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Thank you for coming today.

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I'm Dr. Patton Lopez. I am faculty member here in Community Health.

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Today we have three great presentations. 

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We are going to do this a little like a panel style.

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Each student will present for 10 minutes on their topic. Each of them are talking about an area related to new food access.

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This is a great opportunity to see a variety of strategies we use to improve

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access to healthy food for our community.

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So I would first like to introduce Danielle Seuser Smith

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She is a community health student and will be graduating this year.

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In addition up next we will have after Danielle we will have Gisela Ayala

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who will also be presenting and then we will have Cristina Garcia 

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who will be our third presenter. After each of the presenters 

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we will open it up for questions and 

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they will each take a turn answering your questions. Okay.

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So lets go ahead and get started. 

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Hi everyone I am Danielle Seuser Smith. I am a community healthy major with a minor in gerontology

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and today I am going to share with you my experience interning 

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at the Boy's & Girl's Club in Salem. 

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As well as my experience of creating a garden, nutrition curriculum for them.

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Our group is focusing on food insecurity.

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Food insecurity as USDA defines is

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There was a survey in 2016 done

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Why are concerned about food insecurity among children?

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There are many reasons we focused on food insecurity 

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because children have inadequate diet they lack

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the recommended nutrition needed. 

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This increases the risk of poor health conditions which then can 

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increase hospital visits and also increase rates of chronic illnesses. 

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Some of the mental problems they have are

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anxiety, depression, ADHD and these behavioral problems also cause problems in school rates.

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These cause poor academic performance. 

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Like I said before I did my internship at the boys & girls club 

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The boys & girls club is an establishment that works towards giving youth a safe environment to go to after school hours.

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this is a place where they 

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are given programs and opportunities to help provide tools and create 

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the knowledge needed to be successful in their life and future.

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Most of these children live in poverty and face many hardships

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and the boys & girls clubs goal is to give them a better opportunity.

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The motivating factor of my research and creating the garden curriculum for the boys & girls club 

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was that they were given garden beds 

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donated to them and they weren't using them.

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The staff at the boys & girls club is not educated enough to focus on all the other programs 

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and then to also garden. 

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So my supervisor is the Healthly Life Styles Program coordinator 

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and she helps run all the 

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boys and girls clubs in Salem and none of the garden beds are being used.

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She asked me to create a lesson plan 

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for the staff members to teach the boys and girls how to garden and why it is important.

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The target audience that I focus my lessons on were the 6-10 year olds.

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For the reason that the majors of the boys & girls club 

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in Salem are all elementary they have teen

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club houses but like I said the majority of them

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are lower elementary students.

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The lessons I created were just to give them the basics. 

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Also to engage the students because going outside 

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is a tough environment to teach in general and so I needed create 

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a program that the students would stay engaged.

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The garden education has a strategy to decrease food insecurity is used 

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to provide proper nutrition 

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education. Also the knowledge and skills needed to garden. 

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Gardening give students and people in general a more increase awareness

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of fresh fruits and vegetables and through 

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this they also can increase the access to

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the fresh produce. So creating the garden

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of education was another way to work towards

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helping with the food insecurity in Marion and Polk County. 

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Benefits of garden nutrition education that researchers 

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have found is that garden education 

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increases knowledge of fruits and vegetables, knowledge about science 

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of gardening and increases the preference for fruits and vegetables.

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That is a big thing because most kids don't like 

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fruits and vegetables. So putting that hands on

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getting the kids in the garden and teaching them how to do it gives them the opportunity to say

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hey I grew this, I'm gonna try this and maybe like it.

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So that can also increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables. 

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To create this curriculum I spent a lot of time Google searching best practices, 

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curriculum that is being used in other states. 

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I also reached out to some community members, professions that work in the nutrition and gardening  expertise. 

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Mostly a OSU extension office and Marion Polk County Food Share.

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This was a  very long process for me. 

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For one, I had to teach myself how to garden because I never had to.

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But also reaching out to community members was something I was not comfortable doing.

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But I did it and it was great and I got a lot of help. I am super greatful that

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I went out and did that. 

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A few people that really helped me create my curriculum was

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I went to a volunteer orientation the first week of my

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internship and I was like 

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oh this is so neat. I didn't realize how many food banks were available in the Marion and Polk County.

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So I didn't even know Amy at this point

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talking with Carly Kristofik

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from OSU Extension Services 

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She had me go talk to Amy.

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But talking with Kelly and Carly at OUS extension office

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they gave me access to the majority of

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my curriculum that I based my curriculum off of. They were very helpful and I owe it to them. 

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The three resources that I chose to base my curriculum off of

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were given to me through free resources.

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Seed to Supper is at the OSU extension office.They do a whole program for adults. 

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It teaches the how to garden, all the tips and all those things.

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The Slowfood and Eat.Think.Grow are two curriculums I found online. They were free resources. 

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Check them out.

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My experiences at the boys & girls club. I was given the opportunity to go to their annual fundraising luncheon.

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Where the main donors of the boys & girls club for Salem go and 

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these are just a few pictures of me

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weeding and this is the garden where it is at as of two days ago.

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That is just me just working on the curriculum.

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Working at the boys & girls club has been a great experience. 

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I for one never thought I would work with kids. 

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I have always worked with adults. So when I got my internship at the boys & girls club I was kinda hesitant.

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Doing the research and teaching classes and just working with the kids has been

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very fun experience for me.

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I actually have applied for a couple of positions there

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so that might be my future career.

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Researching curriculum has been tough but it has been enjoyable for sure. That's it. Thank you very much.

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My name is Gisela. I am also a community health major here at Western.

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I will be speaking about my experience interning at

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Corvallis Housing First as well as my experience creating a self sufficiency program for their residents. 

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So many low income, and former homeless adults, lack skills, knowledge and confidence 

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to meet the basic daily needs. Such as cooking nutritious 

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means, budgeting and time management.

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This term I have been interning at Corvallis Housing First. 

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That national alliance to end homelessness 

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mentions that Oregon is the top of the homeless count list despite

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in having a smaller population.

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In comparison to a larger stage like Texas, California and etc. 

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and so Corvallis Housing First addresses homelessness

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by providing supported housing with case management

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for up to 35 residence who have experienced homelessness.

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You will probably mention to me saying 

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housing and stability, instead of homelessness. That is a more appropriate wording 

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for people who have gone through this experience or who are currently experiencing this. 

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CHF has a mission of providing solutions to ending homelessness 

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and by also achieving their own self sufficiency. 

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Their goal is to form partnerships with this population and work intensively 

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to solve high priority issues. 

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CHF will implement a program that aims to increase the self sufficiency of their residence.

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According to data these are some of the barriers 

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that people may face when experiencing while facing housing stability and eating a healthy diet. 

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So as you can tell you will be

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seeing food and security as the top one and then limited to no money to buy food.

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kinda like a drop in center that they have in Corvallis.

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The lack of knowledge about healthy eating,

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eating for fullness rather than for nutritional value, 

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and some people also view food as a lower priority in 

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their life. Because they mainly focus on where they are going to sleep or

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if their in a safe situation right now.

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Another issue is drug and alcohol issues. 

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People who are experience housing and stability are more likely to have physical  

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healthy issues. Like digestive problems or mental health issues like depression and anxiety.

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The majority struggle with weight lost due to the food insecurity,

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irregular life style, poor dental health and other health issues. 

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Although permeant supportive housing programs subsidized rent which is typically 30% of their income

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findings suggests that residence often struggled meeting other expenses including 

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food and paying their bills. 

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so there for food price is a significant barrier when trying to make

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a healthy food choice. Especially when on a budget. 

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Food and security can also result in malnutrition, distributed eating patterns and reduced food intake.

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And so I created this self sufficiency program.

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The self sufficiency program and two different aims.

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The first aim is to increase their skills, knowledge and confidence at CHF so that they can become more self sufficient.  

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The second is to support the residence in taking action to help permanently break the cycle of homelessness. 

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So special classes will be offered to them. Once a month these classes

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will discuss and demonstrate ways to improve their self sufficiency. 

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Like I mentioned before data has shown that this 

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consuming nutritional antiquate diets can be challenging for low income and 

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people who are experiencing housing and stability. 

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This is the main reason why the 

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executive director came up to me to ask if I could create this program.

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I was able to create this program along with two other staff members.

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These staff members were case managers. So they were more aware 

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of what the residence may need. 

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This program is based off of the Economic Mobility Pathways Bridge to Self Sufficiency. 

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These are the 5 essential areas needed for self sufficiency. 

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First one is family stability, health and well being, financial management, education and training and employment and career. 

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These classes will discuss and demonstrate ways to build on these 5 essential areas.

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Before the implementation of this program

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there will be a pre survey conducted

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and the survey will consist of 45 questions. 

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These questions will be qualitative and quantitative questions 

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and they will be asking the residence regarding their well being and their  financial stability 

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and management, family and friend stability. 

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These question have been validated by 

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this population. In Corvallis there is a different program

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that is called Jackson Street and they mainly focus on younger adults.

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And so the've used this survey. So Corvallis Housing First will

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also be using this survey. Just smaller tweaks into it.

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So this survey will help us gain a better understanding of 

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the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among the residents according to their self sufficiency. 

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The survey will be conducted inside the Van Buren House. Which is one of the houses that Corvallis Housing First has

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for the residence. That is where their administration office is located.

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Participants will be recruited through flyers and 

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also thought their case managers. Their case managers with be 

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highly suggesting these programs because the case 

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managers main goal is so help support the residents and help them

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build on their goals, maintain those goals and achieve those goals.

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And so my experience 

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so far interning at Corvallis Housing First has been great.

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The residence have been very welcoming on a daily basis. 

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They are always asking how I am doing and talking about their experience there.

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Random stories about their experience living on the streets.

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And so many of these residence have requested cooking classes

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and community building activities as part of the programming.

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When they got really excited when I told them we were already planning 

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having those programs. I've noticed that the residents 

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who received Social Security benefits tend to spend their money a bit more quickly.

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That is the reason why budgeting will a major component of the program.

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Food budgeting will also be included in the program, because I've observed 

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that a lot of these residence tend to horde their food

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and then keep it until it expires and then throw it away.

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They are not really sure how to use those ingredients.

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My other experience along with this internship

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has been a part of a SORT team.  SORT meaning Street Outreach Response Teams.

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Every week we tend to go

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out into the community and ask people that are experiencing 

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housing and stability and asking if they would like any housing opportunities,  

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can food, snacks, water bottles and trash bags.

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So far I know that there are 5 different groups

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but we usually are spread out across the community that way

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are targeting all the different camps around Corvallis.

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According to my experience and working with

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the residence I do have some expectations for the presurvey.

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Our goal it to reach 15 respondence

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and some of the anticipated findings are the most can make means with and without a recipe. 

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Most can think about what they eat and how it impact their health.

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Majority not being able to eat breakfast or a morning meal.

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The last one I mentioned

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not being able to eat breakfast or morning because I noticed that some residence mentioned that they are having digestive problems

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and so their best approach i guess to taking care of themselves is not eating because then they are 

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stomach doesn't take it in as well. 

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In conclusion it is expected that initial assessment of participants  will demonstrate  that there is a need to support the residence self sufficiency.

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The CHF self sufficiency programming will be providing hands on

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instructional programming as well as case management 

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to increase knowledge, support, skill accusation 

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and promote positive behaviors. Which will lead to an increase in self sufficiency and well being. 

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Bowen and Colleagues mentioned as a growing number of formerly homeless  

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Americans reside and age in permanent housing 

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supportive housing. The ability to understand and address food security needs is 

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affective waste is imperative for publish health.

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And so this 

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program is one of first programs that will be I guess assessing 

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the residence needs. This program will be

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a 12 month program. At the end of this program 

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we tend to conduct a post survey and measure 

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any changes and so CHF mentioned 

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they will continue implementing this program every year with small changes. 

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Or changes as they need. So yeah.

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Thank you.

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Hi everybody. Christina Garcia

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My pronouns are she, her, and hers.

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And I am a senior. I have been studying Community Health Communication since I have started. 

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I loved it ever since I fell in love with it. 

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I have my parents here for the first time. Visiting me and seeing me so that is really good. 

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Yeah. My mentors are here. Who have been supporting me for the past 4 years. 

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Thank you Megan for giving me this opportunity to do research

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which I have been really passionate about learning

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And she has given me the opportunity to do so and throughout 

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this experience I have been learning about food insecurity 

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and it is crazy

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I think we can all agree that we love food.

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If it's anything that we agree on, we love food. That's how we share each others experiences and culture. 

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For me I love my moms food.

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I love her food.

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Her authentic Mexican food. 

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Tacos, enchiladas, tortillas, homemade tortillas. 

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Those are down to earth... anyway.

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However our college community those of you who are on campus

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there actually exists an invisible student population who

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are experience food insecurity, who don't know, who are having

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hard time finding these resources 

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or even learning how to prepare food.

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Don't know how to do this because there is a lot of stigma,

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there's shame on students who

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are experience poverty.

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These students don't want to talk about it. These are students who are sitting in classrooms.

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Previous research shows about 20-60% of students struggle to obtain healthy and adequate

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health food. So regardless of the lack of this ability 

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there are negative impacts, the negative impacts

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are real, they exist.

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For example, over the past 30 years research has shown that

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has shown that diet and chronic diseases are linked together.

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For example, hyper tension, diabetes...

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pretty much anything you can think of

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is linked to food. If you think about it

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students who are studying are more prone in the long run

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to have hyper tension and diabetes because they are not accessing 

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those nutrients that you need.

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So before we move on I think we have already covered food insecurity and what it is. I want to be clear on how

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I am going to be referring to this. I think of it as 

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lacking inadequate food resources along the spectrum and not having enough food. 

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This is a picture of her I thought it was perfect

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She is grocery shopping thinking about electricity bill, babies, transportation.

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The purpose of doing research at least for this purpose

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is to understand WOU students point of view about 

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food literacy and food insecurity and how to address that.

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We have been conducting a needs assessment as a planning process. 

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This is important to understand. I gather the data to later identify 

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and appropriate intervention and a solution.

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Examining these students knowledge, attitudes, experiences about food

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will allow us to propose preparations, recommendations for strategy 

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planning services and policies to the methods.

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This is my favorite part. 

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Winter term and spring term Megan and I have been doing focus groups.

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We have been able to do three of them. A total of 25 students 

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and also an online student survey that was just

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we just closed it recently. 

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And through out the focus groups those were my favorite I got to listen to students 

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experiences. Observing Megan doing the focus groups and learning 

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from them. Those of you who don't know focus groups are discussion groups.

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Its a group of 6 to 9 students who are asked question about their students 

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experiences and accessing and prepping food

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and knowledge about food insecurity.

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Through the student survey we asked a lot of question about their demographics, their knowledge 

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about good insecurity and where they are coming from. 

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Through the cooking events we did this cooking event through a focus group.

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We did a little exercise about how to prepare quesadillas.

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It was really interesting to listen to the students 

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learn how to make quesadillas with peaches. Wait no not peaches. 

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Pears, apples and fruits. It was very interesting. I never would have done it until

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this focus group. The grocery tour that we just did

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focused on first generation and low income students.

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We recently did this and I thought it was 

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We went... Marion Polk County did the whole tour

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and I was just observing them. 

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The students I think there was a group of 9 students and they learned how to budget.

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They took us to 5, I think there was 5

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areas. Bread, dairy, meat... and we learned how to

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how to buy food on a $10 budget.

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And... learned about the ingredients.

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The students learned how to look through the ingredients and things to 

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watch out for. Like nutrition and vitamin D and Iron.

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Learning how to access that at a $10 budget.

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The results that we found

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the majority of the students that participated in the focus group

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were the age of 18 to 24. 

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We found out that many students were choosing to buy books over fod.

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And their students knowledge about food preparation were low.

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So for example, in the focus groups, I mentioned we were learning how to make quesadillas 

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a lot of the side conversations were 

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Oh um I often skip meals or I don't have time to cook. 

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So even though some students show that they know

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they don't have the time or the money to sometimes cook.

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Through the online survey that we just did we are currently analyzing the data.

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This is what we were able to pull out.

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What I thought was interesting that a lot of the students are actually 

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concerned about their eating habits. 

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Hard to find a time to eat a balanced meal.

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I wasn't to surprised to know that but it was good to see that on data. 

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A lot of the students who reported to the survey showed that if 

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they weren't working they wouldn't be able to pay tuition fees, or living expenses. 

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A lot of the students could not afford to attend school 

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if they had not worked while enrolled.

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This is from the surveys that we did from the focus groups. 

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A lot of the students that we got were female. 72% of them.

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A lot of them receive financial aid and work

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and their meal plan. 

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This is what we found. A question was asked

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The number of days a week students prepare meals?

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Again this is from the focus groups total of 25 participants. 

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sometimes 28%.

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So here are components of food insecurity among focus group students. 

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Students who reported I or we couldn't afford to eat balanced meals 

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On the top left reported that it was not true. The blue section sometime true and often true.

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On the right section it says the food that I bought did not last. 

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A couple limitations are that food preparation skills 

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were self report. What this means is that students reported that they know how to cook. 

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Research has shown that sometimes students over estimate 

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their knowledge and ability to cook.

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Even through we did three great focus groups,

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I think we would have been able to gather more students to get more perspectives. 

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However these we a diverse group of student participation

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and regards to living arrangements on campus

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living with family which might have had an impact on food literacy and food security experiences.

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A couple of suggestions. These are from focus groups from students of Western

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who reported that a nutrition course should

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replace one of the LACC courses because sometimes

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Students don't want to go and take a music class or an art class.

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I found that really interesting because I never thought about that

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and I think students would benefit from that. Coming from a students perspective 

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I think I would have benefited more from nutrition as an incoming freshman

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and living in the residence halls and not having a kitchen in there.

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Another suggestion is amending the residence hall food preparation policies. 

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What I mean by this is students who live on campus in the residence halls

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can only have a microwave and a fridge.

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Can you imagine yourself living  on a microwave and fridge and not having a toaster.

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Ummmm 

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A toaster due to the policy students are not aloud to have certain 

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stuff because of regulations and safety reasons. 

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Students are having a hard time accessing the key to the community kitchen.

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It's a barrier for them to take all of their stuff, check out the key

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and then go into the kitchen to find other people cooking. Provide more resources to students on campus.

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For example students don't know how to apply for the SNAP program or how to access 

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the food pantry and we are currently   

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and make current food sources more accessible. 

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Like the food pantry students are having a hard time walking all the way to the food pantry.

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In conclusion students lack of knowledge of how to prepare food

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Is the barrier that prevents students from improving dietary intake and health status.

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Like I mentioned before, not knowing how to prepare

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healthy food impacts your health status.

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Food insecurity can have a serious negative impact on students success, academic behavioral and social.

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In addition to education and student support there is a need for assistance and polices 

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that reduce the cost burden on students and families. 

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This is a big one. Even though sometimes we want to make all the changes we can

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there are barriers. We need to go advocate at the 

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Capital and make changes and make them make more coast affective.

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Ultimately this is clear that food insecurities 

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Is an issue and campus administration should 

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Respond to this and respond to student needs 

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These are a couple of pictures from Winter and Spring.

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The food survey at Abbys house and the Food Pantry helped promote.

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Recently the grocery tour from students. This is me working behind the scenes.

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That is it. So... yeah you can clap.

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The question was at the Boys & Girls club are they childen enjoying what's being grown?

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The plants are not producing fruit yet.

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We started planting late due to the fact of when I started my internship.

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There are not any fruit yet. Yesterday we actually made strawberry and tomato salsa.

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And the kids really enjoyed that because there was a couple ingredients that we had planted in the garden. 

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So they had fun creating strawberry salsa. 

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Their question was do any of us want to do any graduate work in the future?

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My plan is to apply to OHSU nursing program in the Fall.

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That was my original plan. I want to be an Patient Educator and so

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with my community healthy degree I will be teaching patients how to deal with chronic illnesses. 

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Currently I am applying jobs just really focusing on gaining some experience  

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And later on I plan to go to OSU and go into public health masters degree.

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Yes I would like to do something similar to research or something like that. 

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For me it's now I want to be a community health worker.

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I have come a long ways... I have changed my mind a couple times

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of what I want to do but I know that I want to be a community health worker for two years maybe three.

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I want to through this experience want to learn more about policies

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Because I keep finding about policies are the ones you really need to make a change to do something.

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So that is where I want to explore that field in  a way.

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After that I want to apply for a masters program

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and narrow down what I want to do with this.

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The question is since I want to pursue an inter policy 

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What do I think would be the policy that needs to be changed to address food insecurity? 

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The first thing that came up in my mind was addressing tuition. 

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It is tough and it's gonna be tough 

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I can't say that I'm going to go be a hero about it

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but I do think thats... what keeps... it's so expensive

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to come to a 4 year university or a college a community college

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I do know that if I wouldn't have 

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gotten scholarships I would be struggling 

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I already struggle to make time to eat

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So I can't imagine not having the money to do so.

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clapping 

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