The tenth class

In today's class, is exam one due. And quite mess with that...
Dr. Holben talked a lot about how to apply for RD and LD, said no matter what you did, remember to be honest. I just curious, as a international student can I apply for RD or LD?
I don't think I have go such far, I need learn much more before I apply for that quantity...

The Ninth class

Today, we have group discussion first, then Francie Astrom gave us a wonderful speaking.
She is in the wellness center in grover, and talked a lot of stuff about wellness center. It's open for college faculty, graduate student, and component. not to all people, not including undergraduate student, which I think is not make any sense. And it has a lot of service, including food consult, person training tutor, massage, and some kind of that things. It could offer some opportunities for student to join in, and Pro Francie said she would write good recommendation~! And it's also offer GA position, which make me more interested. About the funding, part of the money is come from the membership, and the rest is separated by the government and school.

The eighth class

Today, we talked about our own assignment about the agency. So many agency, and a lot of agencies are about the milk, which is quite new to me, and I don't understand why...
WIC is quite interested me, which is a special supplemental nutrition program for women infants and children. It's funding from federally by the US department of Agriulture and distributed with each state, which means it could only help as many people a year as congress provides funds, which is quite unfair. I mean if the government decide to make a program and give a rule for who to supple, doesn't it mean everyone who is quailfy could be helped?
I learned a lot, but didn't remember a lot...

The seventh class

Today, we have a guest speaker, Nick Claussen, who is working as Community Relations Coordinator, Jobs and Family services, as part of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is a government program and the funding is directly from federal, some kind of they collect the data to federal and the federal decided how much per person to give money. This program is designed to provide "a vital supplement to the food budgets", which like 3 weeks food in a month for example, of the recipients. Everyone could get this program's help is his household's gross monthly income is at or under 130 percent of the federal poverty guidelines. And there is no nutritionist in that program, but the supple gift card or credit card can't used in alcoholic beverages, tobacco, vitamins and medicines, hot food products that are prepared to be eaten immediately, no-food items.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzV5gMNpaOY This is a link for the speaker.

http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/assistance/foodstamps/foodstamps.shtml  This is a link for SNAP.

The sixth class for community nutrition

In today's class, the video we saw gave me great impression. How the bills become to a law. It's quite magic, everyone could offer a bill, and post to the higher level, then the present has the final decision. Also we learned something about NNMRRP which stand for national nutrition monitoring and related research program.

The fifth class for community nutrition

In that class, we learned something about how is food security measured. They have a guide to measuring household food security, and need do a lot of survey. They would ask a lot of questions such as during the past 12 months, you (and others) worried that food would run out before you got money to buy more, is it often true, or sometimes true, or never true. A lot of similar questions. I don't know, are these questions quite give a real situation to the government? The people could lie, in my opinion, if I was in this situation, it must be embarrass to let other people know that.

The fourth class for community nutrition

In today class, my homework for agency assignment is about Community-supported Agriculture. I think I have a lot of stuff to write... I hope...
And my group (Group B), we decided to make plan for pregnancy women.
In today class, we learned some basic stuff about food security, including what is food security, the distinguish with food security and homeland security, and how to know our food security got some problems... and how to measure food security.The food security research need to do a lot of survey and will update in a certain time line. Anyway, it is quite complex and huge work to do with this kind of survey.

Third class for community garden

This is the place we visited today, the west side community gardens. The next photo is the view from our parking place. Quite a peaceful place.

This community gardens belong to American Community Gardening Association(ACGA). And the host org is community food initiatives, started at 1995, has 100 plots. The community food initiatives manages the gardens and provides over 40 free workshops on gardening and gardening related activities to the community. Today, our instructor is Maghan Lunsford from WellWorks. We learned a lot about garden itself and how to plant a plant...
Anyway, this is my first time go to a garden to work, a lot of fun and musky... I love that place...