Preventing Chronic Diseases supports communities with their approaches to preventing chronic diseases. Areas we focus on include food sovereignty and security, diabetes, mental wellness, heart disease, and cancer. We are also exploring our role in advocacy to help reduce barriers to Mino Bimaadiziwin through changes to law and policy impacting how food is gathered and sold.
Services
- Health promotion and education on diabetes, grief, trauma, and mental wellness.
- Provide guidebooks and mentorship on starting community gardens, raising chickens, creating food education programs.
- Support the implementation of community-run workshops on youth cooking skills (You’re the Chef) and food exploration (Taste Adventure)
- Deliver trainings and workshops on mental wellness, including Mental Health First Aid First Nations, Suicide prevention / Life promotion, and Healthy relationships
- Support community-led project planning and proposal writing
- Provide funding for food gathering and school nutrition program equipment
- Host knowledge sharing gatherings for workers and helpers
- Advocacy addressing policies and laws impacting food sovereignty and food cost
Links
Food Security Environmental Scan
SLFNHA Community Garden Implementation Guide
Small Animal Husbandry: Laying Hens & Community Egg Production Models
Tobacco Use and Vaping Cessation (Quitting or Reducing Use) – Information and Handout
Commercial Tobacco/Vaping Cessation – Social Media
Testicular Cancer Self-Exam – Handout with Translation
Breast Cancer Screening Fact Sheet
Cervical Cancer Screening Fact Sheet
Our Programs
NFVP provides fresh produce each week from January to June for elementary students, with an emphasis on Ontario-grown produce. It helps school-aged children to like, accept, and eat fruit and vegetables and encourages active living and healthy lifestyles. Our team connects schools to the North Western Health Unit and their provincially funded program. If your school needs to be connected to this funding which provides fresh produce and equipment for the delivery food programs, please contact …
YTC is a fun-filled four-session program that teaches basic cooking and food handling skills. We train YTC leaders (volunteers, educators, and/or school community members) to run the program in a school or community setting. The training and teaching resources are free, but schools must purchase their own ingredients.
Please contact … for more information about training opportunities.
Taste of the Land is an engaging workshop that takes participants on a sensory journey, exploring the five senses using food-related activities. The activities include taste tests, scent explorations, sound-guessing challenges, and tactile experiences. Each station activates one sense at a time and was adapted by local indigenous voices to have more land-based content in the activities. The program originally came to us through Roots Community Food Center in Thunder Bay.
The manual and training for this program are free, but facilitators must purchase their own teaching kits.
For more information about this program, please contact ACWinfo@slfnha.com toll free: 1 (866)-337-0081
