Research & Practice
Food Program Needs Assessment for the Garfield Teen Life Center
Garfield Teen Life Center (GTLC) is a teen focused community center of Seattle Parks and Recreation located in the Central District of Seattle, Washington. This project engaged diverse inner-city teen life center’s participants to describe perceived needs, knowledge, and beliefs about food & nutrition. Strong standing relationship between the nutritionist at Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic and the GTLC. A Recreation Specialist returned GTLC in Sept. 2013 and expressed interest in expending the nutrition programs. Assessment of nutrition awareness and food justice at GTLC and within the Central District was required to determine if nutrition programs could maintain attendance and provide meaningful benefit to participants.
The goal of this project was to assess the current GTLC food and nutrition programs and make recommendations for future directions, including 1) identifying and describing participants’ food and program interests, and 2) introducing participants to innovative recipes, concepts of food, social, and economic justice.
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Project Type(s): MPH Practicum, PH Concentration Poster
Author(s): Alexandra Kaufman
Program(s): Master of Public Health, RDN Training
Year: 2014
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