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HIGHLIGHTS
BREAKFAST CLUB OF CANADA
HIGHLIGHTS
Over the course of the year,
the Club’s employees work on
numerous projects and initiatives
to help children access a nutritious
breakfast each morning. It takes a
team to advance our mission. Below
are a few highlights from the past year.
PROGRAMS AND
OPERATIONS
WORKING TO BUILD STRONGER PROGRAMS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Our team of coordinators continued to strengthen
breakfast programs by offering various types of innovative
support to schools to help them run highly effective and
impactful nutrition programs. After two years of pandemic,
our coordinators returned to making in-person visits to
schools to help build relationships with the school staff
running programs, to be able to provide live support
to schools, and to be better able to assess the needs
of school nutrition programs across the country. Our
coordinators visited hundreds of programs during the
last school year and are looking forward to more of these
important visits in the school year to come. As well, our
team has begun utilizing online platforms for webinars,
open houses, training, and working groups to provide
more opportunities to interface with schools and to allow
schools to connect with each other. Sharing stories of
challenges and successes between schools is often a key
piece of support that helps to build stronger nutrition
programs.
The new nutritional guidelines reflect a more global vision
of food, including the food environment and sustainable
food. They aim to enable schools and partners to make
informed food choices.
BREAKFAST CHAMPIONS
Leading up to volunteer week in April, the Programs
team solicited stories from schools across the country
asking them to highlight the breakfast champion in their
school who goes above and beyond make the breakfast
program a reality for students. We were overwhelmed
with responses from hundreds of schools from every
corner of the country with stories of resilience, dedication,
resourcefulness, and a passion to support the students
in their community. For a full week, we showcased these
stories on the Club social channels the share these
amazing stories with our entire network and to thank the
network of dedicated breakfast champions that help to
support students every day of the school year.
NUTRITION GUIDELINES
Breakfast Club of Canada’s Nutrition Committee drew
on school food policies from different provinces as
well as recommendations from trusted sources such
as Health Canada, the World Health Organization, and
Dieticians of Canada to update our nutritional guidelines
to remain aligned with best practices in school nutrition.
These guidelines are an important reference tool for our
procurement team, who develop the various menus that
schools receive from our centralized distribution centre
and serve as a resource for schools and community
partners in their local food purchases.
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