About Us

​​The Coalition for Healthy School Food is the largest school food network in Canada with​ over 381 non-profit member organizations and over 153 endorsers from every province and territory.

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Our vision
A Canada in which every school-aged child and youth has a healthy meal or snack at school daily.

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Our mission
To work with partners in Canada to: 
 

• advocate for a universal, permanent, cost-shared National School Food Program;

• strengthen commitments from provinces and territories, local governments and school communities; and

• support replication, networking and sharing of best practices for the thousands of diverse school food programs and models across Canada.
   

These programs will include food education and serve culturally appropriate, local, sustainable food to the fullest extent possible.

Discover our guiding principles and take a look at what our ideal school food program looks like. 

 

We offer a democratic and participatory structure that is informed by programs on the ground:
 

• Our structure is collaborative and grassroots-based; the Coalition leadership works to engage members and integrate their perspectives into the Coalition’s directions

• Our monthly Steering Committee meetings include representatives from each province

• We host quarterly meetings to engage with and hear from members and we hold other members-meetings and public events for members to network, share info and best practices with each other, and learn about promising practices

• Our provincial Chapters or Advisories self-organize to support local direction and engagement and work to increase their provincial and municipal government’s support and funding of school food programs
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The Coalition is a national network hosted by one of its member organizations, Farm to Cafeteria Canada .