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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 |
