Offers programs bringing healthy, local, and sustainable food into schools and provide students with hands-on learning opportunities that foster food literacy, strengthen the local food system, and enhance school and community connectedness.
Other services from Public Health Association of BC
- A free, interactive healthy lifestyle program for families in BC with children ages eight to 12. Participants learn how to build healthy habits together as a family engaging in various activities. Topics covered include healthy eating and healthy body image, p...
Other services from YMCA BC - Lower Mainland Region
- Promotes awareness of ecological farming practices by providing visitors with the opportunity to live and learn on organic farms. Promotes cultural and educational experiences while helping to build a sustainable community. Office hours are 8 am to 3 pm Monday...
- An interactive map highlighting places where people can grow, prepare, share, buy, receive, or learn about food. Food assets include kitchen or food programs, community organizations, free or subsidized grocery, and free or low-cost meal options. Communities t...
Other services from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) - Vancouver
- Aims to advocate for and advance the interests of groups that are generally unrepresented/under-represented in issues of major public concern, with an emphasis on utilities regulation and anti-poverty work. Current area of focus is on addressing energy poverty...
- Presents of Peace ProgramProvided by: YWCA Metro VancouverAllows sponsors to donate Christmas hampers of food, clothing, toys, and grocery gift cards to low-income families in need. Families must have participated in a YWCA Metro Vancouver program within the last year, provide proof of income, have custody of their c...
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- By correspondence, offers a self-paced, distance learning version of the FOODSAFE Level 1 program. Teaches the skills necessary for proper food handling and preparation techniques, as well as how to follow appropriate safety measures to prevent food-borne illn...
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- A BC-based online anti-poverty community for legal advocates, social justice lawyers, and other front line workers who assist the public with poverty or family law issues. Hosts a publicly accessible website with information, resources, and tools, including th...
- Crabtree CornerProvided by: YWCA Metro VancouverCentre offers a wide range of programs for women and families living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Provides transitional housing for expecting and new mothers in recovery, child care, parenting programs, a community kitchen, programs for women who have exp...
Other services from YWCA Metro Vancouver
- Interactive program for mothers and their families living in the Downtown Eastside shares information on healthy eating while increasing food security. Participants learn about nutrition and explore community-building through food. After each session, particip...
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- Vancouver Food Policy CouncilProvided by: City of VancouverMultidisciplinary forum for discussion and action towards building a food system that is ecologically sustainable, economically viable, and socially just. Citizens and government officials work together to examine the operation of local food systems and provid...
Other services from City of Vancouver
- Food ProgramsProvided by: Gordon Neighbourhood HousePrograms include community gardening, meals, educational workshops, and recreational meal preparation. The community urban farms, herb garden, and mobile produce market promote affordable and accessible produce. The Community Lunch is served at 12 noon on Mond...
- An online, self-serve, business-to-business marketplace that connects unsold surplus food to retailers, charities, and processors. The FoodMesh Marketplace allows organizations to purchase, sell, or donate imperfect, close-to-date, and overstock food to recove...
- Provides people with significant physical disabilities the opportunity to become involved in gardening in order to develop skills, build self-confidence, learn, and grow. Office hours are 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday. Affiliated with the Disability Foundation...
- Builds transformative nature experiences for youth ages 14 to 25 to foster community connectedness, build ecological leadership skills, and enhance well-being. Provides free land-based education, wildlife habitat restoration opportunities, peer mentorship, and...
- Aims to improve outcomes for children living in poverty by supporting their single-mothers through trust-based relationships. Volunteer mentors provide respectful, non-judgmental support to other mothers and children, helping to connect women to other mothers ...
- Helps to build a better tomorrow through various services. Education services include ESL classes for new immigrants, scholarships for community-involved students who are pursuing post-secondary education, and yoga class. During tax season, offers free income ...
- Provides culinary training programs. The free eight-week Culinary Training Program teaches occupational and life skills to individuals facing employment obstacles such as physical disability, mental health, poverty, addiction, or homelessness. Readies students...
- Faith-based organization provides a variety of services to the Vancouver Downtown Eastside community. Offers a Community Kitchen where members of the community gather to plan, cook, and eat a meal together. Facilitates weekly drop-in community art times. Also ...
- Provides free primary health care and health information for residents ages 19 and up of the Downtown Eastside and Strathcona area who do not have a primary physician and who have challenges accessing traditional health care services; an intake is required bef...
Other services from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) - Vancouver
- Offers a variety of programs for families. Family Drop-In offers regular programming and access to crafts and activities to children and their caregivers on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Dinner provided. Early Years Drop-In offers workshops a...
Other services from Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House (DTES NH)
- Offers community drop-in programming on Mondays and Wednesdays. Oatmeal served from 10 am to 12:30 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. Free food items offered at the community fridge and pantry located inside the Neighbourhood House on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10...
Other services from Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House (DTES NH)
- Promotes and supports BC farmers' markets. Fosters networking, educates the public, and advocates regarding issues of concern to producers of agricultural products, food products, and crafts. The BC Farmers' Market Trail (bcfarmersmarkettrail.com) provides a d...
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- Not-for-Profit Grocery Market - Downtown Eastside VancouverProvided by: Quest Food Exchange - AKA: Quest Outreach SocietyLow-cost food market providing healthy food at an affordable price while empowering clients to make their own choices about what they purchase. Open to card-carrying clients of a food bank, income assistance recipients, or by referral from a social service age...
- Rescues surplus food from producers and suppliers, and redirects it to local nonprofits and food-insecure households and individuals throughout Vancouver. The Rescued Food Box Program provides weekly delivery of a grocery box to members for $10 per delivery. B...
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