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food**experienceexperiencepassing on food knowledge

& health perceptionin Greater Grand Crossing

*Question:the

what happens...

- w/ garden food

&- culinaryknowledge?

THE QUESTIONEXPANDS

employment

GCYC value to community?

community problems

Priorities

HOW WEWENT ABOUT THE

*Anthro. POV- structural/holistic approach

*Participant Observation

RESEARCH:

HOW WEWENT ABOUT THE

*Icebreakers

*Neighborhood Observation

RESEARCH:

HOW WEWENT ABOUT THE

*Interview

*Reflexivity

RESEARCH:

the

interview

what we saw:- systemic issues [[saw:

* income * time* access

Youth Life Pressures and Priorities

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so when i think of the work we do here and the connections we make to the students its that kind of connection we start off with somethig, you think youre having a valentines day flower sale, and instead, you get involved with a young person’s life at this juncture that like all this stuff is going on. You know he’s being bullied at school, maybe there’s about his life coming out.

- Safety Perspective.

food desert ; access & neighborhood change

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No more chips, funyuns, or whatever they call them, red-hots, it kills their stomachs. It is

what all our children eat. Its at all the corner stores, all that red dye...

[on re-invisioning the neighborhood food choices...]

food desert ; access & neighborhood change

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No more chips, funyuns, or whatever they call them, red-hots, it kills their stomachs. It is

what all our children eat. Its at all the corner stores, all that red dye...

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Ohh food availability? It’s not very; it’s not very high, I mean for people who doesn’t have transportation and disposable income to really be healthy on a limited budget...you know McDonalds is so cheap, Burger King is so cheap, Popeyed Chicken they all are right there, Long Jones Silver Pizza Hut----- Wendys… you know they all are right there at ----walking distance and cheap

[on re-invisioning the neighborhood food choices...]

TRANSFEROF

KNOWLEDGE

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FROM CHILD TO PARENT

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TRANSFEROF

KNOWLEDGE

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FROM CHILD TO PARENT

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I definitely have seen students influence their parents...one student brought his father to the parent child cooking class..we made jerk chicken with brown rice brazed carrots and cabbage... And they had a great time. And then [the student] stopped me the other day and said, ‘you know we made that menu the other night at my house. Me and my dad and my mom we all cooked together and it turned out pretty good’

TRANSFEROF

KNOWLEDGE

FROM PARENT TO CHILD

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FROM PARENT TO CHILD

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Yeah, I try to tell my baby that, like the broccoli, he don't like to eat broccoli. I’m like it's good for you, you need a vegetable, that’s what I say, you need vegetables.

nutrition, food habits & health perception

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"You know it’s a dangerous world, whatever we’re eating I know it’s dangerous.”

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“I do make kool-aid but I don’t put all that sugar that it requires. I’ll put half of it... But I do use sugar and I know that you shouldn’t use white sugar but I use brown sugar and maybe honey to sweeten it but it’s a spinoff of maybe juice so I do that. But I know that too I’ve heard that there’s dye in the kool-aid

FOODFAMILIARITY

*egg in the eggplant*white broccoli*Real G’s...

GCYC IMPACT ON COMMUNITY

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Oh yes for the positive, yes it gives the kids some place to be yes Ahh it’s a place for kids to come a source of employment for some of the local families, grown up, they have many of the employees here that live in the neighborhood

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I think the center did the neighborhood good. The kids love it...

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...because now the center...they won't let them come in here with that bag of junk, let them know that that's not healthy. So they provide them healthy snacks. And they help them to create some type of pocket fuel, that they call for theirself and it's something like granola bars with raisins or something that they made and

recommendationsfinal

VISIBILITY in neighborhoodGARDEN on GROUNDLARGER use of GARDEN PRODUCEPUBLICIZE availability ofPRODUCE

recommendationsfinal

COMMUNITY leaders andthe centerINCREASE programs to include parentsINTEGRATE mentors

recommendationsfinal

FOSTER COLLEGIATE RELATIONSHIP

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