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Community Food Project
Although the Assessment addressed the community as a whole, there were four low-income groups within the downtown community specifically targeted by the Community Food Assessment, all of whom LA CAN already engages through outreach, education and organizing. These four groups are: 1) homeless people, 2) extremely low-income families, 3) people with disabilities, and 4) seniors. The resulting report, Taken for Granted: Ignoring Downtown Food Insecurity, includes recommendations to improve food Nutrition Education Information
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LA CAN recognizes food access issues as an integral part of a healthy community. In October 2004 we launched our Community Food Assessment project. The project intends to examine hunger by looking systematically at food access and the supply of nutritious affordable food in the Central City East community. The Assessment has incorporated a community asset mapping process, creating an inventory of resources, surveys of food providers and low-income and homeless people, focus groups, and other methods of collecting information about food access and sources of food in the community.
