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Animating the Farm to School Movement : The role of community animators in school food systems transformation This program is supported by the Province of British Columbia and the Provincial Health Services Authority

Outline Introduction of Farm to School BC Northwest Region Animation Kamloops Region Animation Closing (Q&A)

Presenters Richard Han Margo Peill Addie de Candole Provincial Northwest Region Kamloops Region Manager Animator Animator BC SD 54, 82 SD 73

Vision & Mission Vision: Healthy, local and sustainable food on the plates and minds of all students in BC Mission: Working with communities and partners, F2SBC seeks to empower and support schools [and communities] in building comprehensive F2S programs that support vibrant, sustainable, regional food systems, develop student food literacy and enhance school and community connectedness

Farm to School BC • F2SBC is a FRAMEWORK that supports food literacy through a collective impact approach of catalyzing and convening sectors interested in achieving the same goal • F2SBC is a NETWORK dedicated to bringing local healthy food into schools • F2SBC is a PROGRAM administered by the Public Health Association of BC and supported by the Province of British Columbia and the Provincial Health Services Authority

Core Elements of Farm to School

Community Animation Schools “Animators place local people at the centre of all they do, believing that sustainable solutions are only ever School developed when the support of a local Farmers District community is strongly evident. Animation is about helping communities to help themselves and empowering the Animators individuals within it to make their community a beautiful place to live and work.” Community Parents Partners Unlocking Potential: A Handbook for Public Community Animators Health Dietitians & Health Authority

Community Animator Recap “Animation is the stimulus to the mental, physical, and emotional life of people in any given area which moves them to undertake a wider range of experiences through which they find a higher degree of self-realization, self expression and awareness of belonging to a community which they can influence” – Report of European Cultural Foundation, 1973 “Animators place local people at the centre of all they do, believing that sustainable solutions are only ever developed when the support of a local community is strongly evident. Animation is about helping communities to help themselves and empowering the individuals within it to make their community a beautiful place to live and work.”

The Art of Animation

Case Study #1 Northwest Region

Garden Box Paradox ● Starting vs. sustaining ● Working with existing assets ● Engaging in broad networks

Support of School Administration ● Building systems change around (i.e. PAC, teachers, School Board) ● showing not telling

Case Study #2 Kamloops Region

From microgreens...

...to garden

Celebrating Learning Kamloops Spring Celebration Curriculum Development Initiative

Questions: Can you apply examples that the Animators provided? How can you be an Animator within your own complex adaptive system?

Farm to School BC Network Regional Provincial Team Hub Animators Capital Regional Hub Addie de Candole Richard Han Provincial Manager Communications Coordinator Marcus Lobb (SD 61, 62, 63, 64) Prov.manager@farmtoschoolbc.ca communications@farmtoschoolbc.c capitalregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca a Kamloops Regional Hub Addie de Candole (SD73) Health Authority Region Leads kamloopsregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca Greater Vancouver Northern BC Greater Vancouver Regional Hub Emilia Moulechkova Vanessa Lam Samantha Gambling (SD 38, 39, 44, 45) Public Health Dietitian Population Health Dietitian vancouverregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca Vanessa.Lam@vch.ca Emilia.moulechkova@northernhealth.ca Nanaimo-North Regional Hub Sunshine Coast Vancouver Island Marcus Lobb (SD68, 70) Janelle Hatch Meghan Molnar nanaimonorthregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca Public Health Dietitian Healthy Schools Coordinator Meghan.molnar@vch.ca Janelle.hatch@viha.ca Northwest Regional Hub Margo Peill (SD 54, 82) Fraser Interior northwestregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca Simone Jennings Nadia Guirguis Population-PH Dietitian Public Health Dietitian Surrey Regional Hub Nadia.Guirguis@fraserhealth.ca SimoneJennings@interiorhealth.ca Claudia Paez (SD 36) surreyregion@farmtoschoolbc.ca

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