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1. Respondent Details
Name of Funding Body
VicHealth – Social Innovation Incubator
Address
23, Red Street, Victoria
Name of Contact Person
D.Samuel
Title or Organisation Position for Contact Person
Project Coordinator
Phone
+6123458762
Email
[email protected]
Proposal Title: Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for Women in Indigenous Communities
Abstract
The Proposal elaborates the extension of Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program to the Australian Aboriginal Communities, to improve their health disparities. Indigenous people are recorded to have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, high mortality, high BP, high incidence of diabetes, digestive issues, respiratory issues and high rates of hospitalization.
The New Program aims to promote health practices in Indigenous Communities through a series of interventions like Cooking Classes, Growing Organic Foods, Education to promote healthy food behaviours, food choices and lifestyle changes.
The schedule of Program is to be planned for two years imparting the participation from clinicians, dieticians, trainers, garden experts and kitchen experts. The Program will be funded and supported by the state government, and other funding agencies. The proposal also outlines the potential budget and resources to be used in the implementation of the program.
Background
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program (started in 2001) is an established school based, curriculum integrated program that provides an opportunity to the children for gardening, cooking and sharing seasonal, and nutritious food (Dwyer et al, 2016). The Program is offered in different schools of Australia through collaborative partnership from the generous individuals, Victorian Government and several philanthropic foundations. The current SAGP is targeted to children aged 8-12 years, studying in the grades 3-6. The SAGP identified inequities based on rather low level of social interaction of kids from the families of indigenous communities. Many students had linguistic problems which restricted their learning opportunities. The Project excluded the elderly people who might be affected by poor nutrition.
Needs Assessment Description
Fig.2. Showing Difference in health status of Indigenous and Non Indigenous Australians. (Source: Health Performance Framework, 2017)
The Fig.2 shows 88% of the Aboriginal people of age 55% or more suffer from at least one chronic health condition while 55% suffer from more than 3 long term diseases. The older Adults of Indigenous communities have worse health status than the younger people. The most evident contrast in health status of the indigenous communities has been observed in last few years.
Image 3. Showing the urgent need of Health Reforms as experienced by the Aboriginal People and expressed through the posters and hand expressions.
Indigenous people are recorded to have lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, high mortality, high BP, high incidence of diabetes, digestive issues, respiratory issues and high rates of hospitalization (Nichols, 2015).
Image 4 showing the vulnerable and nutrient deficit health status of the women and children in these communities.
I assert the Community Health Services to expand the SAGP to reach the Indigenous Communities in Australia as this program has been extremely beneficial at schools in improving the child engagement, knowledge, and in promoting school community relations.
Image 5 showing the clear differentiation of food items to be eaten (mostly, sometimes and little bit) in diabetes.
Image 6 Showing the sorting of green vegetables with hands
Image 7 showing the cultivation, and growth of Organic Vegetables in the Community Garden
5. Aims
The aim of the new project is Health promotion in Indigenous Communities through a series of interventions like Cooking Classes, Growing Organic Foods, Education to promote healthy food behaviours, food choices and lifestyle changes.
The Program will focus on providing nutrient knowledge about the affordable food sources, improving their willingness to eat seasonal vegetables in regular diet.
6. Objectives
The Program will be implemented in the Aboriginal Populations of Victoria for the next 2 years through kitchen gardens and garden based nutrition programs. The Program is expected to achieve:
· Increased adoption of healthy Food,
· Improved knowledge about growing the organic foods, and cooking.
· Improved awareness to make healthy food choices, and changes in eating habits;
· Reduction in the incidence of rate of persistent diseases in the community during the next three years time.
The Evaluation of the Program will be done after completion of 2 years of implementation to find out the success of...