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Los Angeles County:
ACTION:
Food Assessment Report 2003-2004
This assessment, fueled solely by volunteer power and in-kind
donations, took place from May 2003- January 2004. Over 350
adults and 350 youth participated in the ACTION food assessment
at 18 diverse sites in South Central Los Angeles. The assessment
was a truly participatory process and included four phases including
1) a Community Food Mapping process, 2) speaking with community
awareness and concern about nutrition and food access issues,
3) designing, piloting, and evaluation of tools by residents,
and 4) implementation of assessment tools to engage residents,
gather data, and generate conversation on food access issues.
Click here to download PDF in English
& Spanish
Contact: Neelam Sharma, Community Services Unlimited Inc., neelam@csuinc.org
http://www.csuinc.org
Case Study
Lessons Learned By Five
California Food Assessment Projects
Duarte Community Food Assessment 2003
The Center for Community and Family Services enlisted the help
of the Teen Nutrition Council (a project of the City of Duarte)
along with Cal State LA students to conduct the surveys that
were the backbone of the CFA project in Duarte. Three surveys
were used including: The Faith Based Organizational Survey,
the Store Survey, and the Consumer Survey. No preliminary results
or report are available at this time.
Survey
Duarte County Store Survey
Case Study
Lessons Learned By Five
California Food Assessment Projects
Hollywood Food Needs Assessment Report 2002-2003
From October 2002 through September 2003, the California Nutrition
Network funded the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness
to administer a Food Needs Assessment for the Hollywood area
of Los Angeles. Specifically, the Assessment collected information
from focus groups, surveys and community meetings, as well as
an inventory of grocery stores to determine what were the barriers
to obtaining sufficient food among three low-income groups living
in the area. Those groups are the homeless (and at-risk), low-income
families, and low-income seniors. The project had profound results
including only 17% of all the participants surveyed eat 5 servings
of fruit and vegetables per day, and only 20 % of all participants
surveyed are currently receiving food stamps. It also led to
the formation of new partnerships among nutrition and anti-hunger
advocates, and also involved some of the poorest people in Hollywood
in a project designed to lead to improvements in their lives.
Click here to download PDF
file of report
Contact: Frank Tamborello and Rose McGuire, LA Coalition to
End Hunger and Homelessness, frank@lacehh.org,
http://www.lacehh.org,
213-439-1070
Surveys
Hollywood Community Action Network
Store Survey
Hollywood Community Action
Network Consumer Survey
Case Study
Lessons Learned By Five
California Food Assessment Projects
Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Intake Through
WIC 2002
This project was coordinated by a PhD student at the UCLA School
of Public Health. The overall objective was to increase the
consumption of fruits and vegetables among postpartum women
and their families participating in the Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in an
effort to lower their cancer risk.
Contact: Dena Herman, UCLA School of Public Health, dherman@ucla.edu
Survey
WIC Fruit & Vegetable
Consumption
Community Involvement Groups - Voices for
the Strategic Planning Process 2000
This assessment was part of the Los Angeles Project LEAN' s
strategic planning process focused on the health and eating
habits of two groups of women, one Hispanic and one African
American.
Contact: Jean Tremaine, County of Los Angeles Department of
Health Services, jtremaine@ladhs.org
Seeds of Change: Strategies for Food Security
for the Inner City 1993
The product of a year's work for six researchers
(Linda Ashman, et. al.; UCLA Urban Planning Dept.), Seeds of
Change is perhaps the most thorough documentation of an urban
community's food system. It includes sections on hunger, nutrition,
food industry, supermarket industry, community case study, farmers'
markets, urban agriculture, joint ventures, and food policy
councils.
Go
to the Order Form (400+ pp) ($30 + shipping)
Contact: Andy Fisher, Community Food Security Coalition, andy@foodsecurity.org
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