The CFA Training Program provides specially recruited volunteers with in-depth knowledge and skills on the more practical components of healthy eating including:

• Canada's Food Guide
• Food Safety
• Food Shopping
• Food Storage
• Food Preparation - basic skills + cooking for one/two + low fat cooking
• Focus on the Food Groups
• Presentation, Facilitation and Leadership Skills
• Healthy Eating for Children

There are 12 core sessions designed to be delivered once a week for 3 hours per session.  Each session includes a lecturette with PowerPoint, background reading and workbook material as well as either a cooking demonstration or cooking together segment.

There are 4 optional sessions:

• Vegetarianism
• Nutrition Labeling
• Food Preservation - Canning and Pickling; Jams and Jellies, Freezing and Drying
• Working with Multicultural Groups

Each trainee receives a 250 page CFA Resource Binder including 100 recipes for use in CFA programming which is theirs to keep if training is completed and 1 year of community service.  Trainees also complete the Food Handlers Certification course.

For further information, contact the Provincial Program Coordinator: cfa [at] opha [dot] on [dot] ca