CFPAC Working Group Sessions March 18, 2011
Come participate in the following Working Group Sessions and directly contribute to policy recommendations and advocacy strategies for the City of Chicago.
Working Group Breakout Sessions will be on the following
topics of interest:
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Teaching and Eating in the Garden: Enabling educators to utilize the school
garden in their curriculum and find new models for nutrition education - 11:30-1:00
Establishing and
incorporating gardens into schools' curriculum is a priority. Nutrition education
must embrace a broader understanding of the ecological, personal and social
impact of the foods we eat. School
gardens provide an unparalleled opportunity for engaging in the food system and
illustrating it's complexity. Educators
must be provided tools with which to fully utilize these gardens.
Participants will walk
away with the motivation and inspiration to begin growing edible plants as
educational tools in a way that can scale to their needs, be that small herb
plants in the classroom or a larger in situ garden. Recognition of the school garden as an opportunity to
teach a wide variety of subjects and skills including: biology, history, team
work, math, writing, etc. Strategies to encourage student, parent, community and
teacher involvement in the school garden. Ability to instruct
students in Taste Education.
(Facilitator: SlowFood - Megan Larmer,
Chicago Rarities Orchard Project; Lynn Hyndmann, Dawes Elementary School; Jason
Greenberg, Chicago Waldorf School; Jennifer Sandy, PreSERVE Community Garden)
www.slowfoodchicago.org � www.dawesschoolgarden.net � www.chicagowaldorf.org � www.edibleschoolyard.org
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SNAPshots: A Visual Conversation about Hunger and SNAP
Benefits on the Northside of Chicago - 11:30-1:00
SNAPshots is
an interactive photography exhibit that explores the realities of hunger and
SNAP benefits on the Northside of Chicago.
This workshop challenges stereotypes of poverty, food aid,
policy-making, and Chicago�s North and Southside divide by asking what is
�within reach� when people have access to SNAP benefits.
As a result
of this session, summit attendees will be more aware of the landscape of the
2012 Farm Bill, specifically the role the farm bill plays in the SNAP
program. Because of this, Chicago
organizations will be better equipped to decipher policy recommendations within
this bill and to speak to the need that unites all areas of the city.
(Facilitators:
Erin Edwards, Northside Anti-Hunger Network; Kelly Viselmand and Anita Denes,
EZRA; Lara Ignoffo, Deborah's Place)
www.northsideantihunger.org
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SNAP/EBT
Support at Farmers Market - 11:30-1:00
This session will target the following policy
recommendations:
Support and ensure proper funding for
HB4756 (Farmers Market Technology Improvement Act) which will provide IL
farmers markets and farm-direct selling venues with the funds to purchase an
EBT machine, cover servicing/processing fees, and cover outreach costs. Please
note that the bill was signed by Governor Quinn in July 2010.
Support City of Chicago Farmers
Market�s EBT program. The 2010 pilot season was tremendously successful (#1 EBT
farmers market pilot program in the United States, as well as setting
single-day and season records for SNAP redemption at IL farmers markets). In
2011, we would like to expand the program to twice the number of markets (10)
but need funding from the City of Chicago.
Participants
to come away with:
- Local and national policy updates
- EBT/SNAP/WIC how-to�s for farmers
markets and other local fresh-food venues
- Overview of the growth of SNAP
redemption at farmers markets in, Chicago, Illinois and around the country
- Understanding of what makes a farmers
market SNAP program a success, as well as the challenges
- Understanding of food deserts and food
access issues for low-income communities
- Understanding that the process of
getting authorization for FNS/USDA is now easier than ever
(Facilitators: Dennis Ryan, Experimental Station; Corey
Chatman, Experimental Station; Pat Stieren, IL Farmers Market Network)
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Urban
Agriculture Zoning and Policy 101 - 2:30-3:50
This
session will explore the Urban Agriculture Zoning Ordinance for the City of
Chicago. We will focus on the following
issues:
- The basics of zoning as a guide to city
land use and other decisions
- Information
on Chicago�s current and proposed policies
- Examples
of progressive zoning policies in other cities
Join us to learn more, contribute to
supportive urban agriculture zoning policy recommendations!
(Facilitators: CFPAC & AUA - Kevin Pierce, Resource
Center/City Farm; Patsy Benveniste, Chicago Botanic Garden, Amy Beltemacchi,
Root-Riot Harambee Garden; Paul Hardej, City Micro Farms, LLC)
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Illinois
Stewardship Alliance's Grassroots Policy Committee: Advocating for Your, From
Farm to Fork - 2:30-3:50
In order
to increase communication and coordination about policy issues amongst Illinois
local food and farm stakeholders, ISA has organized several regional grassroots
policy meetings during the month of March. This breakout session will serve as
ISA's Chicago regional policy meeting.
The goals of this regional meeting are to:
1. Introduce Chicago area stakeholders to ISA�s
grassroots policy efforts.
2. Garner input on the critical policy issues facing
stakeholders in the Chicago area that are building local food systems.
3. Educate attendees about ways they can get
involved with the policy making process in Illinois.
4. Educate attendees about relevant local food
related policy initiatives and legislation on the state level in Illinois.
(Facilitators:
Wes King, ISA; Lindsay Record, ISA)
www.ilstewards.org � www.facebook.com/ilstewards
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Level of Food Safety: Procurement of School Food Supply Purchases - 2:30-3:50
The focus of
this session will be on the procurement of school food produced by
corporations, farms and diaries that operate under just and ethical principles
and recognize that safe food comes from workers in safe working conditions.
Participants
will leave the session with a broad-based understanding of the obligation of
policy makers to our children that ensures a school food supply procurement
process that employs ethical principles for both health, good and safe food in
conjunction with safe and just working conditions for food industry
workers.
(Facilitators: Charlotte Williams, Center for New Community;
Natasha, Former worker, Tyson Meats; Loretta Horton, LSSI)
www.newcomm.org
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Innovation
or Infractions? Making the Urban
Agriculture We Want - 4:00-5:20
Rules and policies
inherently lag behind new practices, methods, and/or change that occurs by necessity.
Infractions to existing policy may also be necessary and useful innovations that can grow
more food, recycle nutrients, and transform vacant land and buildings in Chicago.
How can we, as growers in
Chicago, try out innovations, learn from each other, practice better methods, support
each other's projects, and work with the City to adapt and adopt new ways and policies into
the future?
We�ll ask:
a) How visionary, adaptive,
flexible, and explicit do we need UA policy to be, and how do we preserve the option
to change it?
b)
How can we build strategic coalitions and nurturing, supportive contextoptions
and advancing edges -- protecting innovators and pilot projects?
(Facilitators: AUA - Martha Boyd, Angelic Organics Learning
Center, Ryan Anderson, Delta Institute; Lyndon Valcenti, Chicago Department of
Environment)
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WE ARE WHAT WE EAT: FOOD ACCESS AND ITS IMPACT ON COMMUNITY
HEALTH - 4:00-5:20
Food access
is directly related to a community�s food environment; whether or not people
have easy access to a variety of healthy, affordable and fresh foods. A poor and inadequate food environment not
only has a negative impact on the health of the community at large but also on
the health of the individuals in that community.
Participants
will come away with an understanding of (a) how a communities food environment
affects community and individual health outcomes, (b) how food access relates
to community power, (c) ways in which communities and individuals can be better
empowered to participate in health decision making and (d) the specifics of the
Illinois Fresh Food Fund and concrete ways that people can influence policy
development and implementation.
(Facilitators: Danny Block, Chicago State University; James Bloyd, Cook County Department of Public
Health, Terri Johnson, Jane Addams Hull House)
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Innovative
Local Policies that Challenge the Fast Food Industry and
Protect
Children�s Health - 4:00-5:20
This session will explore Local Policies challenging fast food industry
practices, such as marketing, that endanger children�s health and create
unhealthy food environments.
Participants will
come away with: An understanding of how the fast food industry impacts
children�s health through marketing; A menu of local
policy options that challenge the fast food industry and protect children�s
health; Case Studies and lessons learned on corporate
interference in local policy; An understanding of
how to integrate legislative elements into a corporate campaign.
(Juliana Shulman, Corporate
Accountability International, Alfred David Klinger, retired physician)
www.stopcorporateabuse.org
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