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Measuring Progress

• More community understanding of preventative health • Reduced instances of disease processes such as cancer
through nutrition and exercise and diabetes

Key Challenges And Concerns

• More fast food options in our community and beyond, the options are usually unhealthy and wasteful
• Disease processes such as cancer and diabetes affect so many of us today, and many factors in our environment continue
to make them worse
• Lacking understanding of healthy personal nutrition among community members
• Nutritious and/or traditional food can be difficult to access
• Physical and financial barriers exist to exercise through sport and recreation options

Suggested Lead Partners

• Health Services • Parks & Recreation • Gane Yohs (Public Health) • New and Emerging
Organizations
• Food Bank • Community Living

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019

Health Services Nutrition program is providing meals in schools and Good Food Box,
Expand community nutrition more human resources needed to grow and expand community understanding in
program how traditional food can build our nutrition, highlight role models and successes in
traditional nutrition.
SHORT Integrate nutrition into
(2019-2024) Community Food Sovereignty Community Food Security Study (see Goal: Food System) to be undertaken should
include considerations as to how individuals are meeting their nutritional needs.
Study and Mapping
Workplace policies for healthy Public workplaces can be developing policies and programs to offer healthy lunch
food options to staff, and creating expectations around healthy options when staff and
public events are catered.
MEDIUM Integrate a community exercise Explore feasibility of a community exercise facility and indoor walking track to provide
accessible and affordable options for members to engage with personal and group
(2025-2029) facility into Dajoh or GPA fitness.
LONG Meet disease care needs within Facility and human resources required to expand chronic disease care and diagnostic
(2030-2039) the community centre to provide a majority of care in our community.

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