Samuel Kiranga Muthoni

 Aspects of Community Health Improvement Name Institution The Stake Holders Involves The Literacy of the Environmental Justice Partnership. There are various stakeholders in literacy towards achieving environmental justice in Bayview. This was a youth empowerment project referred to as Literacy in Environmental Justice (LEJ) which was funded by the Public Health Department under the Tobacco-Free Project (TFP) in San Francisco that began in 2002. The TFP was involved in getting a research evaluator from outside for technical and consultations. This saw the youth from Bayview local high schools recruited to Good Neighbour's project. Academic and health departments, as well as policymakers, were at any point willing to assist where possible. Consultants such as PolicyLink and the study's advisory board had their significant contributions in this program. Grants from various institutions made the program possible; these were W.K Kellogg Foundation and the University of California under the office of president and in the Dissertation Fellowship Project.\ The health problems in Bayview hunters point Bayview which was earlier referred to as Bayview Hunters Point had its residents not able to easily access foods that are nutritious which included the fruits and vegetables as large groceries had moved out from the area (Duggan, 2004; Soltau, 2004). This saw the healthy foods intake go lower by about one third and this resulted in an uptake of fatty foods. This mainly affected the segregated and poor neighbourhoods compared to the neighbourhoods that had the supermarkets which had nutritious foods. Aspects of policy developed to address food security in the community On the CBPR partnership review on the food insecurity problem, there are methods that partnership was explored and findings presented on efforts to have food security policies. The steps in this policy use relevant procedures in public participation in the policymaking process as an organized framework and therefore give the practicability of the policy. The LEJ is a youth program that is equipped with empowerment and education on environmental Justice that was funded by the Public Health department, San Francisco under the Tobacco-free Project (TFP). This formed the CBPR partnership that saw the TFP facilitating the external research evaluator and developing the focus to LEJ in the definition of food insecurity. TFP educated the youth and the community on tobacco and food globalization leading to relationship of health to corporate dominance in the food system as an integral part of LEJ partnership in definition of problem and policy intervention (Hennessey-Lavery et al., 2005) The CBPR project CBPR is a success in growing its own legitimacy and has been increasing in value as a valued approach in studying as well as finding solutions to health and social challenges from prevention of asthma(Parker et al. ,2003) to mental problems on health(Ochocka, Janzen, Nelson, 2002) and immunization (Krieger et al., 2002) The CBPR partnership had a successful pilot project that was referred to as a Good neighbour program that was more on outreach, education and behaviour change on city development. This also saw the possibility of involvement of youth in researches on policies that are to improve on environmental health in our urban centres. References Swinburn, B. A., Caterson, I., Seidell, J. C., & James, W. P. T. (2004). Diet, nutrition and the prevention of excess weight gain and obesity. Public Health Nutrition, 7(1A), 123-146.