Center for Family and Community Development

The Center for Family and Community Development

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    1/22/2013 - Gourmets for Gardens Benefit
    Please join The Center for Family and Community Development for the 1st annual Gourmets for Gardens benefit. Enjoy an evening of locally sourced gourmet food and drink with special musical guest Josh Ewing and featuring Melinda Hemmelgarn "The Food Sleuth" Award-winning writer, speaker, and radio host "Helping people think beyond their plates".

    Gourmets for Gardens "Food for our Future"
    1/22/13 5:30-8:30pm
    Avalon 360, 360 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Al 36602
    All proceeds benefit programs of The Center for Family and Community Development



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    CFCD Partners with The Environmental Studies Center
    We are extremely excited to announce our partnership with the Environmental Studies Center. The Environmental Studies Center (ESC), part of the Mobile County Public School System, is an experiential teaching facility designed to provide learning opportunities and resource assistance in science and environmental education that support and strengthen classroom instruction and student achievement. The Environmental Studies Center is a natural sciences education facility designed to provide unique learning experiences not typically available in the local school. The Environmental Studies Center will partner with The Center for Family and Community Develpment in their efforts to promote organic agriculture and sustainable campus programs within the Mobile County Public School System. ESC will work with The Center for Family and Community Development in the development of appropriate curriculum for use in the Mobile County Public Schools that meets Alabama and National Education standards. Appropriate staff will work with CFCD in the identification and evaluation of participating schools sites including appropriate meetings with school administrators. The Center will host and participate when appropriate in administrator, teacher and parent workshops and maintain a model campus garden on site. .

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In the last decade, the annual improvement in Americans Health has declined a shocking 69% according to the 2011 America's Health Rankings with Alabama ranked 46th, and coastal communities suffering from some of the highest poverty and obesity rates among children and adults in the nation. According to the USDA Food Environment Atlas, Mobile County has less than 5 Farmers markets, 1 or less food hubs, no farm to school programs and an abundance of communities in USDA designated food deserts. Forbes ranking of greenest states put Alabama 48th, releasing the second greatest amount of cancer-causing chemicals and generating the 4th greatest amount of hazardous waste and massive amounts of developmental toxins. We are dedicated to educating communities of the simple changes they can make that will protect, nourish and repair not only their own health but the health of the environment.With a goal of community sustainability and education, our programs will focus on educating the community at large, with a specific focus on our youth, on environmental responsibility and stewardship and the overall health and wellness benefits of eating and producing organic food, creating local food systems and economic and community development..

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