A report prepared by Erin Nelson for the VON Canada, Erie St. Clair District.

Through the summer and fall of 2012, the VON engaged in conversations about Student Nutrition Program challenges and opportunities with a variety of partners in Windsor-Essex, including Windsor’s Unemployed Help Centre (UHC) and the local public and Catholic school boards. Those conversations led to the implementation of a 14-week pilot project that was launched in February 2013. Supporting 114 classrooms across 6 schools (3 in Windsor and 3 in Essex County), the pilot project partnered with an innovative high school co-op program based out of the UHC, and focused on using central procurement as a way to streamline food purchasing for school nutrition programs. Read the entire report here ( pdf 1.2 mB).