The Northern Health Communities Partnership - Health Eating Team, has two garden towers to give away to schools in Northern Saskatchewan. If you work in a school in Northern Saskatchewan and are interested in championing a garden tower in your school, click on the picture or scan the QR code to apply.
If you have any questions or would like additional information, please email nhcp@saskhealthauthority.ca or fill out the form below.
Saskatchewan Vegetable Gardening Manual
A beginner’s handbook. Everything you ever wanted to know about basic gardening; including how to manage some common concerns and issues.
We’d like to keep you up to date with our Gardening Manual resource!
Submit your email to download the manual and we will send you notifications when we update it. We may also contact you to provide feedback about the manual, so that we can assess and improve it over time.
Standardized Prenatal Education Program: Parts 1 through 5
This program is brought to you by the Healthy Eating Team of the Northern Healthy Community Partnerships, and is aimed at achieving one of their goals which is to standardize prenatal education in northern Saskatchewan. The program offers a 5 Part series including power point presentations, educational videos and group activities (see Grab Bag Activities resource). The resources provided are meant for use by professionals providing education to mothers-to-be and are based on up-to-date and evidence based information provided by the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute’s “Your Pregnancy Month by Month”. They incorporate interactive learning activities and are made to be used in prenatal classes, small groups or one-on-one educational sessions all across northern Saskatchewan.
Certificate of Completion
Prenatal Education Grab Bag Activity
Grab Bag Instructions: Collect items to create your own grab bags for interactive discussions with prenatal moms. Print and laminate the comments about each item for repeat use.
Grab Bag Labels for Parts 1 & 2: Download and print the labels to place on your container that holds the grab bag activities to spark discussion about the developing babies for Parts 1 and 5 of the Prenatal Education Program.
My Birth Preferences
Prenatal women can use this worksheet to think about how they envision the births of their babies. They can take this completed sheet with them when they go in to labour to help communicate their desires.
My Birth Plan
Prenatal women can use this worksheet to help make their plans for labour and delivery.
SUGAR DETECTIVE POSTER
Be a sugar detective! Too much sugar can be bad for you. Unfortunately, sugar can be “hidden” on a food label under many different names. Watch out for these words on the ingredient list.
FOOD OF THE MONTH - EGGS
Did you know? Eggs are a budget-friendly source of high-quality protein? They are also a source of zinc, vitamin A, vitamin D, folate, riboflavin and vitamin B6.
4 Foods High in Iron Poster
Did you know? High iron foods include meats as well as meat alternatives such as beans, lentils and eggs.
Growing Up... Time for an Open Cup Poster
This poster features the image of a 6 month old infant drinking water from an open cup. Drinking from an open beginning at 6 months helps infants with speech development, achieving a healthy weight and reduced the likelihood of cavities. Learning to drink with water helps infants develop health eating patterns and makes for easy clean up as they learn and spill. Share this poster in clinics, early childhood centres and community spaces where parents and caregivers gather to encourage the use of an open cup.
Growing Up... Time for an Open Cup Pamphlet
This pamphlet shares information about how and why to teach infants to drink from an open cup at 6 months of age. Drinking from an open beginning at 6 months helps infants with speech development, achieving a healthy weight and reduces the likelihood of cavities. Learning to drink with water helps infants develop health eating patterns and makes for easy clean up as they learn and spill.