Mission

The Montreal Diet Dispensary's (MDD) mission is to promote health in the community especially among pregnant mothers whose babies are at risk.

Objectives

To achieve its mission, the MDD's objectives are to:

• reduce the number of low birth weight babies born to disadvantaged mothers;
• promote and support breastfeeding;
• empower mothers to take charge of their own as well as their family's physical and mental well-being, while fostering their integration into society.

Principal strategies

• Provide mothers with nutrition counselling "Higgins Method"© and offer them group activities in the pre- and postnatal period.
• Conduct research.
• Plan and give training programs.
• Interact with the community.

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