Subtle implication about community organizing has not been working to spur these young people to meaningful commitments to their health. So, I'll need to try a new approach to garner these commitments; these conversations on hope. I believe the following activity will do a lot in the way of generating some willingness to discuss their understanding of our health problems.
Human Sculpture / Map the Perfect / Reeducate your Neighborhood
1. Explain to young people we will be investigating what it means to be healthy, and what healthy does? Pose question: What does a healthy community do? What does a healthy family do? What does a healthy community do in the morning? When does a healthy community exercise? What does a healthy community eat? Where does a healthy community get it's food from?
2. Call up six volunteers (designed for groups of kids not used to one another because typically they aren't comfortable enough around each other) and divide the six into two groups of three. One group will be the "sculptors" and the other will be the "sculptees".
3. Explain to young people that we will be sculpting the first group into what we think a healthy family does versus what an unhealthy family does. (This is purely to scratch the surface of what these young people believe is practiced by different populations of people.) An example of a healthy family scene might be: family picking fresh fruit at the market, family cooking together, family teaching young recipes, etc. An example of an unhealthy family scene might be: eating cheesesteaks for every meal throughout the day, on a warm sunny day staying inside all day, etc.
4. Give "sculptors" 5 minutes to plan and sculpt "sculptees".
5. While volunteers are planning and sculpting, talk to others about the importance of setting healthy goals and following through: has anyone ever made any healthy plans?
6. Tell volunteers to stop after 5 minutes.
7.Ask "sculptors" to explain what they sculpted and why.
8. Ask sculptors to sculpt unhealthy families.
9. Congratulate volunteers.
10. Ask youth what their perfect healthy neighborhood would look like? How would you sculpt a perfect healthy neighborhood? (Draw map of perfect neighborhood)
11. If you were responsible for educating your neighborhood to the healthy food they have available, what would you tell them? If you were responsible for leading your neighborhood, what programs would you create?
***12. Provide food from local corner store market.
Ask young people to put together the typical breakfast
This activity is designed to spur dialogue between young people around the need for community organization and mobilization.
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