Community Services Unlimited Inc'

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Community Services Unlimited Inc.

Serving The People Body and Soul!
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ACTION Community Food Assessment

• Top 3 Desired Outcomes
• 1. access to fresh, high quality, affordable
  foods
• 2. hands on training to grow own food
• 3. education on healthy eating, shopping, cooking

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Community Engaged

• Over 750 diverse community members more than
  half were youth, 60 M/CA, 40 AA, 65 women and
  35 men, in short, a reflection of our
  community.

ACTION High School interns and Planning Group
members surveying at the local Food 4 Less
during the assessment
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Key Challenge 4 Program Design

• To create programs that work towards desired
  outcomes with diverse community members as a
  central asset in every aspect of the work

A local middle school student surveying
attendees at a parent meeting at John Muir
during the ACTION assessment.
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Food Engages All

• A fit with the central theme driving our work
  since ACTION Building Community with Food
  Culture!
• We all eat and can all be engaged with some
  aspect of growing, distribution, or related
  activity, even just eating

Teacher and student from thepre-kindergardening
program plant native blackberries, which later in
the year they harvest, eat, and make jam with
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Training Teen Trainers

• CSUs From the Ground Up Youth Apprentice
  Program trains local teens and offers paid work.

Top FGU apprentices are trained in building
garden beds at EPICC which they then created with
the assistance of older youth from LACC. Bottom
FGU apprentice pruning the banana trees at
EPICC.
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Teens As Educators

• Trained youth apprentices then play a key role
  by passing on what they have learned to students
  in the Growing Healthy Program thus building
  their confidence and ownership of the work

GH Program at John Muir
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Teens Peer 2 Peer
EPICC teen program youth work alongside CSU
apprentices and learn how to compost and mulch
fruit trees
CSU apprentices address 50 volunteers about
CSUs work then lead volunteer teams/demonstrate
tasks like planting, harvesting, mulching and
preparing beds
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Seniors and Youth
Fruit Tree Giveaway Feb 07 all ages learn how
to plant/care for fruit trees
Open learn and teach gardening session EPICC
senior shows youth how to create seedlings in
pots
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Learning Disabled Adults

• The weekly Learning Disabled Adult Class is
  the newest addition to the programming and works
  on many levels to benefit all the participants.

Photos show CSU staff and youth working with
learning disabled adults an opening circle is
followed by small group work
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Vision 4 the Future
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www.csuinc.orgNeelam_at_csuinc.org
with the wonder of food!
Building Community