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Title: Food4Health
Location:
, Ontario,
Categories: Technology
Education
Health
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Food – from what we eat to how we eat to the way its produced, marketed and disposed of – plays a vital role in sustaining life and promoting health and wellbeing. At the same time, what we eat can contribute to many of the leading causes of chronic disease and illness. Our project aims to provide a bridge between the agrifood and health with a focus on the future leaders in our community: youth and young adults. For youth to be able to take leadership in shaping our food system, it is critical that they have the knowledge to make healthy decisions and both the skills and tools necessary to bring about positive change in their community.
This project is designed to provide a foundation for a chronic disease platform that will create a network of youth engagement projects that will link innovators from different sectors together with youth and young adults to provide leadership opportunities for them to direct health promotion activities in their communities. Rather than develop programs, the Food 4 Health initiative is designed to optimize groups already doing work in the community by providing them with evaluation tools, networking opportunities, and collaboration options to enable them to disseminate their activities to new audiences. It also provides a forum for youth interested in taking action on shaping our food system – from food security, safety and sovereignty issues to tackling diet and nutrition problems – to come together, learn and share their knowledge with each other. Through the TakingITGlobal online community of youth with its 230,000 members, this initiative aims to put food and health into a glocal (global + local) context that is relevant to youth.
Mission:
• To foster an activated, knowledgeable and enthusiastic youth and young adult population committed to promoting health and well-being through food systems transformation involving engaged partnerships from across the agrifood, health, education, and technology spectrum.
Vision:
• A healthy, equitable, and creative Ontario
Objectives:
To connect youth and youth-serving organizations together to provide evaluation, networking and coordination support for a systems-oriented strategy to transform our food system.
Contact Name: Cameron Norman
Contact Email Address: cameron.norman@utoronto.ca
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