Overview
The Canadian Disability Participation Project (CDPP) 2.0 is a research partnership. Partners include 43 academics from across Canada, the United States and England. They also include 31 Canadian sport, exercise and active play organizations and academic institutions.
CDPP 2.0 is funded through a 7-year research grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). It’s built from CDPP 1.0, a SSHRC-funded research partnership that launched in 2015. CDPP 1.0 focused on understanding and improving quality participation for people with physical disabilities in sport and exercise, employment, and community mobility.
Quality participation happens when an individual feels that participating in an activity is satisfying and enjoyable. When quality participation happens, individuals will experience outcomes that are important to them. Quality participation is the result of repeated and continuous quality experiences. Quality experiences are built from 6 building blocks: autonomy, belongingness, challenge, engagement, mastery and meaning.
CDPP 2.0 will expand on the research and knowledge products created in CDPP 1.0. The goal of CDPP 2.0 is to develop, test, implement and disseminate evidence-based programs that create quality sport, exercise and active play participation for children, youth and adults experiencing disability in Canada.
Our Goal
Our goal is to co-create and mobilize new knowledge to improve quality participation in sport, exercise, and active play and optimize outcomes of participation among children, youth, and adults experiencing disability.
Our Success Statement
In 7 years, we will know our partnership has been successful if physical activity is a quality experience for people with a disability living in Canada.
To be successful, we will:
Partner
We will meaningfully engage academic partners, community partners and people with lived experience of disability to conduct, disseminate and implement research.
Innovate
We will conduct innovative research generating new knowledge and evidence-based tools and resources to create quality experience in sport, exercise, and play for people with disabilities.
Build capacity
We will develop competent leaders in quality participation and physical activity research, knowledge translation and practice while valuing the well-being of and ensuring a quality experience for all team members.
Our Core Values
Contributing to positive impact in our communities.
Prioritizing quality in all we do.
Partnering authentically and respectfully.
Being reflexive and responsive to engage persons least represented in physical activity and disability research and practice.
A note about language
Recognizing that language about disability is deeply personal, nuanced, and ever-evolving, person-first (athlete with a disability, people with disabilities) will be used interchangeably with identity-first (disabled person) as well as sport-specific language as needed (athlete, Para athlete).