Planning: CIVIC-PG Track B: A Community-Designed Intersectional Food Access Rights for Marginalized communities (IFARM) Hub

粮食和住房安全是健康、稳定和可持续发展所必需的相互关联的背景。为满足社区确定的需要，改善城市无家可归者的食物和住房方面的成果。这一规划拨款将汇集PEH、公民和学术合作者的专业知识，以试点社区设计的、基于系统的交叉资源中心。一个面向边缘化社区的跨部门食品获取权利(IFarm)中心将与PEH和社区成员共同设计，并与支持食品和住房安全各个方面的服务、计划和倡议共同定位和联系在一起。IFarm Hub将为那些在盐湖城西侧服务不足的格伦代尔社区经历食物和住房不安全的人弥合基本食物资源和社区需求之间的差距。IFarm Hub将使用参与性的、基于系统的、交叉的方式和方法来整合住房、医疗、社会、交通和技术服务，以有意义地增加健康食品和资源的获取。通过与PEH和非营利性绿色凤凰农场(GPF)的合作，该项目将通过扩展GPF的服务并将其与其他社区组织整合，将PEH与包括营养食品在内的基本社区资源联系起来，同时评估扩大对更广泛的住房和粮食不安全人口的覆盖范围。IFarm Hub位于GPF，雇用无家可归的妇女，利用农场离网太阳能电池板的现有优势，为农场翻新的航运集装箱和回收材料提供动力，包括步入式冷藏箱、农产品包装设施、计算机实验室和办公室。IFarm Hub将被安置在这个以航运集装箱为基础的基础设施中，包括垂直空间，以增加产量，扩大GPF的季节性增长能力，并深化与当地社区的整合。拟议的研究将与PEH、社区团体和主要利益相关者密切合作，设计混合方法评估计划，以评估iFarm Hub的可行性和有效性。我们将从多个利益相关者的角度确定成功的指标，特别关注PEH确定的需求，并预计更多的PEH将增加获得营养丰富食品的机会，这将是一个关键的成效成果。为了保持对社区参与研究实践的忠诚度，我们的研究将确定代表性不足社区的关键利益相关者，根据环境卫生和社区合作者定义健康和社会结果方面的成功，得出健康和社会结果的关键指标，确定当前的连接差距，确定可持续社区中心所需的技术资源，并确定将环境卫生iFarm Hub扩展到其他可比城市环境所需的关键促进者和流程。这个项目是公民创新挑战的一部分，该挑战是由NSF、能源部车辆技术办公室、国土安全部科学和技术局以及联邦应急管理机构合作的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Food and housing security are linked contexts necessary for health, stability, and sustainability. In response to community-identified needs to improve food- and housing-related outcomes for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in an urban setting. This planning grant will bring together expertise from PEH, civic, and academic collaborators to pilot a community-designed, systems-based intersectional resource hub. An Intersectional Food Access Rights for Marginalized communities (IFARM) Hub will be co-designed with PEH and community members, and co-located and linked with services, programs, and initiatives supporting various aspects of food and housing security. The IFARM Hub will bridge gaps between essential food resources and community needs for those experiencing food and housing insecurity in the underserved Glendale community on Salt Lake City’s west side. The IFARM Hub will use participatory, systems-based, intersectional approaches and methodologies to aggregate housing, health, social, transportation, and technology services to meaningfully increase healthy food and resource access. In collaboration with PEH and the nonprofit Green Phoenix Farm (GPF), the project will connect PEH with essential community resources, including nutritious foods, by extending GPF’s services and integrating it with other community-based organizations while concurrently assessing increased reach to broader housing- and food-insecure populations. Siting the IFARM Hub at the GPF, which employs women experiencing homelessness, leverages existing strengths of the farm’s off-grid solar array, which powers the farm’s refurbished shipping containers and reclaimed materials, including a walk-in cooler, produce packaging facility, computer lab, and office. The IFARM Hub will be housed in this shipping container-based infrastructure, inclusive of vertical space, to increase production, extend GPF’s seasonal growing capacity, and deepen integration with local communities.The proposed research will work closely with PEH, community groups and key stakeholders to design mixed-methodology assessment plans to appraise the feasibility and effectiveness of the IFARM Hub. We will identify indicators of success from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives, with particular attention to needs identified by PEH, and anticipate increased access to nutrient-rich foods by larger numbers of PEH will be a key effectiveness outcome. Maintaining fidelity to community-engaged research practices, our research will identify key stakeholders in underrepresented communities, define success in health and social outcomes according to PEH and community collaborators, derive key metrics of health and social outcomes, identify current connectivity gaps, identify technological resources necessary for a sustainable community hub, and identify key facilitators and processes necessary for scaling the IFARM Hub for PEH to other comparable urban settings. This project is part of the CIVIC Innovation Challenge which is a collaboration of NSF, the Department of Energy's Vehicle Technology Office, and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and Federal Emergency Management Agency.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.