Canada150: Spotlight on our Collaborating Partners
Happy Canada Day! We asked our Collaborating Partners what they have in store for Canada’s 150th. Read on to learn about some of the exciting child and youth-focused 150 initiatives taking place this year across the Canadian child and youth health and wellbeing sectors. Physical & Health Education Canada Celebrate Canada’s 150th in Ottawa, Ontario and […]
Mark your calendars! National Injury Prevention Day is July 5th
Parachute is excited to introduce National Injury Prevention Day, an important annual recognition day to help build awareness around the devastating impact of injury. Injury is the number one killer of Canadians aged 1 – 44, where one child dies every nine hours. Parachute is launching National Injury Prevention Day to shine a light on […]
The Sandbox Youth Partnership Research Project: Call for Letters of Interest
The Sandbox Project invites Letters of Interest from individuals and organizations that work in research, evaluation and knowledge mobilization to formally collaborate in a project to analyze and evaluate the youth-led initiatives of the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH), and to generate evidence-based promising practices for youth-adult partnerships and youth engagement in the context […]
Public consultation on restricting unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children
As part of the Healthy Eating Strategy, Health Canada is proposing to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children. Over the past decade, there has been growing concern about the negative impact of marketing of unhealthy food and beverages on children’s nutritional health. Health Canada is looking for feedback from all interested […]
PregnancyInfo.ca – New website by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is pleased to announce the release of an exciting new website, PregnancyInfo.ca, to inform women who are pregnant, or planning to become pregnant about the relevant evidence-based information they need for a healthy pregnancy. “This site covers questions from A-Z including important facts on nutrition, vaccination […]
Survey: Physical Literacy Environmental Assessment (PLEA) Tool
This survey is administered by Dr. Brian Timmons and his research team at the Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program at McMaster University. They are developing the Physical Literacy Environmental Assessment (PLEA) Tool, a program evaluation tool for multiple sectors to assess how they are implementing the principles of physical literacy. Physical literacy is defined […]
New UNICEF report: Poor health, violence at alarming rates among Canada’s kids
A new UNICEF report released today highlights the challenges that high-income countries like Canada face in meeting global commitments for children. Canada does comparatively well in some aspects of child and youth well-being, but lags farthest behind other countries in concerning indicators of child health and violence. In Oh Canada! Our Kids Deserve Better, the Canadian […]
Poverty workshops with the Best Start Resource Centre (Ontario)
The Best Start Resource Centre will be holding two poverty workshops in Ontario between October and December 2017. The workshops will be based on the 2017 updated Best Start Resource Centre resource I’m Still Hungry: Child and Family Poverty in Ontario that explores issues of families living in poverty. The two regions will be selected according […]
New CHILD Study paper: Timing of food introduction and development of food sensitization
Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby’s first year may increase the likelihood of a food allergy later on, according to new findings from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study. The research, published in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, found that infants who avoided cow’s milk products, egg and peanut […]
Sandbox150 in Pictures
Sandbox150: Building Healthy Futures took place on June 6, 2017 on Sparks Street in Ottawa. Despite a very rainy day, we had a great time celebrating the individuals and organizations who are working to make Canada’s kids the healthiest they can be.