December 15, 2018

South Park Community Garden with Duwamish Valley Youth Corps

Student nurses: Pheroney Chea, Karina Valtierra, Lauren Kelly

Nurse Faculty: Hilary Jauregui, DNP, MN, RN

South Park is a neighborhood of south Seattle that is a mix of industrial, residential homes, and small businesses.  As community health nursing students during our ten weeks in South Park, we used the Nursing Process, Social Ecological model and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles to address a need in the community.  We collaborated with our community partner, Carmen Martinez, and the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps to mitigate food injustice and promote nutrition in South Park.  The idea of building a community garden and utilizing a greenhouse located at the Neighborhood Center was identified to address these issues.  We also wanted to build on the community’s strengths by educating the youth on nutrition with educational lessons about a healthy diet.  We planned the knowledge and experience that the Duwamish Valley Youth could develop into skills for not only health promotion, but would also strengthen the community from within.

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