Haliburton County Food Net

The goal of the Haliburton County Food Net Working Group is to ensure all residents of Haliburton County are well nourished and have access to healthy food to promote and maintain good health. We believe that all residents of Haliburton County should be able to access food in a way that upholds basic human dignity and that the food is safe, nutritionally adequate, personally acceptable and culturally appropriate. A sustainable food system that maximizes self-reliance and social justice is necessary to reach this goal. In summary, Food Net works together as a not-for-profit community partnership to help move toward community food security.

The Haliburton County Food Net includes representation from:

• Point In Time Centre for Children, Youth and Parents
• Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
• Food For Kids - Haliburton County’s Student Nutrition Program
• Minden Food Bank
• Cardiff Community Food Bank
• Wilberforce Word of Life Food Bank
• Haliburton 4Cs Food Bank & Lily Ann
• Ontario Early Years Centres
• SIRCH Community Services & Consulting
• Community Care Haliburton County
• Sir Sandford Fleming College
• John Howard Society
• Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team
• Social Services Kawartha Lakes - Haliburton

Together our objectives are:

• to be a community-based networking committee, working towards community food security for the County of Haliburton
• to support each member’s food programs by sharing resources, success stories and assisting with challenges
• to adhere to practices of food safety and healthy eating guidelines
• to build personal skills, strengthen community development and create supportive environments related to healthy food
• to advocate for public policies that promote food security
• to raise the awareness of poverty and the social determinants of health in our community

Any approach to truly address food insecurity needs to consider the"big picture" and what can be done to benefit the whole community. Capacity building is most effective when a well-planned, long-term approach is taken. These strategies are most effective when the people in the community are included and involved in identifying solutions.

For more information about Food Net or how to get involved with food programs, please contact Rosie Kadwell, Public Health Dietitian and Chair of Food Net, at 705-457-1391 ext. 238 or by email.

To learn more about how to reduce poverty in Haliburton County, please go to www.hkpr.on.ca/news.asp?id=3079 (if the direct link doesn’t work, go to www.hkpr.on.ca and click on Topics (left hand side) and then Reducing Poverty (right hand side)).

This free web page is provided by FYI Haliburton.