PROGRAMMING & ACTIVITIES

What is Therapeutic Recreation?

Therapeutic Recreation is a health care profession that utilizes a therapeutic process, involving leisure, recreation and play as a primary tool for each individual to achieve their highest level of independence and quality of life.

What does a Recreation Therapist Do?

Recreation Therapists are among the allied health professionals who work in a variety of health care settings. Recreation Therapists use forms of recreation, leisure, and play as treatments modalities to support purposeful and meaningful interventions that are based on individual strengths and values, and are guided by assessments. These health care professionals utilize the APIED (Assess, Plan, Implement, Evaluate, and Document) process to direct service delivery.

What are the benefits of Therapeutic Recreation?

• Provide a holistic, strengths based approach to address the physical , cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual domains

• Promoting leisure independence and optimal leisure lifestyle

• Development of healthy living strategies through leisure

• Stress management

• Social engagement

• Self-efficacy

• Increasing independence and promoting self reliance

• Leisure participation, activation and enjoyment

• Achievement of goals via group and one to one interventions

• Goal setting and outcome measures

• Community inclusion

• Provide strategies to adapt to the environment/overcome barriers related to illness or disability