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The Waterloo Region Baby Friendly Initiative Advisory Group works to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in Waterloo Region.

Our membership includes midwives, nurses from local hospitals, La Leche League leaders, lactation consultants, the peer breastfeeding program coordinator, staff from the public health field, doulas, breastfeeding mothers, and nurses from local family health teams.

We work to ensure breastfeeding is protected, promoted and supported through the following activities:

* Networking and sharing among those interested in breastfeeding friendly policy
* Public Education
* Advocacy for breastfeeding friendly policy development in public and private spaces; and by providing support to groups willing to champion breastfeeding friendly policies within their sector.

A new group in Cambridge, we have joined the international Transition Town movement which asks the question: How do we significantly increase resilience to eliminate the effects of Peak Oil and drastically reduce carbon emissions to mitigate the effects of Climate Change?

FoodNet Ontario maintains a searchable database of food security-related programs and initiatives available in various towns, cities, and regions throughout Ontario. They are run by individuals, communities, and organizations large and small. As a member of FoodNet Ontario, you will be given the opportunity to add your program to the database through a simple online form. Once vetted by our staff, it will go live for all to reference.

The National Farmers Union is the only voluntary national farm organization in Canada which is committed to:

•ensuring family farms are the primary unit of food production;
•promoting environmentally-safe farming practices;
•giving farm women equal voice in shaping farm policy;
•working for fair food prices for both farmers and consumers;
•involving, educating and empowering rural youth for a better future;
•building healthy, vibrant rural communities;
•ensuring an adequate supply of safe, nutritious food for Canadians.
The family farm is the cornerstone of the system that provides safe, nutritious food to Canadians. City people, as well as farmers, have a stake in it. The National Farmers Union is unique among farm organization in working for people's interests against corporate control of our food system.

The National Farmers Union is a direct-membership organization made up of Canadian farm families who share common goals. Every member of the farm family - including the farmer and their spouse and children, ages 14 to 21 - are full voting members of the Union. This structure recognizes that every family member contributes to the farm by working on it directly, or indirectly through off-farm employment.
Associate Members are a valued part of the National Farmers Union family as well. Associate Members are non-farmers who understand that food issues are everyone's concern, and who want to help family farmers build a sustainable and nutritious food system in Canada.

ACWI is a process of dialogue and action taking place at the community level and system level with a focus on promoting holistic wellness in local African immigrant and refugee communities.

ACWI has grown out of a series of conversations initiated at the grassroots level and among cultural and system leaders about a wellness initiative that;
a) is community led and build on cultural community capacity,

b) will enhance dialogue and decrease silos among cultural community leaders and system leaders,

c) will increase grassroots participation in animating and implementing solutions to the issues that affect the holistic wellness of the African immigrant communities.

Most recently ACWI is active in working collaboratively with government agencies and grassroots groups in promoting immigrant participation in urban agricultural practices. We are excited to be involved in the creation of Patchwork Community Gardens, two new inclusive community gardening spaces in the Waterloo Region.

ACWI’s engagement of the local food growing system is based on the conviction that a healthy reconnection to the land is a promising cultural practice for addressing the root causes of food insecurity and poverty, and increasing the experience of holistic wellness among African immigrant communities in the Waterloo Region.

TransitionKW is part of a larger worldwide Transition Town movement that was started out of concerns about peak oil and climate change. It was largely started by a permaculturalist by the name of Rob Hopkins who saw localizing the food supply as an important component of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (CCGHC - the Coalition) is an alliance of committed Canadian health service organisations, associations and environmentally focused business associates that promotes the adoption of environmentally friendly and sustainable health care service delivery to complement the compassionate delivery of health care. We are a nationally incorporated not-for-profit organisation.
We encourage the adoption of resource conservation, pollution prevention principles and effective environmental management systems to reduce the Canadian health care sys­tem’s ecological impact while protecting human health.
The Coalition collaborates with health care organisations, facilities, and professionals, governments and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and others to raise awareness of this issue and to increase the capacity of the health care sector to address its environmental issue

From raspberries to cornmeal, sweet potatoes to popcorn, and cheeses to cookies, we can help you find the local foods you are looking for. Become a member of Bailey's Local Foods with weekly online ordering from May to October and monthly online ordering from November to April.

Garden Party is at the forefront of a series of alternative food ventures that promise to build stronger and more inter-dependent communities using food as the medium. This unique, integrated food hub, operates a an organic CSA farm, buying club and PYO flower farm. We also offer consulting services to both public and private sector partners interested in developing healthier food systems and a variety of educational courses and events. Whats for our new home canning club coming in 2011!!

Our regular meetings are primarily friendly forums to present research and exchange ideas and announcements with the aim to create opportunities for synergies and linkages between us.
Most of our meetings are for current grad students and faculty members. Periodically we have public forums that are advertised for the community at large to attend. These are announced through WRFoodNews.

We see this group as an opportunity for very local, neighbourhood-based action on food security and other issues. In 2012 we are holding monthly discussion groups on various topics. In February 2011 meeting we had 35-40 people discussing
Community Building Ideas
Community Gardens
Community Resource Mapping/Street Audit
Creating an Inclusive Process/Attracting More People to our Initiative
Meal Support Group
Neighbourhood Cafe
Road Salt

To join the mailing list, email transition-mt-hope-mary-allen@googlegroups.com

Established in the early 1980s, COG Perth-Waterloo-Wellington was one of the first chapters of the organization. From its beginning through to 2003 the local chapter organized educational events and farm tours.

From 2003 to 2009, COG PWW ran Diversity Gardens, an organic demonstration farm. The gardens functioned as a site for workshops, a market, and pilot projects. The chapter continues to offer workshops, resources and other support to advance organic agriculture and organic food consumption in PWW.

COG PWW has formed several partnerships over the years with like-minded groups. In 2004, we were a founding organizer with Foodlink in launching the first Taste Local, Taste Fresh event in Waterloo region. In 2006, we participated in consultations as one of the founding organizations for what would become the Waterloo Region Food Systems Roundtable. At the provincial level, we support a common voice for the organic sector by being a memeber of the Organic Council of Ontario.

An association of Waterloo residents working for the advancement of small-scale urban chicken-raising.

Region of Waterloo Public Health, like all Public Health departments across Ontario, has a mandate to try to prevent chronic diseases by promoting (among other things) healthy eating and physical activity. We know that telling people which foods are good for them is not enough, so we have been supporting food system work for over a decade, engaging the community in asking questions about our food system and working towards changes that will make healthy food choices the defaults.