Game Plan: A total athlete wellness

Services available for all the carded athletes and until two years after their retirement

Game Plan, powered by Deloitte, is Canada’s total athlete wellness program that strives to support national team athletes to live better and more holistic lives. Through the development of their skills and network, athletes are able to focus on health, education, and career opportunities both during their high-performance career and beyond. The program helps to develop mentally stronger athletes who apply what they have learned as leaders in sport for the betterment of themselves and their communities.

Game Plan is a collaboration between the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute Network (COPSIN) and Sport Canada to provide the best resources this country has to offer to our national team athletes – a team that has given so much and inspired so many.

The services offered around the 5 Game Plan elements:

Education

Free access to an Athlete Career Transition Advisor, Orientation and Guidance Counselor
Sophie Brassard
sbrassard@insquebec.org

Alliance Sport-Études

Various services and benefits for student athletes members:
Geneviève Saumur
gsaumur@alliancesportetudes.ca

Opportunities offered by the Smith School of Business

The Smith School of Business is known for its excellence, its innovative approaches and its leadership in business education. It launched the first Commerce degree in Canada in 1919. Since that time, the Smith School of Business continues to innovate by launching revolutionary academic programs and emerging topics courses. This is what makes the School a leader in preparing you to integrate the job market.

As the exclusive business education partner of the Canadian Olympic Team, the Smith School of Business is proud to help you prepare to succeed beyond your sport. The School will offer up to 1200 scholarships to canadian athletes during eight years.These scholarships will be available through a wide range of academic programs and trainings without credits.

For more information, log in to My Game Plan et go to Education:
https://www.mygameplan.ca/ressources/education

Online learnings offered by edX

EdX is the best nonprofit and free access web platform where you can find courses open for all. On this web platform, you can find high-quality courses from top-ranked universities and institutions in the world. Founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012, edX’s mission is to democratize and reimagine education by making higher education more accessible and by establishing a culture of continuing education that will last a lifetime.

For more information, log in to My Game Plan et go to Education : mygameplan.ca

Health

Morneau Sheppell

Thanks to a partnership with Morneau Shepell, our athletes can access in a confidential manner a wide range of mental health and wellness services as well as career and workplace management assistance, relations, family and finances support and legal services and advices.

Cell : 1-844-240-2990
Online service: goo.gl/n3M7iu

Psychological support

Carded athletes have access to free psychological sessions. *Limited number of sessions

Talk to your athletes services advisor for more information. This service is confidential. Sports managers and training coaches are not aware of the actions taken by the athlete.
Réseautage

Networking

It is essential for high-level athletes that are transitioning from competitive sports to retirement to develop their professional network.

Networking activities for Équipe Québec program Recipients.

Networking events are offered to athletes all year long. Check your emails!

Skills development

Workshops on a range of topics, such as personal financial management, entrepreneurship, researching potential sponsorships, etc.

Visit the Program section of the Game Plan website to see all of the programs on offer and admission deadlines: mygameplan.ca

Rosetta Stone language learning software

INS Québec has five licences that can be provided to athletes for a minimum of three months. If you’d like to register and learn a new language, contact your Athlete Services Advisor: ctruchon@insquebec.org.

Gradeslam

• 24/7, unlimited academic support
• UNLIMITED online individual tutoring in all fields
• Game Plan puts a tutoring project together in collaboration with GradeSlame.

With instant messaging, files sharing tools and the virtual board all integrated to the GradeSlam platform, students have every help they need at their fingertips.

You would like to try GradeSlam?

• You must be carded
• Make sure to register on Game Plan website

Contact info@gradeslam.org to register. Once in contact with the team, use the link below to get identified.
Click here to activate your GradeSlam account and to have an unlimited access the online tutoring program.