Source: Collaborative: Indigenous Health Circle, Thunder Bay District Health Unit, Lakehead University, Sustainable Food Systems Lab
Year: n.d.
Historically the Anishinaabe / Anishinaabeg / Anishinabek of the Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior regions used the sun, moons, planets and stars to guide community practices around time, harvesting, gathering, storing and preparing food and medicines. Most common is the use of the thirteen-moons to guide seasonal cycles and community practices.
Source: Reconciling Ways of Knowing
Year: 2020
Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall, Drs. Jesse Popp, Andrea Reid and Deborah McGregor discussed the idea of Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing and other related frameworks for understanding across ways of knowing with moderator Jacquie Miller, MA.
Source: Debbie Martin
Year: 2021
This article presents two-eyed seeing as a theoretical framework that embraces the contributions of both Indigenous and Western “ways of knowing” (world-views). It presents key characteristics and principles of these different perspectives and suggests ways in which they might be used together to answer our most pressing questions about the health of Indigenous people and communities.
Source: Margaret Plack, Ellen Goldman, Andrea Scott, Christine Pintz, Debra Herrmann, Kathleen Kline, Tracey Thompson, Shelley Brundage
Year: 2019
Across the healthcare professions, trainees are expected to provide patient-centered care, and to do so they must develop competence in systems-based practice... Effective systems-based care requires an understanding of the features and characteristics of a “system” coupled with an understanding of how to think about that system, analyze it, and approach enhancing it (Johnson et al., 2008). The foundational construct that needs to be applied in systems-based practice is systems thinking (Johnson et al., 2008; Miles, 2004; Trbovich, 2014). Systems thinking is a body of knowledge, theory, and techniques applied to enhance understanding of the interrelationships among elements, patterns of change, and structures underlying complex situations (Three Sigma, 2002).
Source: Nourish
Year: 2021
On March 23, 2021 Nourish launched the short film, "Why Hospital Food Matters for Reconciliation." We were excited to have nearly 200 people join us to mark this special occasion, followed by a Q&A facilitated by Kelly Gordon (Six Nations Health Services) with panellists Ben Genaille (Interior Health), Raven Crow (Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe'iyewigamig), and Stephanie Cook (Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region).
The launch webinar recording is available here.
The short film is available here in English (https://youtu.be/BUaiR8-FimA) and in French (https://youtu.be/p1HvGR3hy48).
Why does hospital food matter for reconciliation? Health care institutions exert a significant cultural influence in Canada. Like everything else, they are the product of Canada’s colonial history and too often perpetuate systemic discrimination embedded in their policies and practices. This was on display with the horrific death of Joyce Echaquan.
So how can health care institutions use their influence to create change? Food is a good place to start. This film explains how colonialism created an “Indigenous health gap” and how food can play an important role in decolonizing our institutions. It profiles three leading examples of health care institutions practicing anchor leadership by working with Indigenous communities to unlearn colonial ways of operating and by bringing traditional Indigenous recipes, ingredients and ways of knowing into their organizations.
TAKE ACTION to help your healthcare organization to unlock the power of Indigenous foodways by screening this film and getting involved.
Source: National Observer
Date: Feb 2021
A story about her father and his hatred of beets continues to remind Elizabeth Moore why bringing traditional food and teaching to her home of Haida Gwaii is so important.
Source: Yellowhead Institute
Year: 2021
The federal government held two days of meetings in 2021 on developing Indigenous health care legislation. These virtual meetings included some, but not all provincial and territorial health ministers, along with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation representatives, including Indigenous doctors, and was partly in response to the racist treatment and death of Joyce Echaquan of the Atikamekw Nation in a Quebec hospital in September of last year. If and when this legislation materializes, it will be a first in Canadian history. This country has never developed a law around Indigenous health care.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2020
We are pleased to share the new website for the Sustainable Menus Guide for health care!
The outcome of a Nourish national collaborative project, the Guide was designed and written by, and for, health care food service managers and directors.
The Guide helps health care food service managers to make increasingly sustainable menus, one step at a time. The Guide simplifies efforts to reduce the environmental impact of diets, while improving the offering of healthy, affordable, acceptable, and fair food for clients.
The Guide presents research on possibilities for making more socially, environmentally, and economically responsible choices,. The Guide is organized to walk users through menu design process, organized by food category: from soups and main meals to desserts, beverages, and snacks.
Congratulations to the Innovator team who’s hard work and collaboration is behind this guide. They would love to hear how you are using the guide and are available to support its adoption, Contact: info@menudurable.ca
Source: Nourish
Date: 2020
Recruitment for the next Nourish two-year cohort has begun with a team and capacity-building phase that will run for six months, up to the spring 2021 announcement of the selected cohort.
We have prepared a Recruitment Package to support you through this phase, and to help you develop your Expression of Interest (EOI) for the Anchor Collaborative Cohort. Later in the recruitment process, full applications will build upon the EOI, including the request for details on diverse partners and team members who have come on board during the recruitment period.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2020
Nourish is seeking its next cohort for a two-year leadership innovation program that will support health care and community collaborations innovating through food to build health for people and the planet. Join us November 24, 2020 for the recruitment kickoff webinar to learn about the 6-month capacity building program that precedes the cohort selection in spring 2021.
Source: Nourish
Year: 2020
Nourish aims to use the power of food to build health for people and the planet. Our Transition Practice Studies highlight the work of Canadian healthcare institutions innovating food culture and practice to advance this aim.
The City of Thunder Bay procures food in ways that enhance the social, economic, cultural, and environmental well-being of the community.
Read online the full Transition Practice Study and download the Executive Summary.
Source: Nourish
Year: 2020
Nourish aims to use the power of food to build health for people and the planet. Our Transition Practice Studies highlight the work of Canadian healthcare institutions innovating food culture and practice to advance this aim.
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win provides holistic, culturally responsive and appropriate care (minoyawin) through programming and healing practices informed by Indigenous wisdom. Because “food is medicine,” a crucial part of this programming is serving Traditional foods (Miichim).
Read online the full Transition Practice Study and download the Executive Summary.
Source: Nourish
Year: 2020
Nourish aims to use the power of food to build health for people and the planet. Our Transition Practice Studies highlight the work of Canadian healthcare institutions innovating food culture and practice to advance this aim.
CHU Ste-Justine in Montreal, Quebec implemented an on-demand room service model for hospital food services to eliminate food waste and increase patient satisfaction. They reaped the added benefit of enhanced staff satisfaction and the opportunity for sustainable procurement.
Read online the full Transition Practice Study and download an Executive Summary.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2020
Nourish’s vision was selected as one of the 79 Semi-Finalists (from 1319 Visions submitted) in Rockefeller Foundations’ Food System Vision Prize, which asked for organizations around the world to envision “Regenerative and Nourishing Food Futures for 2050”.
Nourish’s work is movement building for reconnection - with land, food, culture, health, and each other. Disconnection from the ecological and social determinants of health has led to a great untethering of our food and health institutions from the abundant natural and cultural systems that give rise to well-being. Nourish dove deep into imagining how reconnection can radically transform the food and health systems in 30 years. We envisioned how social and cultural shifts can impact tastes and behaviour around our food systems, how new data systems can enhance evidence-based investments into the social and ecological determinants of health, and how centering reconciliation and equity work with the most marginalized can lead to abundance for all.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2019
At Nourish's Food for Health Symposium (May 15-16, 2019 in Toronto), the audience was transported to the future of 2030 to be a part of “The Hospital Food Experience from the Future”, where three hospitals collaborated with three “celebrity” chefs to create three ambitious dishes that embody the future of what a patient-friendly, planet-friendly, and scale-friendly hospital meal could look and taste like.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2019
Nourish believes sustainability and equity are interwoven. We convened a group of 21 leaders on traditional Anishinaabe and Ojibwe territory at Wasan Island on Lake Rosseau from Sunday, October 6 - Wednesday, October 9, 2019 for a conversation on how the health and community sectors can collaborate to support and anchor Equitable Access to Sustainable Food for All.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2019
This summary report follows the activity of Nourish from Fall 2015 to Spring 2019. The intent of this evaluation is to help the program staff, lead partners and project advisors examine how the initiative took shape, determine what systems effects were observed, and assess signs of progress towards longer-term objectives.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2019
The short documentary"Miichim" is about Kathy Loon and her team at Sioux Lookout MenoYaWin Health Centre (SLMHC) in Northwestern Ontario and their dedication to serving traditional foods to their Indigenous patients for health and healing.
Source: Nourish
Date: 2019
“Take a close look. You may see a hospital tray... but we see a platform.” This playful one-minute video describes the incredible opportunity that Nourish sees with hospital food as a platform for transformative change.
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