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PERSONAL
BENEFITS: |
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Ensures a Full and Meaningful Life; |
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Helps to Manage Stress In One's Life In Today's
Busy and Demanding World; |
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Provides the Framework to Improve a Person's
Self Esteem and Positive Self Image; |
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Helps Balance Lives, Assists Participants to
Achieve Their Full Potential and Gain Life
Satisfaction; |
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Enhances Children's Play Which is Essential
to the Human Development Process; |
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Helps Youth Make Positive Lifestyle Choices
and Offers Alternatives to Self Destructive Behavior. |
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SOCIAL
BENEFITS: |
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Offers Structured Activities and Programs; |
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Provides Social Opportunities That Help Reduce
Alienation, Loneliness and Antisocial Behavior; |
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Promotes Ethnic and Cultural Harmony; |
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Builds Strong Families, the Foundation for a
Vital Community; |
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Provides Opportunities for Community Involvement,
and Shared Management and Ownership of Resources; |
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Ensures the Leisure Services are Accessible
to Everyone; |
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Enriches and Complements Other Services for
Youth Through After School and Other Recreational
Services; |
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ECONOMIC
BENEFITS: |
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Promotes a Healthy and Productive Work Force; |
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Can Motivate and Attract Business Relocation
and Expansion in the Community; |
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Reduces the Level of Vandalism and Criminal
Activity and Their Associated High Cost; |
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Catalyst for Tourism; |
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Investments in the Environment Through the Provision
of Parks and Open Spaces Pay for Themselves By
Maintaining Ecological Balance in an Urbanizing
Setting; |
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Enhances Property Values. |
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ENVIRONMENTAL
BENEFITS: |
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Maintains Green Space to Help Filter and Reduce
Run Off From Developed Areas; |
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Helps to Protect Natural/Historical Features
of the Natural Landscape; |
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Provide Habitat For Wildlife and Flora Species; |
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Can Help to Reduce Travel Time and Offset the
Effects of Pollution |
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