• The Local Advisory Group is composed of:

• SPRINT (Senior Peoples' Resources In North Toronto)- sponsoring agency
• The Anne Johnston Health Station
• Toronto Public Health
• Toronto Parks and Recreation
• Parkdale Golden Age Foundation
• P.O.I.N.T. (People and Organizations In North Toronto)
• Toronto CCAC (Toronto Community Care Access Centre Toronto)
• Community Seniors

Bringing Nutrition Screening to Seniors in Canada, a national project sponsored by the Population Health Fund of Health Canada, will determine how well equipped Canadian communities are to respond to identified nutritional needs of older adults.

Starting this fall, seniors in the selected communities will have the opportunity to complete SCREEN©, a tool designed to identify nutritional risk.

Seniors with identified nutritional problems will benefit through referral to nutrition related services that meet their specific needs. Service providers will benefit from using a single, simple, valid and reliable tool for nutrition risk screening.

Each of the community demonstration sites has a local advisory group of community partners that include seniors, seniors service providers and dietitians.

The five demonstration sites will provide valuable models and leadership for other communities wishing to take action on the nutrition and food related challenges of their older citizens.