Hello MW Hockey Parents and Athletes,

Every parent wants to allow their child to play a sport without injury. This is not always possible as injuries do occur. Most are the ones we can see easily. Cuts, bruises, and joint injuries are ones that are noticeable pretty much immediately and we can deal with them quickly.

Concussions are not so easy to detect and treat. With that in mind, you will find a number of downloadable pdf files provided by Parachute Canada for your use to help in understanding, recognizing and treating them with a set of guidelines for parents, players and coaches to print out and bring with them to the next team event.

We ALWAYS want to be cautious with suspected head injuries for children whose brains are still developing. So these tools can help us all protect those we care about the most. 

Please take a moment to view the pdf files below. 

1. Sport Concussion Recognition Tool 5 (CRT5)
2. A parent’s guide to dealing with concussions
3. Return to Sport Guidelines
4. Concussion Guidelines for Coaches and Trainers
5. Concussion Guidelines for the Athlete
6. Concussion Basics flyer
7. Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport, Berlin 2016
8. Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT5)
9. Child Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (Child SCAT5)
10. Brain Waves Parent Resource
11. Concussion Guidelines for Physicians
12. Brain Injuries Fact Sheet
13. Poster: I’m Not Invincible – Boy
14. Poster: Preventable: Have A Word With Yourself V.2
15. Poster: I’m Not Invincible – Girl
16. Poster: Preventable: Have A Word With Yourself V.1
17. Parent Tip Sheet: A parent’s guide to dealing with concussions
18. Things to know about concussion

About Parachute

Parachutes’s Mission

Creating a safer Canada by preventing serious and fatal injuries through evidence-based solutions that advocate and educate.

Parachute’s Vision

A Canada free of serious injuries… with Canadians living long lives to the fullest.

Parachute, a national Canadian charity founded in 2012, promotes researched, evidence-based and expert-advised resources and tools that can help to prevent serious harm or death from preventable injuries. Parachute, led by President and CEO Steve Podborskiwants Canadians from coast to coast to coast in this great nation to safely work, play, and enjoy their families and friends to the fullest throughout a long and healthy life.

Annually, predictable and preventable injuries in Canada result in:

• 16,000 deaths
• 231,000 hospital stays
• 3.5 million visits to emergency rooms
• 60,000-plus disabilities; and
• $26.8 billion in total economic burden

Experts estimate that up to 90 per cent of serious injuries are predictable and preventable.

Despite being the leading cause of death for Canadians aged 1 to 44, injury is one of the most under-funded social issues when compared to other forces that affect our health and longevity, such as cancer or heart diseases.

Parachute will lead the campaign to bring an end to these preventable tragedies. Our strategies include increasing awareness around the importance of injury prevention and providing the best solutions to prevent injury in the home, on the streets, at work, during sports, or at play.

We will raise funds to execute these initiatives while increasing our capacity by attracting influencers and innovators who support our mission: We want to mobilize Canadians – individuals, organizations, and governments – to understand the effectiveness of injury prevention and work with them to adopt these measures to help Canadians live long lives to the fullest.

Parachute’s values

At Parachute, we strive to promote a supportive, empowering, innovative culture. Our values and team-based approach to our work ensures employees have the opportunity to provide input to solutions while developing and advancing their knowledge and careers within a balanced work-life environment.

Parachute’s approach to injury prevention is based on the following values and principles:

• Evidence-based – Parachute uses an evidence-based approach to setting priorities, designing implementable and cost-effective solutions, and evaluating impact.
• Implementation focused – Parachute builds capacity and provides best practice solutions that are scalable and meet the needs of our diverse stakeholder and injury prevention network across the country, focusing on programs and initiatives that are achieving the desired impact and outcomes.
• Policy driven – Parachute provides thought leadership and focus to public policy dialogue and actions across Canada.
• Collaborative and complementary – Parachute strengthens the cause of injury prevention and sets the national agenda by bringing together leading practices, from Canada and around the world. We work with federal, provincial, and territorial injury prevention initiatives, as well as corporations and foundations, to augment and accelerate their efforts, avoid duplication, and share leading practices.
• Innovative – Parachute attracts innovators and influencers to injury prevention. We embrace new approaches, ideas, technologies, and processes that can help us achieve our goals.