‘Health’ Archives
Growing the Backyard CHAT
Growing the Backyard CHAT”'s partner, Community Table Coop, organizing a processing team to preserve potatoes for winter consumption. The Growing in the Backyard CHAT is poised to build a sustainable community food system in a collaborative network that integrates sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption and waste management in order to enhance the environmental, economic and social health of Backyard residents. Farmers, consumers and communities in our CHAT partnered to create a more locally-based, self-reliant food economy. The Growing the Backyard project empowered Backyard residents to produce their own healthy foods, increase connection to the local food system and each family”'s understanding of how the local food system works. From May through October, weekly deliveries of locally grown fresh produce were distributed throughout the Backyard area. Overall goals achieved by our project include: (more…)
A Story Describing the Achievements of the ANCHOR FAMILY CHAT
Mr. Younger lives in the BYI area in an apartment building with 50 units. Every day, he checks in on his neighbors and asks if there is any way he can help. Just this week, he wrote three letters for neighbors who are unable to write because of having strokes. He gets groceries for his neighbors who are homebound. He even makes sure there is cake and ice cream in the recreation room of his building when one of his neighbors has a birthday. There are many elderly residents living on limited incomes in the building who had difficulty receiving their rental reimbursement checks. They were falling behind in their rental payments, putting their housing security at risk. Mr. Younger reached out to a contact at the Court House and was able to get a person to come out to the apartment building to complete the necessary forms for them to continue receiving their rental reimbursements and keep their housing. - as told to an invited guest at an All CHATS [...]
Out In The Backyard CHAT (OIBY) 2013 Achievements!
Conducted over 200 classes in Zumba, Yoga, Hip-hop, Bollywood, Self-defense, nutrition and more in partnership with Minneapolis”'s Powderhorn Park and East Phillips Park Community Centers 9 Circle of Healing groups  Hosted 5 Community Dinners and 11 Community Potlucks Wrote 2 articles in The Alley Newspaper Organized two major community events - Holi and Dandiya festivals Participated at Powderhorn 24, Pride Festival, Midtown Global Market Music Festival, Allina”'s research studies Participated in health care survey with Rainbow Health Initiative Participated over 40 times in various BYI meetings such as BYI Commission, BYI Assessment Committee, BYI Research Committee, and monthly All-CHAT meetings. In 2014: OIBY is getting ready for a fun 2014. Brain games and LGBT documentary movies (DVDs) have been purchased for game and movie nights in 2014. We have over 500 likes in Facebook and we are growing every month. We have an interactive [...]
