Bringing Leaders to the Table: Transforming Food in Health and Care Settings
Description
How do we get leaders across the ecosystem on board with public food procurement? It's the question that came up the most in GFPA's first Community of Practice and continues to emerge in our coaching sessions or meetings with many of you.
So we are thrilled to be welcoming Nourish Canada to our second Community of Practice, to answer this very question.
Nourish Canada has been operating for over 10 years, impacting over 20 million meals across health and care settings across the country. This philanthropically funded orgnanisation have an impressive track record of practical action, building skills and meaningfully transforming food in institutions. They will share case studies of leaders across the system driving real change in healthcare food, and how that work shaped their national policy framework. Then we'll dig into practical ways to engage leaders in your own setting.
Speakers
Hayley Lapalme, Co-Executive Director, Nourish. A systems thinker and facilitator with fifteen years' experience working with public institutions. Hayley designed Nourish's national leadership program for health care changemakers. Based on Vancouver Island.
Jennifer Reynolds, Co-Executive Director, Nourish. Two decades advancing sustainable food systems and food policy, including with Food Secure Canada and FoodShare Toronto. Jennifer co-leads Nourish's work helping hospitals embrace food as medicine. Based in Halifax (Kjipuktuk).
Details
Thursday 29 October, 9:00 to 10:30am AEDT
Online via Zoom. Link in your confirmation email.
All welcome. No prior session needed.
Lineup
Hayley Lapalme
Executive Director, Nourish Hayley is an eleventh generation French-Canadian settler, systems thinker and facilitator who has spent fifteen years working with public institutions on pathways to more sustainable futures. She designed and led Nourish’s inaugural national leadership program for healthcare changemakers and serves as Co-Executive Director of Nourish, leading transformational work across community, institutional, and policy scales in food and health systems. Hayley previously started My Sustainable Canada’s mentorship program on public procurement and worked as a writer-broadcaster for the CBC, as a backcountry canoe guide, and as a convenor of farmers, processors, and public buyers across Canada. Drawing on a background in adult education, leadership, and systemic design, Hayley weaves collaborations that rebuild connections to land, health, and each other. Based on traditional and unceded coastal territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking (Songhees) peoples on Vancouver Island, Hayley is a graduate of McGill University and the University of Toronto, where she earned an M.Ed in Leadership, Adult Education, and Community Development. She is mother to Felix and Elio, and a friend to the neighbourhood children who come to her weekly “Parknastics” class.
Jennifer Reynolds
Executive Director, Nourish Jennifer has more than two decades of experience advancing healthy diets, sustainable agriculture, local food systems, community food security, and food policy. A collaborative leader with strengths in strategy, policy, and communications, she believes that aligning mission, mandate, and margin can unlock systems change — and that delicious food can be a catalyst for healthier people and a healthier planet. Throughout her career, Jennifer has worked with farmers, community organizations, institutions, and policymakers through roles with Food Secure Canada, Select Nova Scotia’s Buy Local campaign, and FoodShare Toronto. At Nourish, Jennifer co-leads national initiatives that help health care institutions embrace food as medicine and leverage their influence as anchor institutions to advance health equity, climate action, and community well-being. Working across sectors, she builds partnerships, shifts systems, and strengthens the role of food in creating healthier people, communities, and places. Jennifer lives in Halifax (Kjipuktuk), in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.
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