Newcomer Nutrition Education Toolkit
Healthy Eating in the Community, Healthy Eating Starts Here

This toolkit supports program providers and health professionals who work with newcomers to Canada. It is a collection of nutrition teaching resources for people with basic English literacy and diverse cultural backgrounds.

Presentations

• Drinks in Canada (notes pages)
• Eating for Good Health (notes pages)
• Grocery Shopping (notes pages)

Displays

• Drinks in Canada (Facilitator’s Guide)
• Meals to Go (Facilitator’s Guide)

Pictorial and Translated Handouts

Healthy Eating

• Five Keys to Safe Food (WHO, Available in 88 languages)
• Foods with Fibre Pictorial
• Heart Healthy Foods Pictorial
• What’s for Lunch? - also available in Arabic | Punjabi | Simplified Chinese | Traditional Chinese

Babies and Children

• Safe Preparation of Infant Formula from Powder - also available in Arabic | French | Punjabi | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Traditional Chinese
• Safe Preparation of Infant Formula from Liquid Concentrate - also available in Arabic | French | Punjabi | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Traditional Chinese
• Starting Solid Foods: Around 6 months - also available in Arabic | French | Punjabi | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya ] Traditional Chinese
• Feeding Guide: Starting Solid Foods  - also available in Arabic | French | Punjabi | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Traditional Chinese
• Iron Foods for Children Ages 1 and Up Pictorial
• Snacks for Children Pictorial

Videos

AHS Cooking Basics Videos

• Vegetables
• Fruit
• Easy Recipes

Health Canada Videos

• Making healthy meals with the Eat Well Plate
• Health-related video gallery
• Raising Our Healthy Kids Videos

Feedback

We would like to hear what you think about the Toolkit.

We want to hear from newcomer-serving agencies or health professionals in Alberta who have used the resources in theToolkit. If you would like to participate in a phone call interview, contact publichealth.nutrition@ahs.ca for more information.

We want to hear from newcomers in Alberta who participated in one or more presentations or events using the Toolkit. We would like to talk with them in a focus group at your agency. If you and the newcomers you work with would like to participate in a focus group, contact publichealth.nutrition@ahs.ca for more information.