Webinar on how Ontario SNPs are adapting in a time of COVID
Posted: May 11, 2021
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Join Student Nutrition Ontario and Sustain Ontario for a knowledge exchange session, Nourishing students: How Ontario SNPs are adapting in a time of COVID, on Tuesday, June 1, from 1 – 2:30 p.m. EST.
This 90-minute webinar will focus on how Student Nutrition Programs (SNPs) in Ontario are navigating our current COVID reality to meet the nutrition needs of students.
The following speakers will share their experiences:
- Daniel Hobbs, Student Nutrition Program, Thunder Bay and District: How to reach/identify your virtual learner
- Gerard Capellan, Food and Logistics Coordinator, Toronto Foundation for Student Success: Nutrition Pantry
- Jillian McCallum, VON-OSNP Southwest: School Food Delivery Program
- Angela Fuchs, Student Nutrition Program, Central East Region: Feeding Youth and Families Together – Community Innovations During COVID
After hearing from our speakers, participants will separate into breakout groups to discuss with each other their own challenges or questions, including higher costs, limits on volunteers, distributing to at-home learners, ensuring cultural diversity, local sourcing, and food and packaging waste.
Register to join us here!
Please reach out if you have any questions:
Carolyn Webb, Sustain Ontario: cwebb@sustainontario.ca
Viviane Degagne, Student Nutrition Ontario: Viviane.Degagne@tfss.ca
This is the next webinar in our series on adapting to COVID-19. Recordings of past webinars in the series are available below:
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- April 2020: Food Literacy Opportunities for Children and Youth while Schools are Closed where we heard from Rav Singh and Merissa Nudelman from Ecosource; Derek Brez, a teacher at Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School; Anne Munier from Loving Spoonful; Danielle Findlay from OSNP Windsor-Essex; and Brooke Ziebell from FoodShare Toronto.
- November 2020: School Food Programming in Ontario in a time of COVID-19 where we heard from Sunday Harrison of Green Thumbs Growing Kids, Andrew Fleet of Growing Chefs! Ontario, Leila Mireskandari of Kids’ Growing City, and Elle Crevits of Parkdale Food Centre.
- January 2021: Edible Education Programming in Ontario in a time of Covid – How to Make it Work? where we heard from Janet Nezon of Rainbow Plate, Joanna Heyse of Growing Up Organic , and Airin Stephens of Roots to Harvest.