Twice a year, South Riverdale Community Health Centre and Ralph Thornton Centre do a “Community Canvas”. We go door-to-door to talk to local residents.

Help us let people in the neighbourhood know what programs, services and community campaigns are going on. If you want to do the community canvas but not sure what to say to people at the door…

Come to our informative and fun training session on

Thursday, June 10, 2010

5:30 – 7:00 pm

South Riverdale Community Health Centre

955 Queen Street East (the A/B room)

Snacks provided

RSVP to Susan at (416) 461-1925 ext 353.

Training session for volunteers on Thursday, June 10th from 5:30 -7:00pm

We are a team of people who live or who work in the South Riverdale neighbourhood. We are building a stronger, healthier community through fun, education and mobilization for change! We do outreach, sing, draw, write, have planning meetings and connect with other groups who care about the same issues. There is something for everyone!

Our current focus is to make sure that everyone can afford to eat healthy food. That is why we are active in the Put Food in the Budget Campaign! We are fighting for a Healthy Food Supplement of $100.00 for all Social Assistance recipients.

We are also working on ways to make Toronto’s transit system affordable.

Come and get involved!! We always welcome new members and ideas!

Contact Susan Bender ext. 353

The Healthy Eating for Life initiative is a first of its kind, rolled out by six charitable organizations in Ontario: Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Canadian Diabetes Association, Carefirst Seniors and Community Services Association, The Kidney Foundation of Canada, South Riverdale Community Health Centre and Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care. Both Chinese and English healthy and easy-to-prepare recipes have appeared in the Wednesday supplement The Gourmet Guide of the Sing Tao Daily from June to December, 2009.

The ultimate goal of this initiative is to promote healthy eating in a fun and culturally relevant manner as a way to help prevent and better manage chronic diseases in the Chinese community.

This project could not have been implemented without the generous support of Sing Tao Daily, Focus Communications Inc. and NICE Design & Advertising Inc.

Click here to access the collection of recipes that have been published in the The Gourmet Guide.

「健食養生」食譜是安省六大公益機構首創的合作計劃，致力推廣新一代的健康飲食文化，加強公眾對健康飲食能夠預防及控制長期病患的意識。主辦機構包括安省心臟及中風基金會、加拿大糖尿病協會、耆暉會、加拿大腎臟基金會、南河谷社區健康中心及頤康中心。

「健食養生」食譜計劃能夠順利推出，實應多謝以下機構的專業指導和慷概支持，包括有星島日報、Focus Communications Inc. and NICE Design & Advertising Inc.

通過點擊下面的連接 (here)，你可選擇由六大公益機構提供的健食養生」食譜。這些食譜曾附印在星島日報隨報附送星島美食GUIDE周刊内 (2009年) 。

The partners:

Click here for a letter to South Riverdale Community Health Centre's clients about H1N1 Influenza.

Resources

* Flu Facts

* Flu Symptoms

* Flu Facts for Pregnant Women

* How to Stay Healthy

How to Prevent the Spread of Germs

* Sleeve Sneeze

* Hand Washing Technique

* Cover Your Cough

At South Riverdale Community Health Centre, we conducted a waste audit and developed effective waste management practices to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Click here, to see how we did it.