So What’s to Eat in Your Neighborhood?

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So What’s to Eat in Your Neighborhood? By- Rhonda Sanders March 4, 2010 Growing Health Communities

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So What’s to Eat in Your Neighborhood?. By- Rhonda Sanders March 4, 2010 Growing Health Communities. Introductions. Access to Health Foods Sub-Committee Food Deserts Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance USDA Community Food Security Assessment. What’s the Point?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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So What’s to Eat in Your Neighborhood?

By- Rhonda Sanders

March 4, 2010

Growing Health Communities

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Introductions

Access to Health Foods Sub-Committee

Food Deserts Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance USDA Community Food Security

Assessment

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What’s the Point?

15.9% of the people in Arkansas suffer from food insecurity

Hungry children can’t learn and hungry workers can’t work

Hunger and Obesity are directly related

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Definitions

Food Insecurity Household Food Insecurity Community Food Insecurity

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What is a Community Food Security Assessment?

It is the collection of various types of data to provide answers to questions about the ability of existing community resources to provide sufficient and nutritionally sound amounts of culturally acceptable food to households in the community

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Why Conduct an Assessment? To understand local food systems

To inform the setting of goals to improve these local food systems

To inform decision making about policies and actions to improve community food security

To establish a long-term monitoring system with a clear set of indicators

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Purpose of the USDA Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit

To provide a standardized set of measurement tools for assessing various indicators of community food security.

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Components of the Assessment Profile of community socioeconomic and

demographic characteristics Profile of community food resources Assessment of household food security Assessment of food resource accessibility Assessment of food availability and

affordability Assessment of community food production

resources

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Assembling the Pieces

Things you want to know Gathering the people with the

answers Build ownership

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Data and Data Collection

Quantitative Data Qualitative Data Existing Data Original Data Compiled Uncompiled

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Data Collection Techniques

Surveys Observation Focus Groups

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Expectations of the Communities

Complete Sections 4,5,6,7 and 8 of the assessment toolkit

Much of the data will be available on a new tool called the US Food Environment Atlas

http://maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/ Return to the Alliance by June 1, 2010

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What You Will Receive

A tailored workshop in the fall to help you develop a plan to increase access to healthy foods in your community.


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