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GOOD FOOD
Youth Engagement Toolkit
PURCHASING PROGRAM With the Center for Good Food Purchasing, we are creating our first
HIGHLIGHTS youth-focused engagement toolkit pilot with Bay Area school districts
and community organizations, drawing from 15 interviews with seasoned
leaders in the fields of youth and food system advocacy and organizing.
The toolkits will feature supplemental content curated from 46 curricula
and resources and several media and film highlights for each of the five
value categories with hands-on activities and discussion.
School districts are at the forefront of public institutions that have
adopted the Good Food Purchasing Program to date around the United
States. So it's with good reason that we want to ensure students are at
the table, expressing their hopes for how their food system represents
them and how they can steer it in a more just, fair, healthy, and humane
direction through policies like the Good Food Purchasing Program. In
each of the school districts working to adopt and implement the
Program, we hear people ask: how can youth get involved? This toolkit
connects the dots. It isn’t meant to tell youth what to care about, but to
help them understand how the food system impacts them, and how they
can, in turn, impact the system. Following the regional pilot, coalitions
across the country have shown high interest in bringing the toolkit to
their communities.
Good Food Purchasing Program Honored in Rome
The Good Food Purchasing Program received an honorable mention in
the Future Policy Awards by the World Future Council, highlighting the
world's best policies for promoting sustainable food systems. Real Food
Media supported the media and promotion of the announcement across
social and web platforms.
Alexa Delwiche and Paula
Daniels, co-founders of the
Center for Good Food
Purchasing receive the Future
Policy Award at  UN
Headquarters in Rome, October
2018
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