With support from Ohio State University Connect and Collaborate initiative we are expanding Urban GEMS to Parsons Avenue.
Planting Urban GEMS Youth Work in South Columbus will engage approximately 100 vulnerable youth to empower them in partially addressing food insecurity in their own community by growing healthy foods and contributing to community wellness/healthy eating movement. Planting Urban GEMS will establish an aeroponic food production facility to provide positive youth development opportunities for 14-22 year olds in South Columbus. This Connect and Collaborate funded project melds the innovations and youth engagement of the Urban GEMS initiatives with work of the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association to create greater potential for sustainability and larger community impacts.
Team Lead:
Deanna Wilkinson, College of Education and Human Ecology
Ohio State Partners:
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
OSU Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Education and Human Ecology
OSU Extension
External Partners:
RHH4-Life
Men for the Movement
Ministries 4 Movement
CD4AP
Local Matters
Southside CAN
Family Missionary Baptist Church
Parson’s Avenue Merchant’s Association
Millennium Community School
Pure Motion Creative
Franklin Park Conservatory
Juice Plus/Tower Gardens
Africentric Personnel Development Shop
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Gardens
