Re-Aim Theme | Quote |
Reach | “How, how do you get people to exercise more? You change their mind… Shifting of attitudes, and the conversations we’ve had internally is an ongoing thing and you can’t put a monetary value to it. But it was a big part of our programme and it will continue to be, going forward.” |
“The messaging we had around it was, have a go, enjoy it with your friends, get fit, feel better, this is good medicine, this is good stuff for you. This is going to help you and help you feel much better. You can have fun with your mates” “I would probably suggest for them to really look at how they can leverage relationships with stakeholders and people who have a respect and access to community members in a particular area.” | |
Effectiveness | “We saw an 81% increase or improvement in their sit-to-stand test scores [after 8-weeks of participation in the funded activity], so their mobility, which is huge. And then we saw a 68% increase in their grip strength. Which doesn’t sound like much but for seniors can be really important.” |
“Having that really targeted approach and consulting with the communities that we’re trying to target is something that we do, but we just didn’t really think about it in as much detail or had time to do what we did for the Move it AUS grant.” | |
“I think it gave [the participants] a bit of motivation to start on getting healthier and that was what a lot of them needed. And I think it also broke down a few barriers for them. Walking into a gym or a sporting organisation I think could be quite threatening for people from another culture. And they got such a warm response that I think that broke down a lot of barriers.” | |
Adoption | “We would almost be back at square one, or not far down the track, if we hadn’t had the opportunity through the grant.” |
“The other challenge is trying to convince people around us. I’m in that female participation space, but [we need] our decision makers [to understand] why this programme is really important, and for them to understand that this is the opportunity, and we’ve got to support this, not just because it’s a grant… But that this is absolute key… We keep talking about wanting to be different, and we want to do things differently, we’ve got this opportunity, so, let’s do it.” | |
“The change sport is providing is challenging the norm now. It pushes us to be innovative. I think that’s such a positive thing. To be pushed out of your comfort zone and to see what you can do because there’s some, some incredible outcomes that come from that.” | |
“From an internal perspective… The message that we really tried to get across is that [the] terminology is changing. Consumption of sport is changing and has changed over the last five years, and if [our sport] wants to remain relevant in the space, meaning we need to keep having people participate in our sport to actually make their way up the pathway to high performance, we needed to adopt to some of this terminology change [to include participation strategies], which meant challenging the norm.” | |
Implementation | “So, we’ve created a new what we call a community instructor module, which is basically a course for all our coaches to do to upskill and to up-educate in our national programs. So, we’ve built in a lot of the focus through that. It’s sort of the same in terms of the senior program as well. It’s really about educating our deliverers and making sure they understand the needs of these groups.” |
“We’ve been talking about this legacy… that we use this premise of activation of spaces and sporting clubs to target a wider variety of people who are inactive. [To] provide those introductory… non-threatening activities, the accessible ones in terms of costs and geographical location… so that we’re seeing more concerted effort to get underrepresented population groups physically active.” | |
“This funding has… given us a platform to say, we don’t have to do things the same way that it has been done… and it’s challenged the norm.” | |
Maintenance | “This was a good opportunity for us to run a program, but also bring on board some partners that would help us tell that story, people like ESSA with some surveys and data analysing… [It] also gave us some very important data so that we could tell the story later.” |
“We need a strong national PA strategy that is cross-government, that engages everyone. That involves organised sport, that involves active outdoor recreation. That involves fitness, that involves active transport and that involves play. We need something broader, and it needs to be integrated so we’re not all scrambling to get dollars but we’re all actually working together because that’s the only way we’ll achieve success.” |