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Ottawa’s Healthy Active Schools Partnership

Ottawa’s Healthy Active Schools Partnership. Healthy Active Schools. Program Overview Goal Structure Implementation Partners in Nutrition Education School partnerships. Healthy Active Schools Program Overview. Goal.

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Ottawa’s Healthy Active Schools Partnership

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  1. Ottawa’s Healthy Active SchoolsPartnership

  2. Healthy Active Schools Program Overview • Goal • Structure • Implementation Partners in Nutrition Education • School partnerships

  3. Healthy Active SchoolsProgram Overview

  4. Goal “To enable children to make healthy choices about food and physical activity on a daily basis, which will reduce their risk for developing chronic diseases and provide them with the skills to develop healthy food and activity behaviors for life”

  5. Why Partner? • Evidence of rising rates of childhood obesity, decreasing physical activity levels and unhealthy eating behaviours prompted us into action. • Education and health sectors accomplish more working together than separately.

  6. Why schools? School environments provide opportunities to improve health behaviours. • Parents • Students • School staff

  7. Structure • Co-ordinating Committee • Steering Committees • Healthy Active School Teams

  8. Co-ordinating Committee • OPH partner • Program Manager • Supervisor • Project Lead • Education partner • Education consultant • Program consultant

  9. Steering Committees • Healthy Active School Team Reps • School administrator • Lead teacher • Parent • Ottawa Public Health Reps • PHNs • Physical Activity • Nutritionist/dietitian • Co-ordinating committee members

  10. Healthy Active School Team • School administrator • Lead teacher (others if interested) • Parents • Students • Public Health Nurse

  11. Participating Schools Phase 1 ( 2005-2006) Phase 2 (2006-2007) • 5 schools 10 schools • 2 English school boards 2 English and 1 French school boards Phase 3 (2007-2008) Phase 4 (2008-2009) • 35 schools58 schools • All 4 school boards All 4 school boards

  12. What Schools Need? • Funding • Resources • Expertise • Time • Support • Champion

  13. What OPH Can Provide • Seed funding • Public health nurses • Expertise

  14. Implementation • Public health nurse meets with school staff • Recruit the champions in the school • Form a Healthy Active School Team • Brainstorm ideas on how to create a supportive and fun environment for healthy living.

  15. Factors for Success • Timing • Commitment • Funding • Human resources • Flexibility • Starting with small changes and build on what already exists

  16. Evaluation • Effectiveness of approach • Conducted focus groups and surveys to steering committee members

  17. Key Evaluation Results • Flexibility and need-based design is essential for schools. • PHN crucial link between education and health and by supporting, facilitating and consulting with schools. • Schools value the Steering Committee meetings as they provide an opportunity for networking and sharing.

  18. Recommendations • Engage students, staff and parents early on in the planning. • Identify and build on policies that support healthy schools at the school board level. • Seek funding that would ensure sustainability and expansion. • Strengthen and build new partnerships on a broad and local scale.

  19. Healthy Active SchoolsPartners In Nutrition Education

  20. Enhancing Healthy Eating And Nutrition Knowledge School teams develop their workplan and focus on ways to: • Identify ways to increase healthy eating opportunities in the school • Solicit community partnerships • Recruit volunteers to assist • Institute programs to increase healthy food choices and education

  21. School / OPH Partnership Healthy Lunch Program • Objectives: Grade 4 students learn how to evaluate the quality of the food choices in their lunch box. They then can become active in encouraging their parents to provide healthy choices in their lunch.Teachers receive: • Lesson plans complementing the curriculum • Student activity sheets • ‘Rate your Lunch’ self-evaluation tool • Nutrition resources for parents

  22. School / OPH Partnership Healthy Hot Meals Objective: Improve the nutritional content of the hot meal programs available in schools. Public health dietitians provide expertise to schools in reviewing their hot meal programs, and suggest healthier alternatives upon needed.

  23. School / Community Partnership Fruit for Friends Program- partnership with a local grocer Objective: Provide a fruit to students that need a healthy snack. A local grocer is involved and provides fresh fruits to the school students. Teachers provide a fruit piece to students on a needs’ basis.

  24. School / Community Partnership Healthy Snacks Program- partnership with the parents • Objectives: • Allow students to exchange healthy snacks for less healthy ones • Provide students that have no snacks at all a healthy option • Once a week, students bring a piece of fruit from home to share with other students. In the school, volunteer parents are responsible for cutting the fruits and distributing the pieces to classes.

  25. Schools / NGO Partnership Breakfast Program Objective:Improve the ability of children to learn by providing a nutritious breakfast in a safe, supervised environment. This partnership promotes community ownership by increasing funds access for schools and helping in the management of breakfast volunteers (adults-run).

  26. Questions?

  27. Thank you! Marie-Claude Thibault, MBA, RD Public health nutritionist Ottawa Public Health marie-claude.thibault@ottawa.ca

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