NSTEP

NSTEP provides hands-on nutrition and physical activity education to children teachers and families across Canada. We strive to promote positive change in the health of our communities through active learning. We are an education hub of scientific evidence based knowledge that focuses on teaching healthy habits for children for life. We want their brains to be powered and nourished through healthy eating and physical activity. Nutrition and activity build better brains and bodies. NSTEP is different than other health promotion programs in its success at being accepted integrated and supported by school staff and administration at all levels of the education system. Our program is sought after by teachers because it provides curriculum and activities that teaches children and youth how to build communities inside the places they spend the greater part of their lives. The program provides opportunities to: -Connect children in different school levels with each other -Provide older children a vehicle to mentor younger children -Provide examples of actions they can do to meet these goals -Provide teachers with research supported methods to address nutrition and healthy living within the prescribed curriculum -Provide administrators a research supported method of incorporating wellness across a wide population of ages and abilities -Fraser Health BC Medical Health Officer has endorsed NSTEP as an approved program/initiative school nutrition resources -Interdisciplinary approach with well qualified NSTEP coordinators with backgrounds in education kinesiology nursing human ecology and dietetics -Online in person program delivery for knowledge transfer