Our Food, Our Health, Our Culture

Achieving Healthier Weights in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The Our Food, Our Health, Our Culture project will involve 300 families, 20 agencies, 2 schools and 7 retail stores in

• Increasing access to healthy and culturally appropriate foods;
• Increasing access to food literacy; and
• Identify government, school, agency, and household policies to reduce incidence of obesity.

The project emerged out community identified needs and is part of a one year obesity prevention strategy funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and uses a participatory, population health approach.

The project is coordinated by Food Matters Manitoba with co-applicants the University of Manitoba Faculty of Human Ecology and the following partner sites

• Winnipeg’s North End (The North End Community Renewal Corporation);
• Fox Lake First Nation, Manitoba;
• La Ronge, Saskatchewan (Food Secure Saskatchewan).

Visit the Our Food, Our Health, Our Culture Blog.

Partners

• Health In Common
• Immigrant and Refugee Community Organisation of Manitoba
• Child Nutrition Council of Manitoba
• Province of Manitoba Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs
• Province of Manitoba Healthy Living Youth & Seniors
• First Nations and Inuit Health
• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
• Manitoba Alternative Food Research Alliance
• Dietitians of Canada- SK, MB & NW Ontario
• Rural Secretariat
• Food Secure Saskatchewan
• Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region
• South Central Saskatchewan Food Network
• Regina Education and Action on Child Hunger