In this issue: Pleasure and benefits of gardening with children Our new Web site Featured recipe: Summer Spinach Salad Healthy Start for Active Kids Training in Moncton Request for Proposal: Healthy Start for Active Kids in New Brunswick
The Réseau Santé en Français de la Saskatchewan and the New Brunswick Gymnastics Association are looking for an organization to coordinate and deliver the Healthy Start for Active Kids (HSAK), a bilingual population health initiative aimed at increasing healthy eating and physical activity opportunities in early years settings. Please review the following Request For Proposals. …
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Summer is here and gardens everywhere are growing. If you have a garden, getting children involved in its maintenance is a great way to get them physically active while developing their interest in vegetables and fruits. Here are some benefits of gardening with your children: Gardening is great physical activity! Digging, planting, spreading compost or …
From May 21 to 24, 2019, Healthy Start offered two two-day workshops (one in French and one in English) in Moncton, New Brunswick. Following this training, 18 early years’ practitioners from New Brunswick will now be able to offer the Healthy Start for Active Kids program in the province. Participants were able to enhance their …
We are happy to share the new and improved look of our website. Now it is even easier to interact with the Healthy Start team and our services. Healthy Start offers a variety of training opportunities and resources for educators, teachers and parents. We want you to be able to choose the services and register …
On September 26, 2018, the roundtable Sustaining Healthy Start – Beyond 2020 was held at La Cité universitaire francophone in Regina. This important knowledge sharing forum, organised by the Réseau Santé en français de la Saskatchewan (RSFS), addressed the impact of the Healthy Start/Départ santé (HSDS) initiative and its future. The participants at the roundtable were …
Sustaining Healthy Start – Beyond 2020 is an important knowledge sharing forum about the impact of the Healthy Start/Départ santé initiative and its future. It will offer a creative and synergistic experience for partners, supporters and connectors in the health and early years networks. We hope to engage as many knowledge mobilisers as possible! When: September …
Check out this month’s Healthy Start Sampler to learn how to make stone soup, to meet a Healthy Start Community Trainer, and more!
Last June, Healthy Start held two Booster sessions, one in Saskatoon, on June 26, where we had 18 participants from child care homes, and another one in Consul, on June 28, where we had 4 participants from Reno Rascals Early Learning & Childcare. In Saskatoon, the HSDS Implementation Coordinator for the region, Rebecca Klapwyk, facilitated …
Read moreHealthy Eating and Goal Setting highlighted in the latest HSDS Booster Sessions
Why? To become at Healthy Start Community Trainer. Healthy Start promotes healthy eating and physical activity in early years settings by providing training for early learning and childcare practitioners. If you are interested in learning how to facilitate these trainings, attend this event and become a Healthy Start Community Trainer! What? A training that …
The Association des parents fransaskois (Fransaskois Parent Association) recently welcomed families in their resources centre (CAFÉ La Passerelle) during a parent and tot yoga session hosted by Healthy Start/Départ Santé (HSDS) in Saskatoon. As we all know, there are physical benefits to yoga. Family yoga also encourages the emotional relationship between the child and parent. …
Read moreHealthy Start held a Parent and Tot Yoga Session in Saskatoon
Just because it’s raining doesn’t mean you have to stay indoors. Here are some ways on how the whole family can be active outside on rainy days:
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