Resource Category: Mental Health

Right to Food Zine

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: Right to Food Zine
• Category: Decolonization, Food Justice, Housing, Income, Mental Health, Policy, Poverty, Racial Equity
• Format: Document
• Type: Zine

Zine from Vancouver’ Downtown Eastside to promote the human right to food that is healthy, nutritious, affordable, and presented with dignity.

Jennifer Black on Creating Connections through Food

• Source: Peter Wall Institute UBC
• Category: Covid 19, Health, Mental Health
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

Discussion on the role of food in creating connections and communities, the surprising impact of school lunch programs and how the pandemic has affected food security and mental health in Canada.

Community Strength Based Approaches to Indigenous Food Systems

• Year Published: 2018
• Source: Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health's UBC Learning Circle (UBCLC)
• Category: Community, Environment, Health, Indigenous food sovereignty, Mental Health, Policy, Procurement, Remote, School, Seafood
• Format: Video
• Type: Video

Webinar with wisdom from three people across BC working in Indigenous food systems.

Food Insecurity and Mental Health

• Year Published: 2018
• Source: PROOF
• Category: Household food insecurity, Income, Mental Health, Poverty
• Format: Website/page
• Type: Fact sheet

Factsheet demonstrating that Canadians living in food insecure households at greater risk of poor mental health and put a large burden on mental health services.