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Each year, the Thunder Bay District Health Unit Oral Health Team visits elementary schools across the district to screen children in selected grades. This team consists of a Registered Dental Hygienist and a Dental Health Educator. The hygienist does a visual check of the child’s mouth to identify…
Car seats help save children’s lives. However, to prevent serious injury, car seats must be the right size for your child, installed correctly and purchased in Canada. Car seats bought from other countries (including the United States) are not legal to use in Canada because they haven’t met Canada’…
Fall prevention is critically important, especially as our population ages. An estimated 1 in 3 people in Canada over the age of 65 experience a fall every year. This can lead to serious, debilitating injury and in some cases death.
Lower your fall risk with this resource on Adding Movement…
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) plays a lead role on the Snowmobile, ATV, Vessel Education (SAVE) Committee, a regional initiative designed to:
Promote awareness, education, and enforcement of safe ATVing, boating and snowmobiling throughout Northwestern Ontario to reduce…
Stephanie Maki & Jackie Rink, Family Home Visitors
Family home visitors (FHVs) from the Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program added food skills education into the services they offered to families in 2015 thanks to a one-time grant from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. As…
Babies learn from the time they are born by listening and interacting with the sounds and voices that surround them. The ability to hear is an important sense for brain development and helps newborn babies to learn beginning speech and communication skills. If a baby is born with hearing loss…
At birth, a baby’s vision is blurry and unfocused. Babies can detect light, shapes, and movement, and they can just make out the face of the person holding them. A baby’s sense of sight will develop gradually over the first 6 to 8 months of life. Regular eye exams with an optometrist,…
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Keep it simple! Focus on changing one lifestyle habit at a time. As that becomes routine, build in another goal that helps you reach the overall lifestyle you are aiming for.
Stay positive! Believe in yourself that you can achieve your healthy lifestyle goals. If you have a…
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit plays a lead role on the Community Traffic Awareness Committee (CTAC), a community-driven coalition dedicated to:
Reduce injury and death related to the road (traffic)
Improve road (traffic) safety through education, public awareness, advocacy and…
What is Distracted Driving?
Distracted driving is any activity that can divert a person’s attention away from driving. According to researchers, distracted driving comes in 3 distinct forms:
Visual distraction: Taking one's eyes off the road
Mechanical: Taking one's hands off the wheel…
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Include cross-curricular connections in the classroom
Use hands-on learning strategies to engage students in the learning process
Spread healthy eating lessons throughout the year
Explain the facts about healthy eating using current and credible…
In School Implementation
To administer the NFVP in participating schools, annual Implementation funds are provided to participating schools. These funds can be used to cover:
The cost of supplies and small food equipment
Food literacy and physical activity resources that support your school…
The perishable fruits and vegetables must be refrigerated in the designated snack refrigerator upon arrival to your school and must remain refrigerated until delivery to classrooms.
It would be advisable to serve the most perishable item (i.e. pre-sliced items) at the beginning of the week and…
Motor vehicle collisions both on-road (i.e. with cars,bicycles, or pedestrians) and off-road (i.e. with all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, or boats) are some of the leading causes of injury in Northwestern Ontario. The Thunder Bay District Health Unit works in promoting safety and preventing…
Under the Child Care and Early Years Act, all children attending a licensed child care centre (daycare) must be immunized as required by the local Medical Officer of Health (MOH). The operator of the licensed facility has a legal obligation to make sure that all the children in their care are…