{"id":1636,"date":"2022-10-26T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/?page_id=1636"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:38:11","slug":"fitskills-for-gyms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/fitskills-for-gyms\/","title":{"rendered":"FitSkills for gyms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FitSkills for gyms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Are you looking at ways to make your gym more inclusive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you like your gym to be more accessible for people with disability?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">FitSkills is an evidence-based physical activity program that helps people with Down syndrome access gyms by increasing their confidence in going to the gym by providing them with a volunteer partner. Volunteers and participants attend the gym together once per week. The program runs to school terms, and does not run during school holiday periods. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there are significant benefits for participants, there are also lots of benefits to the gym community including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>supporting the achievement of Disability Action Plans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>increase gym membership<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>opportunities to promote your gym<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>help reach targets for inclusion of people with disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions or would like to get your gym involved, email Nicole, the FitSkills21 Program Manager, on\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fitskills@dsav.asn.au\">fitskills@dsav.asn.au<\/a>\u00a0and she will get back to you with more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FitSkills for gyms Are you looking at ways to make your gym more inclusive? Would you like your gym to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1682,"parent":0,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"state":[],"class_list":["post-1636","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1636\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}