Happy New Year!

Our health co-op has been busy since our last newsletter. We have received comments, feedback and suggestions, and are responding to you. We have updated our website to better address reporting back to our members, we are organizing a forum to build on the past efforts and progress, and we are organizing our next series of Choices for Healthy Lifestyles.

We are focusing in on looking to strengthen our community programs by looking at the effectiveness of our programs, the financial requirements and the necessary volunteer efforts. We continued to build key partnerships in our local and provincial community, and are further developing our Board and committees, all to carry us towards the next stage of our development. 

We now have the ideas that helped the co-op become what it is today, compiled for everyone to look at. 

The attached documents provide a summary of perspectives and comments from four community forums in which interested citizens expressed their views on a proposed Community Health Co-op in Victoria, BC. The forums were held May5, 2007 at the James Bay Community Project; October 12, 2007, Fernwood; April 19, 2008, Vic West and May 24, 2008 at Quadra Hillside.

The information is presented in text in the word document and as a visual mind map in the pdf documents.

Date: Tuesdays, Nov. 3 – Dec. 15, 2009, 3 pm till 5 pm
 
Topic:  Healthy Lifestyles Choices Course

What: A drop-in 7 week program everyone welcome
 
Tuesdays 3 – 5pm

Dec 8th: Relationships
Dec 15th: Celebration 

Free Admission & Meal Included

Location: First†Metropolitan Church, 932 Balmoral Rd.
 
Presenter: Each week there will be different speakers to match the topic of the week
 
Session Description: This course is interactive where participants will be encouraged to engage and learn together. The course is designed for the senior audience.