Focus Group #1 on Friday, September 24th from 9:00 - 11:00 am via Zoom

Please join us!

Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, in partnership with UBC MSc student Mikaela Hudson and the Center for Community Engaged Learning at UBC, is pleased to invite you to participate in our collaborative research-action project: Building Collective Food Security Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The goal of this project is to identify and share adaptation strategies that have helped local food security non-profits learn from and be resilient to the COVID-19 pandemic. Involvement in this project will include virtual attendance of two, two-hour Zoom focus groups (one in mid-September and mid-January), participation in two, thirty-minute web-based surveys, and self-paced engagement with the project social media campaign.

RSVP HERE to indicate your interest.

Funded by a UBC Chapman and Innovation Grant, this project strives to strengthen the resilience of local food security non-profit organizations through collaborative identification, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of “best practice” adaptation strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vancouver, BC. This project builds upon crucial findings from UBC graduate research on organizational resilience to craft a best practices toolkit of adaptation strategies with local food security non-profits. It ultimately seeks to launch an impactful knowledge-translation social media campaign to share the best practices strategies with food security non-profits within and beyond the city, and support uptake. It also aims to evaluate the impact of these strategies on the sustainability and resilience of food support services provided by such non-profits.

We are currently recruiting a city-wide group of food security workers, experts, stakeholders, and knowledge-keepers to participate in the development and dissemination of a toolkit of adaptation strategies with and for food security organizations.

Through conversation and collaborative inquiry, participants will explore how learning and resilience have emerged in their food work during the COVID-19 pandemic and interactively identify “best practice” adaptation strategies based on their experiences.

As a participant, your involvement and feedback will be vital to developing a “best practices” toolkit that reflects the local landscape of food security opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned as we move through the COVID-19 pandemic and chart a course to a sustainable post-COVID future.

Please email questions to Maria Valenzuela maria_valenzuela@lmnhs.bc.ca or Mikaela Hudson at mkareen@mail.ubc.ca – we would love to hear from you!