The Growing Healthy Places project is an exciting project that benefits schools, communities and students in the following ways:
- Opportunity to represent Mississauga in an impactful global health initiative.
- Schools will receive funding for project participation to support health and physical education curricular and extracurricular activities.
- Schools have the chance to contribute to a community-based health research project.
- Be part of a community that contributes to a wider understanding of how to promote learning and access to nutritious food and physical activity among children in underserved communities.
- Engage in a larger conversation about student health and well-being with tangible outcomes.
- Students from activation schools will benefit from participation in the regionally selected activities and programs implemented in their schools.