the Steadward Centre materials to be specific to rowing in BC. Many parts of this will require regular updating. If you see anything that is missing or is outdated, please contact Rowing BC (lisa.tschannen@rowingbc.ca) with that information.

This toolkit is designed to help rowing clubs to prepare themselves to welcome rowers to the club and club programming. For those who are interested in competition, there is information about classification and competition format on the Rowing BC website Para Rowing page.