Healthy School Communities
The primary objective of the Community Food Security and Food Education Program is to increase the amount of fresh local food on menus in schools and/or licensed early childhood centres.
Other objectives are to:
promote good nutrition and healthy food...
The Prince Edward Island Home and School Federation has developed a website called Help My Child for parents and students regarding cyber bullying, substance abuse, mental health, physical health and many other topics. Help My Child features contact...
The Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH) supports comprehensive school health initiatives across Canada. Its members include health and education representatives responsible for school health from each province and territory (except...
School breakfast and snack programs encourage healthy eating, ensure students come to class prepared to learn, and support positive nutrition habits which help improve academic achievement.
Each week, over 600 school staff and community volunteers...
SHAPES is a student health behaviour survey which asks all students in grades 5-12 about their lifestyle behaviours related to healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, as well as mental fitness.
SHAPES is conducted every two...
The School Health Grant (SHG) supports school-level health promotion programs and initiatives. The SHG supports the health and well-being of students, complements the health and physical education curricula, reinforces healthy school policies, and...
School nutrition policies play an important role in creating healthy school environments and in supporting healthy lifestyles of children and youth; both of which support student success and academic achievement.
School boards have school nutrition...
Triple P uses simple, positive tips to help Prince Edward Island parents and caregivers face the typical challenges of raising children and teens.
This Positive Parenting program offers various levels of support to parents including a stay positive...
Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
Health Promotion is strongly linked to the global challenge of non-communicable disease, also known as chronic disease. It situates health as a...