Try our impression in 2025 and uncover how your donations assist us make transformative change. We’re hiring, discover our two new job postings and apply to affix our crew! Take our survey on our instructional programming and tell us what subjects you need to study extra about in our 2026 webinar collection. Plus, register your youngster for the free Allergy Friends/Allies winter session beginning this month and we’ve included some useful decision tricks to help you in 2026.
2025 yr in overview – Thanks in your help!
All through 2025, we targeted on offering meals allergy schooling and help, grew supportive communities in foodservice, faculties, and different environments, and championed progress on vital points.
Discover our 2025 Affect in Numbers illustration to see the tangible distinction your help has made for the meals allergy neighborhood.
Plus, take a look at a few of our key accomplishments from 2025 and donate to develop into part of our donor neighborhood to assist us proceed driving change and #MakeFoodAllergyCount in 2026 and past.
Empowering Canadians to know when and how you can deal with anaphylaxis
Since reactions can occur regardless of greatest efforts, it’s necessary to acknowledge the signs of anaphylaxis and know how you can deal with it. Immediate use of epinephrine to deal with anaphylaxis improves well being outcomes, but much less than 50% of anaphylaxis circumstances obtain epinephrine earlier than reaching the hospital.
With our Understand it. Deal with it. marketing campaign and your submitted tales, our webinars, movies on meals allergy and anaphylaxis, and academic content material on anaphylaxis administration, we’ve helped instill confidence and data in Canadians throughout the nation. Plus, with our nationwide marketing campaign throughout Meals Allergy Consciousness Month in Might, we helped to make sure Canadians know how you can acknowledge and deal with anaphylaxis with over 113 million impressions of our marketing campaign!
2026 and past: We’re targeted on breaking down limitations to the correct remedy of anaphylaxis. Virtually 50% of all anaphylactic reactions occur outdoors the house—but, epinephrine isn’t at all times out there when it’s wanted. Along with persevering with our schooling efforts, we will likely be advocating for life-saving remedy, epinephrine, to be inside attain each time and wherever it’s wanted by growing inventory epinephrine availability. Inventory epinephrine is like having a public defibrillator (AED) or a primary assist package: it’s not prescribed to a particular individual, however it’s out there in emergencies for anybody who wants it.
Advocacy in motion and being your voice on the desk to enhance high quality of life
We targeted on 4 ongoing nationwide and world long-term advocacy initiatives: the Nationwide Meals Allergy Motion Plan, bettering entry to therapies, selling safer and inclusive eating, and making certain entry to correct ingredient data.
We additionally superior 4 key advocacy initiatives in 2025: the #FoodAllergyVotes federal election marketing campaign, the Nationwide College Meals Program, help in stopping meals allergy, and bettering entry to epinephrine in public areas. As well as, we participated in eight authorities consultations and helped to guide 5 analysis tasks.
2026 and past: We make sure the voices and wishes of the meals allergy neighborhood are acknowledged in authorities and trade. This February, we’re assembly with authorities leaders on Parliament Hill to advocate for stronger federal help and prioritization of meals allergy prevention, administration, and care.
Our initiatives within the meals trade stay a key precedence, together with advocating for entry to correct ingredient data with foodservice, meals producers, trade, authorities, and different key companions. Everybody has a proper to know what’s of their meals.
Our advocacy efforts may even give attention to: growing entry to reasonably priced therapies that may enhance the security and high quality of life for Canadians of all ages, making certain they’ve choices on how you can handle their meals allergy; making certain insurance policies are in place for camp environments; and supporting efforts on stopping meals allergy in infants.
Constructing knowledgeable and supportive communities
In 2025, we continued laying the muse for enhanced allergen administration within the foodservice trade by new Public Well being pilot initiatives, conferences, webinars, and launching a brand new video micro-training collection, “Serving the Meals Allergic Visitor”, created particularly for foodservice employees.
We drove consciousness by focused campaigns to advertise our curriculum-linked pupil program, All About Meals Allergy, to educators. The aim of this program is to construct educated and inclusive communities throughout Canada. We had 1.6 million impressions of our marketing campaign – that means our content material was displayed this many occasions to assist drive consciousness and registrations.
We additionally started a brand new initiative targeted on camp environments as presently there are not any constant requirements for coaching or protocols to handle meals allergy and anaphylaxis in camp settings.
2026 and past: Entry to safer and extra inclusive eating choices stays a key focus. This yr, we’ll advocate for consistency in practices, together with coaching necessities and entry to ingredient data, to make sure all Canadians have a seat on the desk and might eat out with confidence. We may even be growing our allergen administration tips for foodservice operators.
We’re dedicated to creating protected and inclusive areas for kids by our All About Meals Allergy pupil program and our camp initiative that goals to equip camps and leisure packages with standardized coaching and sensible instruments to make sure all kids can take part with confidence.
Making certain Canadians have a dependable supply for data and steerage proper from analysis and thru life transitions
Final yr, we reached virtually 985,000 households, youth, and adults by our web site, social channels, and academic programming. We empowered the neighborhood by our webinars with medical specialists, and with new video assets. A notable achievement was our 2025 Nationwide Convention, the place we welcomed over 250 attendees from throughout the nation, each in individual and nearly. Contributors heard from main specialists on the newest in meals allergy analysis, care, and remedy, whereas additionally connecting with others.
2026 and past: We stay dedicated to offering Canadians with sturdy instructional programming, assets, and help – significantly throughout vital life phases like when newly recognized, beginning college, leaving house, and extra.
Elevated consciousness so this medical situation is taken significantly, and other people know how you can help these impacted
With over 121 million impressions throughout Canada, our #ShineATealLight Halloween marketing campaign has helped to deliver consciousness of meals allergy and guarantee holidays like Halloween are inclusive for all children. Different occasions of the yr we’re out with public campaigns are throughout Meals Allergy Consciousness Month and back-to-school.
Final yr, we delivered over 23,000 meals allergy and anaphylaxis assets to healthcare professionals, equipping them to raised help sufferers. With simply over 300 allergists in Canada and greater than 3 million Canadians affected by meals allergy, it’s vital to make sure household physicians, paediatricians, and different healthcare suppliers are geared up with vital data and assets wanted to help their sufferers with meals allergy.
2026 and past: We are going to educate and drive consciousness throughout the nation with focused campaigns, by healthcare conferences, and extra to assist Canadians higher perceive and help these dwelling with meals allergy.
We’re hiring: Improvement Coordinator and Director of Advertising and marketing Communications
We’re increasing our crew with two new roles: Improvement Coordinator and Director of Advertising and marketing Communications.
The deadline to use for each roles is January 31, 2026. Each positions are full-time and based mostly in Toronto, ON.
Be taught extra in regards to the roles beneath and apply or share with others that could be .
Improvement Coordinator
We’re in search of a Improvement Coordinator with expertise in donor administration to help us with operational excellence and fundraising actions.
The Improvement Coordinator will help the fundraising efforts of the group and will likely be answerable for implementing the donor stewardship matrix, sustaining correct donor data, managing the donor database, conducting prospect analysis, helping with reporting and evaluation, presentation improvement, coordinating conferences, and fundraising actions.
Director of Advertising and marketing Communications
We’re in search of a dynamic Director of Advertising and marketing Communications to raise our model presence, strengthen our digital engagement, and increase the attain and impression of our schooling and advocacy initiatives.
The Director of Advertising and marketing Communications will play a vital management function in shaping how Meals Allergy Canada connects with Canadians. This particular person will develop and execute an built-in advertising and marketing communications technique that will improve visibility, deepen engagement, and drive significant motion amongst numerous audiences — together with people with meals allergy, caregivers, educators, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and the general public.
Survey: Inform us which subjects you need featured in our webinar collection
As meals allergy analysis, care, and each day administration proceed to evolve, we need to ensure our schooling retains tempo with what issues most to you.
We’re planning our 2026 instructional webinar collection, and your enter will assist form the subjects we give attention to this yr. We’d like to know what you’re most involved in studying extra about proper now.
Would you want clearer steerage on recognizing and responding to allergic reactions, together with when and how you can use epinephrine and what components could make reactions extra extreme? Are you curious about studying extra about non-IgE-mediated meals allergy circumstances, corresponding to EoE, in addition to new approaches to prevention and rising analysis past customary oral immunotherapy? Would you like sensible, real-world help for navigating college, journey, and consuming out, or larger readability round meals labelling, cross-contamination, and on a regular basis threat? You might also be searching for steerage on dwelling nicely with meals allergy at totally different life phases—from early childhood by adolescence and maturity.
We need to hear what’s most necessary to you and your loved ones—and if there’s a subject you don’t see listed, you may recommend your individual.
Your suggestions performs an important function in serving to us ship well timed, related, and significant schooling. Please take a couple of minutes to finish our brief survey and assist information our 2026 programming!
Register now: Allergy Friends/Allies – winter classes begin quickly!
Our free 8-week on-line mentorship program begins on Saturday, January twenty fourth! Signal up your 7-15-year-old now, so that they don’t miss out on an incredible expertise connecting with different kids with meals allergy.
These on-line classes are informative and interesting. We now have acquired excellent suggestions from earlier individuals, who typically come again to take the course once more! Register your youngster at the moment to save lots of their spot!
2026 New 12 months’s resolutions
This new yr, we’re highlighting sensible instruments our neighborhood is dependent upon. From Allergy Alerts to useful guides and suggestions, these assets will hold you knowledgeable, ready, and assured. A lot of our assets are additionally out there in French on our web site.
Begin 2026 knowledgeable and assured in at all times realizing the newest by signing up for our Allergy Alerts service. Get well timed updates on meals recollects, allergen modifications, labelling updates, and extra—delivered straight to your inbox.
Final yr alone, 35 Allergy Alerts helped our neighborhood keep conscious of modifications that would impression them. Be sure you don’t miss a single replace this yr—join at the moment!
Overview our sensible tips about studying ingredient labels and study our Triple Test suggestion that will help you make protected selections.
Try our assets to remain updated on the indicators and signs of anaphylaxis and the steps to deal with a response promptly with epinephrine. Plus, make sure you take a look at your data on indicators and signs with our model new brief movies that includes totally different eventualities!
The New 12 months is the proper time to verify the dates of your auto-injectors to ensure they don’t seem to be expired. Learn our epinephrine sheet for extra data and suggestions.
Be taught the science behind the situation and what occurs to your physique. These movies train you why it’s so necessary to make use of epinephrine promptly to deal with anaphylaxis.
Our care guides provide clear, easy-to-understand data for grandparents, babysitters, lecturers, and different caregivers. Accessible in 10 languages, they’re a good way to increase help to your wider neighborhood.
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