CFCC Webinar: Good Food Rules! Nudging people towards healthier eating in nutrition education programs
Posted: July 22, 2013
Categories: News from Sustain Members
From Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC):
Join Community Food Centres Canada on Wednesday July 24th from 11a.m. – 12p.m. EDT for a webinar conversation with Dr. Mike Evans and Kathryn Scharf on how to work to help people move from knowledge to action in the area of healthy eating. Referencing research and experience from the doctor’s office to community food programs, the webinar will cover topics that include: barriers to healthy eating, motivational interviewing, group goal-setting and using fun, hands-on skill building approaches. Discussion will focus on what a common-sense approach to healthy nutrition looks like, one that helps to empower people to take control of their food, even within socioeconomic constraints and a world full of confusing research, advertising messages and poor food environments. Setting objectives and techniques for creating positive feedback loops by measuring change will also addressed.
When: Wednesday July 24, 2013 11am-12pm EDT
Where: Your Computer – Register at CFCC’s Webex page
How Much: Free!
About the presenters:
Dr. Mike Evans is a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, Director of the Health Design Lab, and Visiting Creative Director at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge. He runs a new kind of lab that fuses “creatives”, such as film-makers and designers, with leading clinicians. His YouTube video “23 and ½ hours” has been seen by over 4 million people since it was posted in December, 2011. He has started a medical school for the public (Mini-Med School @ U of T), written an award winning kids book (the Adventures of Medical Man), and is the syndicated house doctor for CBC weekend morning radio. In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Social Media at the Web Health Awards and he was chosen a Zoomer top 45 Canadians over 45. He lives in the Annex area of Toronto with his family of five who all play hockey, and is currently launching a YouTube Medical School for the public.
Kathryn Scharf is the Vice President, National Programs at Community Food Centres Canada. Prior to helping to launch this new organization in 2013, she spent 7 years as Program Director at The Stop, the founding partner of CFCC, where she helped to develop the community food centre program model and the strategy to take the model to a national scale. Kathryn has worked for 18 years in the community food security sector in Toronto from many vantage points: from grassroots work in with community kitchens and alternative food distribution through to program development and initiatives aimed at changing systems through food policy and action.