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:

Jordan’s Principle

We recently received funding through the Indigenous Kids Network of Canada under the ‘Jordan’s Principle and the Inuit Child First Initiative’ which allows us to provide monthly gift cards to families with children up to 18 years old, for the distribution of essential childcare items such as essential food, formula, and hygiene-related items.

Children 3 years old and under receive an additional dollar amount each month to help with diapering, and related-needs.

This program is badly needed in our community, where these items can be extremely expensive, yet the needs are very high.

We look forward to the many benefits that this program will bring to our community.

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.