Sport4All Partnership

Hockey Victoria is pleased to partner with Sport4All to provide a range of education, training, and resources available for FREE to Associations, Clubs, and the Hockey Community in the inclusion space. Sport4All is about building capacity, capability, and curiosity about creating opportunities for people with disabilities to be involved in any way they choose. This is through participation and various volunteer roles, including coaching, umpiring, technical, administration, and committee roles.

Did you know: 

• 1 in 5 (18%) of Australians identify as having a disability
• 90% of people with a disability have a non-visible disability
• Only 4.4% of people with a disability are wheelchair users
• Only 24% of Australians with a disability play sport
• But 75% of Australians would like to participate in sport

“ We get asked often, "How can we be more accessible to the community?" This partnership is the first step in ensuring hockey continues to live up to its name as a sport for all, for life. "

- Rochelle Slade, Hockey Victoria Schools and Junior Recruitment Coordinator 

About Sport4All

We help community sports clubs and schools build the curiosity, skills, and confidence to include people with disabilities when, where, and how they choose. Sport4All is a national award-winning program brought to life through a collaboration between the Australian Government, the Australian Sports Commission, and former Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott’s consultancy, Get Skilled Access. We aim to drive a positive change in grassroots sport, ensuring everyone can enjoy the benefits of sport when, where, and how they choose.

Sport4All is dedicated to enhancing inclusion in sports by empowering local sporting clubs, schools, and communities to embrace diversity and create opportunities for people with disability.

Created by Get Skilled Access, a Disability-Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE), the Sport4All program is managed by people with disabilities and people with lived experience of disabilities.

How can Sport4All support our Clubs and Associations?

Understanding where to start

Start your journey to inclusion with our self-assessment tool. It helps you understand what you’re doing well and where we can help. The tool is free to all Hockey Victoria members, clubs, and associations.

Build confidence & capability

Using your detailed report from the inclusion check-in survey, engage with 8 Interactive Modules with short videos, resource booklets, checklists, and templates to support your journey.

Take meaningful action

Templates provided define short-, medium-, and long-term inclusive objectives for strategic vision, with implementation support.

Start your club's journey today!

Inclusive Coach Handbook

This inclusive hockey coaching resource has been produced to assist coaches to adapt their delivery methods to best support participants of all abilities.

Inclusive coaching should not be considered a separate coaching skill but a reflection of best practice.

Being inclusive means adapting and modifying coaching practices and activities to ensure that every participant – regardless of age, gender, ability level, disability or ethnic background – is included.
Coaching athletes with disabilities or those from various multi-cultural groups is no different to coaching any mixed group of athletes with varying abilities. Making small adaptions can often make a big difference in a participant’s enjoyment of an activity, especially if it increases their ability to successfully complete a task.

Special Olympics E-module

Special Olympics Australia has developed an online learning hub that will help you grow and enhance your skills and ability to interact with people with intellectual disabilities and autism, and provide them with greater sporting opportunities.

SOA Learn provides a platform designed to help teachers, mentors and coaches improve the delivery of sport and physical activity for people with an intellectual disability and autism

Click here for more information and to register today

Inclusive workshops

Hockey Victoria’s inclusive coaching workshop is designed to provide coaches with additional information and education to support their players with disabilities and diverse cultural backgrounds.

The workshop will include:

* Fundamental hockey skills

* Key coaching points and adaptions to include everyone in your session

* Session planning

* Practical assessment

* Community Coach Accreditation

For more information please contact Hockey Victoria at admin@hockeyvictoria.org.au

Communication Cards

Hockey Victoria in partnership with Scope have created a group of communications cards to assist coaches, especially those working with participants with communication difficulties.

These Communication card provide both basic pictures on the front and Auslan signs on the back of the cards. The cards can be downloaded, printed and used on a lanyard during practical on field sessions.

Communication Boards

This Communication board is fantastic to have displayed on registration desks, receptions in the club rooms to facilitates communication for children and members with limited expressive language ability. They communication by pointing, gesturing or gazing at the various symbols and pictures.

Please have these displayed all of the time!

Additional information can be sources from the following key inclusion organisations:

https://vicsport.com.au/healthy-welcoming-sport