CommunityLINK

CommunityLINK District Advisory Group: This group meets with the ministry CommunityLINK coordinator to discuss CommunityLINK policy, practice and reporting.

The Advisory Group is made up of representatives from five regions:

• Interior
• Lower Mainland
• North
• Southeast
• Vancouver Island

As advisory group positions become available, the ministry requests school districts from the surrounding region to suggest a new regional representative.

Resources

The School Meal and School Nutrition Program Handbook (PDF, 10.37MB) is intended to support school meal coordinators, school administrators, caterers, and other who are involved in providing healthy food and beverages at school to vulnerable students. The handbook includes:

• general operational information and resources;
• guidelines for serving healthy foods;
• sample menus and healthy substitutions;
• promising practices for feeding vulnerable students.

The handbook replaces the guidelines for school meals programs that were contained within Investing in all our Children: A Handbook of Social Equity Programs (1996). The guidelines and nutrition information included in the handbook are consistent with and are designed to support the Guidelines for Food and Beverage Sales in BC Schools.

Additional copies of the School Meal and School Nutrition Program Handbook are available from:

Crown Publications, Queen’s Printer for British Columbia

Please quote catalogue number RB0205 when ordering, the price is $8.62 + GST. 

Promising Practices

	Summary of 2008/09 CommunityLINK Report School District Identified Promising Practices and Evaluation Tools (XLS, 31KB). As part of the 2008/09 CommunityLINK reports, many school districts shared information on innovative CommunityLINK practices and evaluation tools that are utilized in their districts. For more information on specific examples contained within this document, please contact the CommunityLINK Coordinator: EDUC.DiversityandEquity@gov.bc.ca
Partners
	Breakfast For Learning BC This nonprofit organization provides direct support to BC schools for food and equipment for breakfast and snack programs. The maximum available grant is $2,000 per school per year. For application deadlines please see the website.
	BC Dairy Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, funded by the dairy farmers of British Columbia, that delivers leading edge nutrition education programs to students in BC schools. In addition, BC Dairy Foundation runs the Elementary School Milk Program, which provides resources to schools who serve milk to their students. Currently, free refrigerators are available to new schools joining the Elementary School Milk Program.
CommunityLINK Research