Growing Up: An intervention addressing childhood hunger

This semester, my peers and I were tasked with creating a multi-level public health and resilience building intervention. We were to select a topic, target audience, and ensure it connected with the CDC social ecological model. I chose to focus on childhood food insecurity in Guilford County, NC. My intervention is titled "Growing Up". This intervention  uses innovation and community collaboration to ensure every child has access to nutritious foods. The primary focus is to connect business owners with accessible roof tops to partake in a joint use agreement that would allow gardeners to grow food on the roofs, and that produce feeding children in childcare settings and school. In addition to helping close that food gap, Growing Up will also provide community classes and workshops that are free and available to parents and their children. Topics are directly created by the input and guidance of parents and delivered by local chefs or other resource. While children are my target audience here, they can only be impacted if the intervention changes the environment around them. This is why establishing partnerships and policies is central to this intervention.