Isabel Coupland, Amy Latimer-Cheung

21% of the 8 million adults with disabilities occasionally participate in sports – a rate 10% lower than the general population. When persons with disabilities (PWD) do participate, their experiences are not universally positive. Quality participation (QP) promotes long-term participation and well-being for PWD. Volunteers play an important role in promoting and upholding QP in sport events for PWD. Recommendations to create QP for sport event volunteers exist but have not been implemented across different contexts. According to the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), the context in which an innovation is implemented matters. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of volunteer experience recommendations at a sport event for PWD. This study will be implemented at a major sporting event. The volunteer committee will be provided the QP recommendations, and the committee will have the freedom to implement them at their discretion. Both volunteers (nv=40) and athletes (na=40) will complete a Measure of Experiential Aspects of Participation survey at the end of their last shift/event. The volunteer committee will participate in a debrief interview to understand the rationale for recommendation selection. Analysis will include a cross-case study using triangulation and a summative evaluation CFIR components. Little information exists on the implications of QP for volunteers at sport events. Limited knowledge in this area may be contributing to inequities PWD experience. This research helps to fill this gap, contributing to a greater understanding of relationships between volunteers, QP, and the experiences of PWD in sport event contexts.