Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba Health Promotion

Health Promotion encourages Manitobans to improve their health through the adoption of behaviors that help prevent, reduce and limit heart disease and stroke.  Stroke and obesity have been identified as priorities for the next several years by all Heart and Stroke Foundations across Canada.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba has demonstrated its leadership in health promotion by facilitating program delivery throughout the province at a public and health professional level.

Advocacy
We partner with many organizations to advocate for cardiovascular supportive environments.  This includes supporting smoke-free environments, healthy food choices, physical activity opportunities, and addressing the needs of people with heart disease and stroke.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba played an important role in the passing of the Good Samaritan Act by Manitoba Legislative Assembly in December 2006. This removed a large barrier to bystander intervention in an emergency health-care situation and encourages Manitobans to provide assistance in an emergency situation when needed – free from fear of litigation.

Resuscitation Programs (CPR)
We work with our National office to set and maintain the guidelines for CPR Programs and training in Manitoba.  We maintain a database of approximately 1000 registered CPR Instructors from the province of Manitoba, who train over 15,000 providers every year.  The importance of learning CPR is promoted during our CPR Awareness Month in November.

CPR Anytime KIts
The CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ Personal Learning Program allows families, friends and the general public – those who most likely would never attend a traditional CPR course – to learn the core skills of CPR for adults and children in just 20 minutes using their own personal kit. The kit contains everything needed to learn basic CPR, and skills can be learned anywhere, from the comfort of a family home to a large community group setting. To purchase a CPR Anytime™ Kit contact the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba office at (204) 949-2000 or toll-free 1-888-473-4636.

Heart Health
We provide free heart health information to the public and health professionals in the form of resources, response to inquiries and promotion of February as Heart Month.

Nutrition 
We provide free healthy eating information to public and health professionals in the form of resources, various March is Nutrition Month events, recipes and response to inquiries.  We work closely with other community partners to increase awareness of healthy eating.

Physical Activity
We offer free active living information to public and health professionals in the form of resources and response to inquries.  We were the first Chair and Secretariat for the Physical Activity Coalition of Manitoba (PACM). During Physical Activity Month in May, the Foundation promotes workplace wellness in the province through its Workplace Physical Activity Challenge.

Resources
We have a variety of pamphlets, posters, and videos on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and stroke.  Every year we provide over 270,000 free resources and our team of health promotion experts answer over 10,000 inquiries from the general public and health professionals.

Stroke
We provide free stroke information to the public and health professionals in the form of resources and response to inquiries.  An awareness campaign is run to educate Manitobans about the warning signs of stroke.  We have taken a leadership role in the development of a coordinated stroke strategy in two regional health centres(Winnipeg & Brandon) and are working to expand the strategy across Manitoba.