The People's Money (2024-2025)
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Grow, Cook, and Thrive
- Do you have specific Neighborhood(s) in mind?
- Start a pilot program at a homeless shelter with kitchen space and a rooftop.
- Which group(s) does your idea focus on? Select as many as apply.
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People with DisabilitiesImmigrants/ MigrantsParentsUnhoused PeopleLow Income People"Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color"
- Describe the challenge you want to address:
- Bringing change to homeless shelters-DHS to reduce city wide pressure to support vulnerable people. I used to be an adult educator with 20 years hospitality and 7 years teaching.
- What is the solution to the challenge?
- Introduce a gardening and cooking arts program that is structured, implemented, and run correctly and appropriately by peers with lived experiences (grow food, cooking skills, mental health support for post traumatic growth) 1. Daily timetabled program that is planned and mapped out for the entire duration and sticks to the schedule and it is not cancelled or changed. 2. Program should be held in a suitable existing shelter. One that has ability to adapt the kitchen space to be suitable. One that has a rooftop or garden accessible or a spot one can be easily built in. 3. The people who run the program should have relevant qualifications and at least 5 years experience in hands on teaching of ayurvedic / paleo and similar healthy styles of cooking / juicing, various gardening techniques (Organic Gardening, Biodynamic, Companion Planting, Succession, Permaculture, Hydroponics, Conventional Gardening, and arts and crafts classes for vulnerable and mental health cohorts. Specialists in each of the 3 areas. There should be a dedicated contracted team of people running this to ensure its smooth execution and supported learning environment. 4. Teaching food hygiene, nutrition, healthy international cooking, gardening and arts skills in the specified areas. A skilled instructor for each class and assistants to help. Especially for the cooking classes. 5. Aside from the technical skills being taught the goals are to increase confidence, team work and trust and to develop soft skills to increase employability and decrease vulnerability.
- Please provide your Zip Code
- 10002
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