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Monday, October 19 | 10:00-11:30 am
Monday, October 19 | 10:00-11:30 am
Nourishing the Soul: A Food & Faith-Based Response to COVID-19
Nourishing the Soul: A Food & Faith-Based Response to COVID-19
COVID-19 Resilience: It Takes Locally Owned Grocery Stores
COVID-19 Resilience: It Takes Locally Owned Grocery Stores
Nourishing the Soul: A Food & Faith-Based Response to COVID-19
Nourishing the Soul: A Food & Faith-Based Response to COVID-19
- Rabbi Nate DeGroot, MJEd - Associate Director, Spiritual & Program Director, Hazon Detroit
- Minister Antonio Hill - Founder, Prayers on Plates
- The Rev. Nurya Love Parish, M.Div. - Executive Director, Plainsong Farm
When COVID-19 hit Michigan in March, food systems were quickly overturned and food insecurity worsened in devastating ways for many across the State. Prayers on Plates, Hazon Detroit, and Plainsong Farm - three faith-based organizations who represent three different religious traditions and stretch geographically from urban Detroit to rural Kent County - have each found ways to positively impact their local food systems and their communities’ access to fresh, healthy food in the midst of this pandemic. Hear stories and insights from leaders of these three organizations, who rapidly mobilized and put prayer into action by empowering gardeners, rescuing food, and ensuring neighbors were being fed. Inspired by their faith, they invite you to learn strategies for how you can deepen and expand your involvement in the movement for food justice during COVID-19 and beyond, as individuals, organizations, and faith communities driven by a desire to nourish body, soil, and soul.
COVID-19 Resilience: It Takes Locally Owned Grocery Stores
COVID-19 Resilience: It Takes Locally Owned Grocery Stores
- Bree Bode, MPH, CHES - Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University
The Detroit Food Policy Council (DFPC) and collaborators pivoted from their typical efforts (responding to the needs of the grocery store owners and consumers with a focus on economic growth paired with safe, quality, accessible food) to responding to safer grocery shopping environments as a result of COVID-19. DFPC and collaborators pivoted to prevent, promote, and protect grocery store employees and consumers from the transmission of COVID-19 by developing and disseminating a Grocer Safety Kit. In pursuit of applying best public health practices, the researchers designed and disseminated an evaluation to examine process, outcomes and community observations related to the Grocer Safety Kit use, dissemination, and safety behavior.
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