Sooke Region Community Health Initiative

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The District of Sooke is proud to support the Sooke Region Community Health Initiative (CHI), a partnership of community members and health & social service providers advocating for healthy communities from Beecher Bay to Port Renfrew.  An unincorporated non-profit group, CHI works collaboratively to achieve common goals.

Generally meetings are held on the 2nd Monday of each month – new members are welcome.
Please check sookeregionresources.com for details.

Community Health Initiatives Terms of Reference

Membership: Community members and representatives of health, education and social service agencies in our region.

Region: Beecher Bay to Port Renfrew

Purpose:

  • To work towards, advocate for and create healthy individuals & communities in our region
  • To reduce health inequalities for all individuals
  • To work to eliminate barriers and filters to current services
  • To support and facilitate efforts to improve local services
  • To identify sources of, or establish and maintain current data on, the demographics of our communities to aid in regional planning
  • To facilitate the exchange of information and identify opportunities for change
  • To foster awareness of existing services and identify gaps in services
  • To work with the community to develop its vision of a Healthy Community
  • To apply community experience and research knowledge in the development of services.
  • To work collaboratively to address common concerns and take action.
  • To sponsor and steer innovative projects to ensure service needs are met.

Sooke Region Community Health Initiative: Project Summary

 

Sooke Food CHI

From the Sooke Region Community Health Initiative has sprung the Sooke Region Food CHI Society. Sooke Region Food CHI Society is a registered, non-profit society consisting of a group of concerned individuals, producers and consumers. Members are from Sooke District, Otter Point, East Sooke, and Shirley and are developing a Food Strategy for the Sooke Region.

Sooke Food CHI’s Vision
  • That all citizens of our coastal region will have the opportunity, knowledge and resources to produce, acquire, eat, enjoy and celebrate nutritious local food.
  • We envision a vibrant, sustainable food culture and cuisine rooted in viable local production, historical and First Nations knowledge and environmental stewardship.
  • Citizen needs and desires for local, affordable, healthy food and cuisine will inform food and agricultural policy, legislation and regulations at all levels of government.

More information can be found at www.sookefoodchi.ca

 

Sunriver Allotment Garden

One project that the District of Sooke has worked particularly closely with Food CHI on is the Sunriver Allotment Garden initiative. In the Spring of 2010, the District of Sooke entered into an agreement with the Sooke Region Food CHI Society to administer the use of District land at 2354 Phillips Road, until such time as an independent “Sunriver Allotment Garden Society” can be formed.

This property is located within the Agricultural Land Reserve and has been designated as an Allotment Garden. The garden site has been made available for use by all community members of the Sooke Region, and in 2010, over 60 community members had been assigned a garden plot.