Webinaire: Dans les coulisses du plus grand programme alimentaire scolaire au Canada : L'Ontario

Skip to main content area Research formResearch Health - Justice - Sustainability My account Logout Français Home WHO ARE WE? FOOD POLICY COMMUNITY AND NETWORKS RESOURCES AND NEWS SUBSCRIBE DONATE Warning messageSubmissions for this form are closed. WEBINAR: BEHIND THE SCENES OF CANADA'S LARGEST SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAM: ONTARIO Organized by: The Sustainable Food Network THURSDAY, MAY 21 FROM 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EASTERN DAY TIME With over $ 30 million Invested by the provincial government and funding from municipalities, Ontario's school food program is the largest in Canada. We invite you to learn more about the model behind this program and how it became the largest in Canada. WATCH THE RECORDING (link is external) The slides shown during the webinairs are available here. Thanks to an innovative approach that includes involving school staff, volunteers and community partnerships, the school food program in Ontario continues to grow. In May 2012, the Ministry of Public Health and Long-Term Care convened a group of experts to sit on its panel titled Healthy Kids to provide advice on how to achieve the obesity reduction goal. from childhood. In response to this panel, the report No time to wait: Healthy Kids Strategy (link is external) was by the government and one of the recommendations is to put in place a universal school feeding program aimed at ensuring good health. to children. Take a behind-the-scenes look at Canada's largest school feeding program and how Ontario is implementing the recommendations of the Healthy Kids strategy. PRESENTERS Nicola Lyle is the Regional Manager of Student Nutrition Programs (SNPs) (link is external) for Central East Ontario, working out of the Peterborough Family Resource Center (link is external), one of 14 Lead Agencies who administer SNPs in Ontario. She is also the Co-Chair of the Ontario Student Nutrition Program Network. As Regional Manager, Nicola administers provincial funding to more than 650 schools, that span from large, urban high schools to rural schools with less than 50 students. Prior to working in Student Nutrition, Nicola managed a variety of programs and projects in the areas of Child Welfare, Social Assistance, and Family Support. She has an M.Ed. from the University of Toronto, where she specialized in Community Development and Evaluation, and is an instructor in the Early Childhood Education Program at Durham College. In her spare time, she is an active community volunteer, and can be found chasing her teenage children down bike paths and ski trails. Tracy McMurray is a Manager of Child and Youth Development with the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services (link is external). She leads policy development on several key files including the Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program, the Ontario Child Benefit and the Student Nutrition Program, which helps provide a nutritious breakfast, lunch or snack to over 756,000 children and youth in over 3600 school and community locations across Ontario. Previously she was an advisor to senior executives at the 2015 Pan / Parapan American Games Secretariat and the former Ministry of Health Promotion. Tracy also spent 14 years in a community development role in the municipal parks and recreation sector. Tracy is currently an individual member of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada and a former board member of The Youth Center, (community health center), and a former member of the Centennial College Recreation and Leisure Program Advisory Committee. Michelle Vine is an Evaluation Specialist in Health Promotion, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at Public Health Ontario (link is external) and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo (link is external). She is a social geographer, with a focus on the environment and health, population health intervention research, health policy implementation, and qualitative research methods. For her doctoral research (McMaster University), Michelle evaluated the school nutrition policy environment in Ontario, examining local level factors shaping policy implementation. Her current research is focused on school food programs in Canada, the impact of a comprehensive school health approach in secondary schools, and after-school nutrition programs in First Nations communities. Michelle is currently working on a policy brief to link policy, practice and research in school nutrition, and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Health Promotion Practice. Carolyn Hunter is Carolyn Hunter is the Director of the Ottawa School Breakfast Program (OSBP) (link is external) - a program of the Ottawa Network for Education - one of 14 Lead Agencies administering the Ontario Student Nutrition Program. The OSBP has an annual budget of $ 2 Million and serves 13,000+ students daily in 175 Ottawa schools. Carolyn is also the Co-Chair of the Ontario Student Nutrition Program Network (link is external) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Planning Council of Ottawa. Carolyn is passionate about working and volunteering with organizations that contribute to building inclusive communities. Most recently, prior to working in Student Nutrition, Carolyn worked with United Way Ottawa and The Ottawa Food Bank focussing primarily on program development and management, fundraising, organizational development and relationship management as well as grant allocations. Almost all of her spare time is spent in the woods on skis or in hiking boots or steering a canoe and preferably overnight in a tent. Nutrition and healthy weightChildren and schools Webinar date: Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 12:00 - 13:00 Attached file: File webinar_ontario.pptx Region: All Canada add a comment Your name Pagal Larka Topic How * FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK #RAD ON TWITTER RECENT DISCUSSIONS AND BLOGS GOODBYE RACHEL! 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