Minding Our Bodies launched a new website today (www.mindingourbodies.ca) to begin raising awareness of the project and to seek expressions of interest from organizations that may want to participate in local pilot programs in 2009.

Minding Our Bodies will develop a toolkit and training workshop to support mental health agencies and community partners that want to start a physical activity program. The toolkit will be piloted in three communities in Ontario. A formal request for proposals will be issued in January 2009, and expressions of interest are now being accepted through the project website.

An environmental scan is currently in progress to gather information about existing physical activity programs, and to identify start-up challenges and program success factors. A province-wide survey is being conducted among mental health service providers, including organizations that currently have a physical activity program as well as those that don’t.

Explore the site to find out more about Minding Our Bodies, meet our advisory committee, and sign up for the project newsletter (see sidebar).