10 RESOSANTE

Four Health Projects Start Up
in British Columbia

Following the call for tenders by Société Santé en francais, three organizations
received funding to include French language health programming in their
regular activities:

e La Boussole

e The Fédération des parents francophones de la Colombie-Britannique

e Provincial Language Services

RésoSanté and the Centre of Integration for African Immigrants obtained funding
for two years from the Public Health Agency of Canada. These funds will help to
develop healthy life skills among immigrant families through the creation of
community kitchen, food bank and physical activity projects.

These four projects are in addition to the basic RésoSanté programming that
already covers several topics related to health promotion, service organization
and human resource development.

Beneficial Partnerships

RésoSanté and its partners (Société de développement économique de

la Colombie-Britannique, Fédération des parents francophones de Colombie-
Britannique, Inform’Elles Society and Educacentre College) participated in
three very successful events this year:

A rallying event on post-traumatic stress disorder (March 2011)
The conference by Dr. Pascale Brillon was a great success: it was
attended by 45 satisfied participants.

The launch of the LEAP BC program (March 2011)

LEAP BC was launched at Centres d‘appui a la famille et a V'enfance (CAFE)
[Family and Childhood Support Centres] in March 2011. It offers early
childhood training on diet, physical activity and language development.
The training is aimed at parents and educators.

The Vancouver Wellness Show (February 2011)

Thanks to the support of the Société de développement économique de

la C.-B. and RésoSanté, five groups of Francophone health professionals
presented their services and non traditional medical services to the general
public in Vancouver. The three day event covered all aspects of wellness
and attracted more than 30,000 visitors.

RésoSanté would like to thank its partners and Health Canada for their support.

COLOMBIE-BRITANNIQUE

Community dinner at the Centre of Integration
of African Immigrants.

Mr. Roger Farley, Executive Director of Health
Canada’s Official Language Community
Development Bureau, Ms. Pauline Gobeil,
President of the Fédération des parents franco-
phones C.-B. and Ms. Claudine Cété, Director
General of Société Santé en francais, attended
the launch of the LEAP BC program.

RésoSanté attended the Wellness Show.