Peterborough Area Concussion Awareness (PACA) are getting ready to launch an educational Sport Concussion video series, with additional educational content, to coincide with Rowan’s Law Day on September 28th. Rowan’s Law is named after Rowan Stringer, who died from a concussion related injury playing Rugby in 2013. Rowan’s Law requires all coaches and team trainers to review their sport organization’s Concussion Code of Conduct each year before the start of the season. It’s provincially mandated and the day is marked in Ontario on the last Wednesday of September each year.
Rowan’s Law (Concussion Safety), 2018 makes it mandatory for sports organizations to ensure that athletes under 26 years of age, parents of athletes under 18, coaches, team trainers and officials confirm every year that they have reviewed Ontario’s Concussion Awareness Resources, establish a Concussion Code of Conduct that sets out rules of behaviour to support concussion prevention, establish a Removal-from-Sport and Return-to-Sport protocol.
On Rowan’s Law Day, PACA is excited to release a one of a kind, localized concussion education resource in the form of a “docuseries.” This community-based educational video series brings together different stakeholder groups within our local sport community to provide more awareness and education on concussions in sport. Created and produced by HeadsupCAN Films, the team conducted 18 interviews with people in the Peterborough community who were in one way or another affected by concussions. Collectively, the interviewees represent different stakeholder groups who each interact with the injury in sport and the broader community (Athletes, Teammates, Teachers, Parents, Coaches, Researchers and Doctors).
The series will engage viewers of all ages as it takes audiences through a comprehensive understanding of PACA’s 4 pillars: Recognize, Remove, Manage and Prevent. Each pillar represents equally important aspects of understanding concussions in sport. Beyond Rowan’s Law Day we hope this series will be used as a concussion education resource for the Peterborough area and beyond. Not only is this the story of concussions in Peterborough, but this narrative can be applied to many other communities across the country.
All of the remaining videos in the docuseries, which are about 45 minutes total in content spread over the 4 videos, will be available at http://www.PACA.HEALTH on the 28th.
For more information on Concussion Awareness or on Rowan’s Law, contact your school board representative or email coordinator@paca.health to learn more.
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