Urban Aboriginal Healthy Living Program

Program Objectives

We want to empower Indigenous individuals to live healthy, active lifestyles by:

• Incorporating healthy eating habits into a traditional diet.
• Increasing knowledge of healthy nutrition and healthy weight management.
• Increasing physical fitness through organized sports and recreational activities.
• Incorporating lifestyle changes, including cessation of commercial tobacco products and developing smoke free environments.
• Engaging youth in leadership programming and positive community activities.

How This Program Works

This program offers support in six different categories to improve overall health and well-being for community members.

• Nutrition – Providing nutrition education, including healthy cooking classes, the benefits of healthy eating and healthy grocery shopping.
• Physical Fitness Activities – Focus on cardiovascular health, including exercises and activities that will increase heart rate and breathing.
• Recreational Activities – Adopting a more physically active lifestyle to enhance physical, mental, and social health.
• Sport Activities – Sports are an opportunity to improve both physical and mental health, as well as social health.
• Youth Leadership – Create comprehensive programs aimed at development of leadership roles for our youth.
• Smoking Cessation/Smoke Free Living – Activities geared toward promoting a smoke-free lifestyle, smoking cessation, support programs for those who have quit smoking and role models for smoke free living.

Other healthy living programs available to community members are Harm reduction kits. If you’d like to learn more, please contact us.