Team Up
Camps
Team Up Camps connect professional and/or varsity athletes with youth athletes for a day of skill development and concussion education.
Team Up Camps
Team Up Camps connect professional and/or varsity athletes with youth athletes for a day of skill development on the field, ice, or court, and concussion education off the field. These camps are offered for various sports, including football, hockey, rugby, and soccer. To date, we have held 14 Brains and Brawn camps in various sports, reaching over 3,000 participants.
In the spirit of reconciliation and aiming to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, our most recent camps work with Indigenous communities to provide cultural spaces for Indigenous youth to develop their hockey skills while learning how to recognize and respond to concussions.
The Team Up program also features various initiatives, including awareness events, peer support programs, resource referral programs, speaker series, and more.
Team Up programs are organized locally and held publicly, thereby providing grassroots health and wellness outreach in communities across Canada.
Concussion Legacy Captains are CLF ambassadors committed to achieving our vision of concussion safety without compromise. Captains will give the Team Up Against Concussions speech to their sports teams every season to set the tone that no athlete with a concussion should return to play before their brain is ready.
A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth. Many concussions go unreported and untreated, making it extremely important to know how to recognize them.