The CHANGE Program helps Canadians navigate nutrition and exercise options, with the guidance of their family doctor and a multidisciplinary team.

Learnings and innovations from ten years of implementing the CHANGE Program across Canada:

Learnings

• Selecting a program

• Cultural Safety and Primary Care

• Virtual healthcare supports

• The importance of metrics

• Challenges in data collection

• How partnerships can help rural recruiting

• Rehab and Prehab opportunities

• Focus: succeed one step at a time

• Moving to chronic health from chronic disease
  (proactive vs. reactive)

• Weight Inclusive Approach

Innovations

• The importance of Dietitians/Kinesiologists in primary care

• Community and Funding partners

• UBC Builds Capacity for collaborative health education

• UBC places students in primary care

• Multidisciplinary Healthcare teams and PCNs in BC

• EMR customizations

• Oral healthcare partners

• Knowledge sharing and team building

• BC Ministry Supports (Ministry of Health AHSP, Action 35)

• Protecting a scarce resource: The Family Doctor