A message from Montclair State University:
Food Deserts & People with Disabilities
Recruitment Notice
Do you live in a food desert? Are you a person with a disability? Tell us your stories!!!
This project is part of a community-based initiative to understand how common it is for people with disabilities in the United States to experience difficulty accessing sufficient amounts of healthy, nutritious, affordable, and culturally appropriate food. In this exploratory phase, we want to know what “access” and “food security” mean to you. Tell us your stories and help us modify or “crip”* the standard measures used by Food Studies scholars, so that they include perspectives of people with disabilities.
If you choose to participate, simply follow the link below to an online survey: surveymonkey.com/s/foodanddisability. If you do not want to complete the survey, you can also submit your stories anonymously via this link: surveymonkey.com/s/foodanddisability
The survey is brief and should take less than a half hour. All information will be kept completely confidential. The findings will not be associated with you in any way. All people who participate can enter a raffle to win a $50 electronic gift card. (There will be one $50 gift card for every 50 surveys submitted.)
To learn more about this IRB-approved study and/or to participate in the survey, click here: montclair.edu/chss/anthropology/research/food-disability-research
Please share widely!!! The more perspectives and different points of view that we can gather, the better! Feel free to re-post to Facebook, Twitter, etc. Help us make this project truly representative of our disability community……
Thanks in advance to all of you!
ACI, in a partnership with Montclair State University, will be hosting focus group on food deserts and people with disabilities this August. This is your opportunity to share your concerns and experiences! Your input will help devise solutions that create greater access to healthy, affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people, including people with disabilities.
