New Food Collaborative in Ontario

 

The Ontario Collaborative Group on Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (OCGHEPA), is a provincial not for profit that is looking at the determinants of good health, which includes eating well, physical activities, and includes access to food.

Its mission is to improve the health of all Ontarians by advancing healthy eating and active living initiatives through strategic partnerships, knowledge exchange and collective action.  Our vision for 2015 is an Ontario that supports healthy eating and active living for all.

The Collaborative have been working together for the past few months and will start to formulate the organization’s principles.  They have identified the priority areas and will be working with stakeholders in the near future.

Visit the OCGHEPA is working on the following priority areas:

• Making Ontario the healthiest province
• Developing an Ontario food and nutrition strategy
• Improving access for all Ontarians to healthy food and physical activity opportunities
• Using the 2015 Pan Am games as an opportunity to promote healthy eating and active living
• Childhood obesity
• Food security
• Healthy eating/physical activity in school
• Built environment