Healthy Food & Beverage Sales in Recreation Facilities & Local Government Buildings Initiative

 

The BCRPA and the UBCM co-led the Healthy Food & Beverage Sales in Recreation Facilities & Local Government Buildings Initiative (HFBS). Branded Stay Active Eat Healthy®, the project featured provincial coordination of supports for local government buildings and recreational facilities to voluntarily adopt the sale of healthy food. It also provided support where recreation centres were either attached to or located near schools, in order to ensure consistency with school guidelines.

The major components were:

  1. Mobilization of key decision makers and building/facility managers to implement HFBS. This will occur through:
  • the provision of best practices and resources
  • regional workshops and in-community work sessions
  • seed grants for planning and implementing HFBS
  • collaboration with industry, government and community organizations
  1. Dissemination of a Municipal Recreation Food Environment Action Toolkit (MRFEAT) for use by local governments, individual facilities and community organizations to support HFBS planning, implementation and policy development

Although the program is no longer active the resources, best practices, and vast array of information on starting a healthy food and beverage sales initiative is still available on the program's website.

 

Click here to visit the Stay Active Eat Healthy® website.

 

View past HFBS grant recipients here.