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VON’s Business Case: Integrated Nutrition & Physical Activity
Strategy for Children and YouthAndrew Ward, District Executive Director
& Jillian McCallum, VON’s Ontario Student Nutrition Program, Food and Logistics
Coordinator
Ontario Student Nutrition Program
Currently flow over $2.4 millions in provincial funding to support over 480 school nutrition programs across the South West region.
VON has been testing models to bulk purchase healthy food and deliver it directly to schools to support school nutrition programs.
Meals on Wheels
I In 2013, we turned our MOW into a social enterprise.
I It now operates out of the community kitchen at the Unemployed Help Centre.
We hope to promote access to healthy MOW to more clients in thiscoming year.
Integrated Nutrition & Physical Activity Strategy for Children and
Youth: Model
Physician Referral Program designed to evaluatehealth related outcomes of subsidized food and
physical activity programming.
Clients would receive any of the following:
• Nutrition education program delivered via a mobile team of registered dieticians
• Access to healthy food boxes and/or school meal programs for high risk clients
• Access to Physical Activity Coordinator• Possible access to subsidized recreation programming
Two Possible Approaches
Partnering Physicians:Promote the Good FoodBox among all clients butmay only offer subsidiesfor target clients.
Population HealthApproach: Offer subsidies to generalpopulation simply topromote uptake andevaluate impact for all.