Try our impression in 2024 and uncover how your donations assist us make transformative change. Register now and luxuriate in early hen charges for our Nationwide Convention on Might 10th in Toronto – along with the principle convention, there’s a teen convention in addition to a half-day session on Might 9th for allied well being/dietitians. Plus, register your little one for the Allergy Buddies/Allies winter session beginning subsequent week Saturday and take a look at our open part-time Challenge Supervisor position. Lastly, we’ve included some useful decision tricks to assist you in 2025.

2024 yr in assessment – Thanks on your assist!
2024 was a busy yr of delivering academic assets, constructing supportive communities, and advocating on key meals allergy points.
Check out our 2024 Influence in Numbers illustration to see how your assist helps us create a constructive change for the meals allergy neighborhood.
Plus, take a look at the highlights of our 2024 accomplishments beneath and donate to change into part of our donor neighborhood and assist us #MakeFoodAllergyCount in 2025 and past.
Empowering Canadians to know when and how you can deal with anaphylaxis
Since reactions can occur regardless of greatest efforts, it’s vital 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 solely 1-in-5 kids and fewer than 1-in-10 adults use it earlier than they go to the hospital.
With our Comprehend it. Deal with it. marketing campaign and your submitted tales, webinars, movies on meals allergy and anaphylaxis, and academic content material on anaphylaxis administration, we’ve helped instill confidence and information 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 118 million views!
2025 and past: We’re targeted on breaking down boundaries to utilizing epinephrine by constructing confidence, empowering Canadians to acknowledge and deal with anaphylaxis, and advocating for brand spanking new choices, corresponding to non-needle options, so Canadians have a selection in life-saving therapy.
Advocacy in motion and being your voice on the desk to enhance high quality of life

We targeted on 4 important ongoing nationwide and international long-term advocacy initiatives in 2024: The Nationwide Meals Allergy Motion Plan which noticed a significant replace, entry to therapies like oral immunotherapy (OIT) the place we met with authorities and others to make sure Canadians might proceed to entry this therapy choice, knowledgeable eating with foodservice the place we’re advocating for higher allergen administration within the business and launched a brand new toolkit to make foodservice environments safer and extra inclusive, and entry to correct ingredient info with packaged meals. We additionally participated in 9 authorities consultations and helped to guide 5 analysis initiatives.
2025 and past: We will probably be your voice on the desk on issues which can be vital to you and your loved ones. Our initiatives within the meals business stay a key precedence, together with advocating for clearer meals labels and entry to correct ingredient info with foodservice, meals producers, business, authorities, and different key companions. Everybody has a proper to know what’s of their meals.
Our advocacy efforts can even deal with 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 Canadians have a dependable supply for info and steering proper from prognosis and thru life transitions
We have now reached over 673,826 households, youth, and adults by means of our web site, social channels, and academic programming. We empowered the neighborhood by means of our webinars with medical consultants, and with new content-rich assets. A notable achievement is growing the accessibility of our assets by having our care information translated in 10 languages.
2025 and past: Offering Canadians with sturdy academic programming, assets, and assist – notably throughout essential life levels like when newly identified, beginning college, leaving dwelling and extra.
Along with our common programming, Canadians can study from consultants in particular person at our Nationwide Convention on Might tenth, 2025.
Elevated empathy and assist so this medical situation is taken significantly, and other people know how you can assist these impacted
In 2024, we launched a nationwide marketing campaign selling our curriculum-linked scholar program, All About Meals Allergy, to educators. The purpose of this program is to construct educated and inclusive communities throughout Canada. We had nearly 3.5 million impressions of our marketing campaign – which means our content material was displayed this many occasions to assist drive consciousness and registrations.
Our Halloween marketing campaign #ShineATealLight has helped to carry consciousness of meals allergy and guarantee holidays like Halloween are inclusive for all youngsters with over 112 million views throughout Canada.
We educated over 26,000 healthcare professionals on meals allergy and anaphylaxis administration by means of our unsolicited mail and e mail efforts and conferences – making certain sufferers, notably in rural and distant areas, are higher supported.
2025 and past: Promote our nationwide scholar program to coach communities on the seriousness of meals allergy, growing empathy and assist and normalizing the situation.
We can even educate and drive consciousness throughout the nation with focused campaigns, by means of healthcare conferences, and extra to make sure meals allergy is taken significantly and Canadians are higher supported.
Register now: Meals Allergy Canada Nationwide Convention 2025: Unlocking the meals allergy future
Our nationwide convention is on Saturday, Might 10th, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario. Prepare for an action-packed day brimming with knowledgeable insights, networking with others, and a lot extra! Dive into our highlights beneath to see what’s in retailer!
Highlights
- Study from main Canadian allergists and meals allergy consultants on the most recent analysis and developments in therapy.
- Hear from Timothy Caulfield, Professor of Well being Legislation & Science Coverage, and bestselling writer in our opening plenary session, “Past the noise: The essential position of scientific consensus in an period of misinformation”. Professor Caulfield will talk about the difficulties in navigating healthcare because of the unprecedented ranges of misinformation.
- Concurrent periods
- Teenagers: Youth 12+ will get an opportunity to learn to handle meals allergy confidently from numerous consultants, whereas making new mates from across the nation
- Dietitians and allied well being professionals: Take part in periods on prevention, non-IgE-mediated types of meals allergy, like FPIES, EoE, FPIAP (CMPA)
- Exhibitor corridor open from 7:45am-6pm so you possibly can go to organizations that assist the meals allergy neighborhood
- Lunch and snacks are included within the registration, and can adhere to your particular allergen issues
- Meet new mates and create connections with others locally!
Registration is now open! Study extra at foodallergycanada.ca/2025conference.
Register now: Allergy Buddies/Allies – winter periods begin subsequent Saturday!

The free 8-week on-line mentorship program will start on January 25! Join your 7-15-year-old now to hitch a supportive neighborhood with youngsters who share comparable experiences.
These on-line weekly periods present a secure and supportive house the place youngsters can join with others who perceive what they’re going by means of. Led by peer mentors, these interactive periods are designed to assist kids really feel extra assured managing their meals allergy, whereas making new mates who share comparable experiences. Register your little one in the present day to safe their spot!
Be a part of our staff: Half-time Challenge Supervisor

Are you captivated with making an actual distinction within the non-profit sector? Do you will have sturdy challenge administration expertise?
We’re hiring for a part-time Challenge Supervisor to guide the event of pointers and coaching assets for managing meals allergy in kids’s camp environments.
Learn the job description to study extra concerning the position and how you can apply. If this appears like the proper match for you, we’d love to listen to from you!
2025 New Yr’s resolutions
As we step into 2025, it’s the proper time to assessment vital instruments and assets that may enable you and your loved ones handle meals allergy extra confidently.
From Allergy Alerts to useful guides and ideas, these assets will assist you in staying knowledgeable and ready all year long!
Signal-up now for our Allergy Alerts security service and get allergen-specific meals remembers, allergen adjustments, labelling updates, and extra despatched on to your inbox!
You’ll be able to depend on our Allergy Alerts service to make sure you are stored knowledgeable on meals questions of safety that impression you. Do you know final yr there have been 25 Allergy Alerts?
Be within the know and enroll now.
Uncover our recommendations on studying ingredient labels, plus, our Triple Test advice.
Try our assets to remain up to date on the indicators and signs of anaphylaxis and how you can deal with it promptly with epinephrine.
The New Yr is the proper time to test the dates of your auto-injectors to ensure they aren’t expired. Learn our epinephrine sheet for extra info and ideas.
Study the science behind the situation and what occurs to your physique. These movies train you why it’s so vital to make use of epinephrine promptly to deal with anaphylaxis.
Now obtainable in 10 languages, this information supplies easy-to-understand info that’s important for managing meals allergy and anaphylaxis. These guides are good for grandparents and different caregivers.
Tags: allergy allies, Allergy Buddies, impression in numbers
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