Brought to you by: Pathways Mashteuiatsh 

“When we eat together, it brings us closer…it brings you closer to your friends.”  

A Pathways student

Program Activity Snapshot:

To enhance students’ success in school:  

• We provided youth with a hot breakfast at school every morning, spent with Pathways staff and their peers 
• Youth provided feedback on the breakfast menus and helped serve the food 
• We engaged students in health and nutrition micro-learning opportunities 

Objectives:

1. Create a welcoming environment for youth to socialize and learn  
2. Increase youth participation in Pathways activities  
3. Build stronger connections with young people to better support them

What was the result?

• Helped youth connect with and learn from their families 
• Youth gained skills and experiences to support career success:  
  • Students completed the Safe Food Handling training and certification necessary to work in the food industry  
  • By helping to plan the menus and serve the food, students developed transferrable skills such as teamwork, organizational, decision-making, leadership, and communication skills  

Want to try this out?

What you’ll need:

1. Staffing Support: Two Program Facilitators working 1.5 hours per week for 12 weeks 
2. Duration: Every morning over the course of a school year     
3. Teaching aids:     
   • Access to food suppliers   
   • Youth volunteers  
   • Nutritionists/Health Experts to participate in the micro-learning opportunities  

What you’ll do:

1. Develop a partnership with the school  
2. Promote the breakfast service on social media and engage youth in helping to choose the menu  
3. Develop thematic micro-learning activities related to school (e.g., a mini conference with a nutritionist)  
4. Engage youth volunteers to help with the breakfast service and provide them with Safe Food Handling training  

Downloadable resources (e.g. templates, examples used):

• Read the evaluation results of Pathways Mashteuiatsh’s Breakfast Club to get ideas on how to measure the impact of your program location’s activities (Available in French only, please read Pathways Kingston’s Pathways Chef activity to access a similar resource in English).