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About the Project
This page gives you some general information about our toolkit and training. This webpage is a work in progress so check back often for updates.
What are you creating?
We are working to create a toolkit and training for Ontario’s service providers around the issue of preventing obesity in Ontario’s First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children.
Our toolkit includes:
 Simple and colourful resource cards to help parents get information about topics that interest them quickly and easily
A DVD with interactive and interesting MP3s and videos for Aboriginal families and service providers, covering a wide range of topics
An activity book for young children, to help them learn more about nutrition and physical activity from an Aboriginal perspective
A set of three colourful books for Aboriginal parents and families that cover a wide range of topics. The three books are called:
One book for service providers called Prevent Obesity in Your Aboriginal Community: A Guide for Service Providers
We’re delivering our interactive training in six locations across Ontario in 2010. Training is for service providers and happens over two-day sessions in the following locations:
Sudbury: August 17 and 18 (registration is almost full)
Toronto: August 24 and 25 (this session for Head Start staff only, please email kkirley@nativechild.org if you’d like to ask about registering)
Dryden: September 1 and 2
Six Nations: September 27 and 28
Ottawa: October 6 and 7
Thunder Bay: September or October
If you are a service provider in Ontario and unable to travel to these sessions, we’re also doing web-based training sessions in September and October. There is a fee to attend the training sessions, which covers the cost of your toolkit. Please email Melanie Ferris if you would like to stay updated about the training
Why are you creating this?
We’re working to create this because obesity is a growing problem in Ontario’s Aboriginal communities. We want to help service providers find a way of helping Aboriginal people combat this problem by providing them with information that our communities will find useful.
You can read more about obesity and Aboriginal children by clicking here.
Are there any training opportunities or information sessions?
We are busy developing the toolkit and training. Keep visiting our website for updates on training.
We’re travelling across Ontario to promote our toolkit and get feedback on ways of improving it. Please email us if you would like to meet with us.
“These are the things we used to play, dog team race, igloo-building race, and ball. We used to play these, and at night we’d play wolf, uatanianaqtu, and juggling in the spring. These things are what we played and used during our leisure time. And in the spring we would have a pretend tent and just outside it a sod house and we would fix the bedding. We used to enjoy playing like this. We would celebrate by getting together, by dancing. People would come to celebrate. It was a happy time when children were born. There would be games. When there was a birthday there would be running races, or playing ball, or they would get together and eat because they were so happy. That’s what we did.”
Inuk Elder Rachael Uyarasuk, from In the Words of Elders (1999), pg 261
Health Nexus acknowledges funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
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