No Exceptions Training
The No Exceptions Training (NET) Programme is a SPARC initiative, which is facilitated and delivered by the Halberg Trust through the Sport Opportunity Programme.
The programme's purpose is:
"To provide a national network for education and support for sport and recreation providers to enable them to increase their confidence, knowledge and skills, to create better opportunities for more people with disabilities."
The main way the programme achieves this is through the delivery of sport and active leisure training workshops to assist community providers, teachers, coaches and community leaders with comprehensive and direct practical support for including disabled people in regular sport and physical activity programmes.
The workshops focus on inclusion of all participants into their physical education programmes, adaptation of games and some ideas for new games that can be used with people. The workshops deliberately use a practical approach, and the promotion of positive attitudes toward disability, sport and physical activity.
The workshops can be offered to individuals or groups with an interest or involvement in providing sport and leisure that wholly or partly includes, or is likely to include, disabled people. Workshops are designed for particular target groups (e.g., Module 2 - Success in Schools is aimed at teachers). Workshops can also be customised to suit the needs of particular sports and/or interest groups.
The No Exceptions Training has six modules. These are:
Module 1: Count me in - a general community sport and awareness workshop for everyone interested or involved in the provision of sport and active leisure opportunities that include disabled people
Module 2: Success in Schools - a sport, physical education and disability awareness workshop focusing on the inclusion of young disabled people into school-based sport and physical activity programs
Module 3: Opening doors for disabled people - a practical workshop that assists sport and recreation organisations to develop strategies to attract and retain disabled people as members
Module 4: Play by the rules - a workshop that helps sport and creation organisations to understand and deal with issues of disability discrimination, and meet their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Module 5: Sporting Pathways - a practical workshop that demystifies what disability sport is all about, and covers issues relating to classification and Paralympic sport. This is a feeder workshop for Disability Sport Contact Officers and/classifiers.
Module 6: Inclusive Coaching - a coach orientated workshop that enhances current knowledge and promotes the inclusion of disabled athletes.
Here is the link to the Halberg website for more
