2018
DOI: 10.5195/jyd.2018.621
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Teens as Teachers in the Garden: Cultivating a Sustainable Model for Teaching Healthy Living

Abstract: School gardens are an ideal space to deliver a healthy living curriculum, such as nutrition and physical activity education, to elementary school youth. However, public schools often lack the resources and support to establish sustainable garden-based programming. We created the Healthy Living Ambassador program, a collaborative after-school garden program in low-income communities that brought together resources from schools, community programs, and University of California Cooperative Extension. This school … Show more

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“…Additionally, these programs allow opportunities for team building and improve peer relationships [ 62 ] while also encouraging implementation of cooking skills for younger youth at home [ 74 ]. A long-term nutrition and gardening program utilizing teen teachers for elementary-aged youth provides an excellent example and highlights the scalability of a program of this nature [ 75 , 76 ]. Applying this model employs adolescents that are culturally competent being from the same community and living within the same contexts as the younger youth they are teaching [ 76 ].…”
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“…Additionally, these programs allow opportunities for team building and improve peer relationships [ 62 ] while also encouraging implementation of cooking skills for younger youth at home [ 74 ]. A long-term nutrition and gardening program utilizing teen teachers for elementary-aged youth provides an excellent example and highlights the scalability of a program of this nature [ 75 , 76 ]. Applying this model employs adolescents that are culturally competent being from the same community and living within the same contexts as the younger youth they are teaching [ 76 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A long-term nutrition and gardening program utilizing teen teachers for elementary-aged youth provides an excellent example and highlights the scalability of a program of this nature [ 75 , 76 ]. Applying this model employs adolescents that are culturally competent being from the same community and living within the same contexts as the younger youth they are teaching [ 76 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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