CHAMPLAIN HEALTHY SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN INITIATIVE


 

Overview

This initiative aims to address childhood obesity by enabling children in the Champlain District to make healthy choices about nutrition and physical activity on a daily basis and providing them with the skills to develop healthy food and activity behaviours for life. The initiative will coordinate multiple stakeholders committed to reducing the obesity epidemic in children and youth in the Champlain District. A multi-faceted approach will be adopted which targets school, home, and community environments and uses multiple intervention strategies including policy, social marketing, skills and knowledge training, and environmental supports to achieve its impact.

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Vision

Healthy eating and physical activity are part of our children’s and youth’s daily habits.

 

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Strategy

The Champlain Healthy School-aged Children Strategy includes four action areas (2008-09):

  1. Create progressive, supportive school policies across the nine Champlain School Boards (The Champlain Declaration);
  2. Develop a regional communications campaign to promote healthy eating and physical activity;
  3. Develop an evaluation tool for tracking progress (i.e. Champlain Report Card); and,
  4. Facilitate opportunities for skills development among teachers, parents, children and youth.

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Presentations: April 20,2009

  • Working together for healthy environments & healthy kids                           (Dr. Andrew Pipe) English | French [PDF]
  • Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy Pilot                                              (Dr.  Mark Tremblay) English | French [PDF]
  • Nutrition Tools for Schools©: A Toolkit for Elementary Schools to Create a Healthy Nutrition Environment (Carolyn Froats-Emond) English | French [PDF]
  • KidActive: Building Healthy Kids, Communities & Outdoors (Shawna Babcock) English | French [PDF]
  • Closing Remarks (Dr. Paul Roumeliotis) English | French [PDF]

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Champlain Summit

Over 80 delegates from across the Champlain District gathered at the Hampton Inn in Ottawa on October 15, 2007 as a first step toward a united vision for addressing childhood obesity in the Champlain region.

The Champlain Healthy School-aged Children Summit brought together leaders from the nine Champlain School Boards, four public health units, the recreation sector, health care settings, and the community to begin planning for unified actions in the Champlain District that will improve physical activity and eating behaviours of children and youth. The day-long event offered the opportunity to initiate discussions, share successes, identify potential areas for collaboration, and begin the action planning process.

The Summit was organized by the Champlain Healthy School-aged Children committee, a working group of the CCPN, and includes representatives from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the four regional health units (City of Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Renfrew County, and Leeds, Grenville & Lanark), and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The committee will be reviewing the outcomes from the day and formulating a regional action plan to move forward in the Champlain District.

This Summit is the first of a series of workshops taking place across the province this fall organized by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. These workshops include a summary presentation, prepared by Queen's University, of the key findings from the International Conference on Physical Activity & Obesity in Children held in Toronto in June 2007.

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Background Documents

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Presentations

  • The Champlain CVD Prevention Network: Community Partnerships in Action (Dr. Andrew Pipe) English [PDF 610 KB]
  • What the Research Tells Us: Highlights from the 2007 International Conference on Physical Activity & Obesity in Children (Caitlin Mason) English | French [PDF 3.4 MB]
  • Now What? Implications for the Champlain District (Dr. Mark Tremblay) English [PDF 1.3 MB]
  • The Role of Communications (Dr. Paul Roumeliotis) English | French [PDF 160 KB]
  • The Link Between Health and Learning (Mr. Ted Kennedy) English [PDF 460 KB]
  • "Imagine" Video (Coalition for Active Living) English [Movie File 38,821 KB]

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Photos from the Summit


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Websites

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