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Grants Help Encourage Healthy Eating

Health and Wellness

The Truro Campus of Nova Scotia Community College is one of 17 publicly funded institutions receiving grants to help people eat healthy food.

Environments where people work, study and play often influence them to make poor food choices. Through Thrive!, the plan for a healthier Nova Scotia, these grants are helping organizations like NSCC change their environments so healthy food choices become more natural and habitual.

"Our entire campus community is inspired by the Thrive! funding received for the healthy eating project," said NSCC Truro faculty member Dawn D'Arcy. "We're looking forward to launching our Healthy Living Strategy and are thrilled with the commitment and involvement demonstrated by our students, campus staff, our food service provider Aramark, and Public Health as we move forward on this initiative."

The Truro campus is using $11,500 to implement its strategy, which includes a nutrition policy, education about healthy food choices and creating a positive social environment for healthy heating.

The grants total nearly $268,000 for publicly funded institutions, which include health authorities, post-secondary institutions, municipalities, and sport and recreation settings such as public arenas and fitness facilities.

They help organizations strengthen or develop food and nutrition policies that make healthy food the default option and decrease the pressure to resist less healthy foods. The money can be used for policy development, supplies and equipment, menu development, training in cooking skills, promoting local food, and other activities that help create a supportive environment for healthy eating.


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The Truro Campus of Nova Scotia Community College is one

of 17 publicly funded institutions receiving grants to help

people eat healthy food.

The campus is using $11,500 to implement its healthy

eating strategy, which includes a nutrition policy, education

about healthy food choices and creating a positive social

environment for healthy heating.

The grants total nearly $268,000 for publicly funded

institutions, which include health authorities, post-secondary

institutions, municipalities, and sport and recreation

settings such as public arenas and fitness facilities.

The grants support Thrive!, the plan for a healthier Nova

Scotia.


Following is a list of healthy eating policy grants for publicly funded institutions:

  • Acadia University, develop and implement healthy food policy, $14,946
  • Dalhousie University, increase access to local, sustainable food, $13,680
  • Annapolis Valley District Health Authority, redesign cafeteria to encourage healthy eating, $15,000
  • Cape Breton District Health Authority, local food and cooking classes, $15,000
  • Capital District Health Authority, healthy snacks campaign, $15,000, and research for a mobile food market, $15,000
  • Colchester East Hants Health Centre, add more healthy options to cafeteria menu $15,000 and evaluate healthy eating policy, $15,000
  • IWK Health Centre, implement healthy eating policy, $15,000
  • South West Health, develop healthy eating policy, $15,000
  • Pictou County District Health Authority, implement healthy food and beverage policy, $15,000
  • Halifax Regional Municipality, examine the current food environment, $15,000
  • Town of Antigonish, develop healthy eating policy for municipal settings, $15,000
  • Town of Oxford, develop healthy eating policy for municipal settings, $15,000
  • Town of Pictou, develop healthy food policy, $6,900
  • Resource Opportunity Centre, develop healthy eating policy in recreation setting, $12,655
  • Active Pictou County, build support to develop healthy eating policy for sport and recreation settings, $13,500
  • Yarmouth-Shelburne Municipal Recreation Association, develop and implement healthy eating policy, $14,800