Cooking Fun for Families (CFFF)

 

Cooking Fun for Families (CFFF) is a well-established “hands on” cooking program bridging the community and school environments.

CFFF targets at risk school children and their families and assists them with daily issues surrounding food, including dietary quality, accessibility and affordability. The program complements school breakfast and lunch programs by involving parents in activities and discussion about the link between nutrition and health. Since 1999, CFFF has been endorsed and recommended as a core program for at risk families by the Inner City School Advisory Committee of the Vancouver School Board.

CFFF is an ideal addition to any school wanting to address food security issues within the Social Responsibility goals of their Accountability Contracts with the Ministry of Education.  Additionally, for School Districts who now have an early learning mandate  from the Ministry of Education, it is an ideal way to reach families of students that have younger siblings. Not only will the program familiarize these younger siblings with the school environment, but it will also promote the notion of active learning for all family members.

For adults with literacy or language issues, CFFF is a perfect program to help them learn at their own pace in a friendly environment. In this way, the program fits well into the Legacies Now 2010 goal to make BC the most literate constituency to ever hold an Olympics.

The CFFF program goal of “nutrition on a budget” also fits well within the Province’s goal of significantly improving the health of BC citizens by 2010 , and the Provincial Health Authorities Community Food Action Initiative  whose main goal is to help at risk populations increase fruit and vegetable consumption and attain healthy body weights. 

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