Community Wellness

Our Community Wellness Department implements a number of important initiatives in Grise Fiord.

Community wellness refers to the overall health, well-being and prosperity of a community as whole. However in addition to encompassing community-specific health needs; it also can empower a community, providing a community-wide support system that is essential to its residents.

Some of the program we facilitate include:

Camps and Traditional Activities

  • We are able to feature a variety of on-the-land activities with the funding that is provided to us as part of the Community Wellness Department

Parents and Tots

  • We are in process of implementing this Program

Kids Summer Program

  • Featured during each summer season

Elders’ Lunch and Elders’ Tea

  • Both are very popular with community elders, often featuring sessions on specific health-related topics

School Breakfast Program

  • Funding is provided to our Umimmak School for daily breakfast for the students

Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP)

  • CPNP is for pregnant, breastfeeding or have infants up to one year old. This includes parents who adopted babies less than one year old.

  • CPNP’s goal is to improve the health of mothers and infants!!

  • CPNP’s aim for Healthy babies at birth, babies are breastfed and babies eat healthy solid foods by age 6 months.

  • Through CPNP, you can have access to enough healthy food to nourish the baby growing inside, learn more about how healthy eating and physical activity help both mother and baby, learn to improve the way they shop for food and how they cook, choose to breastfeed their babies for the best start in life, breastfeed longer, learn how to start their babies on the right food, at the right times.
      

Please email Lisa Kiguktak, our Community Wellness Coordinator, for more information at gfcwc@qiniq.com.