Jennifer M Parlin

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• Parlin, J. M. (2023). Steps to Becoming a Certified School Garden. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
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  Revision of the article Steps to Becoming a Certified School Garden to include updated information and resources.
• Parlin, J. M. (2022). How to Find Children's and Young Adult Books That Can Help Caregivers Promote Anti-Racism. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
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  Other authors include  Katherine E. Speirs  Jennifer Parlin  Jennifer Argyros  Ashley L. Dixon-Kleibe  Christy Stuth  Shevonda Joyner
• Parlin, J. M. (2022). Promote Anti-Racism Using Children's Books: A Parents' Guide. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
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  Other authors include: Ashley L. Dixon-Kleibe  Jennifer Argyros  Daniela Pacheco  Ben Downer  Katherine E. Speirs  
• Parlin, J. M., Filer, P., McDonald, D. A., Stork, J., & Parker, J. (2021). Growing Herbs for the Health of It!. Cooperative Extension Publication.

Presentations

• Parlin, J. M. (2024, January). Masters of Public Health Service Learning Class at The Garden Kitchen. Masters of Public Health Service Learning Class. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona's MEZCOPH.
• Parlin, J. M., Whitmer, E. B., & Glaubach, M. (2024, May). PLAZA Mobile Market: Bringing Local Produce to the Community. National Health Outreach and Engagement Conference 2024. Greenville, SC: University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, Clemson.
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  Food insecurity is found at high rates throughout marginalized communities in the US (1). Resilient local food systems can address such issues but need significant public and private systemic support. With investment from the community and key partners, mobile markets can support a thriving food culture. The PLAZA Mobile Market supports two equally important objectives. In areas with high food insecurity, the PLAZA mobile market sells locally grown produce at deeply discounted prices that are payable with government assistance programs like SNAP-EBT, Double Up Bucks, and the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. The market’s locations are at trusted community institutions, and involve trusted community partners, to meet the community where they live, work, and play. This helps eliminate transportation issues, a known barrier to purchasing local produce by low-income populations (2,3). The market aims to inspire participant conversations around produce available for sale and participants are educated through dialog with staff, seasonal recipes, and food demonstrations made with the market's produce. The market is designed this way because, research shows mobile markets, coupled with taste testing events, have been shown to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables by low-income participants (4). The program also supports the local food economy, by buying directly from farmers at fair-market value. This removes a large barrier for small producers by taking on the time, energy, and financial risks that a farmers’ market requires. Our market buys primarily from Black women refugee farmers, in response to research showing that Black farmers and women farmers earn less farm-related wealth than their white and male counterparts, respectively (5). Program evaluation is conducted through surveys to learn customer demographics, their experience with farmers markets, barriers in produce consumption, andhow they heard about the market. Surveys also focus on program improvements, for example, ideal times and days for the market as well as preferred accompanying education and programming. This program was formed after many community conversations, including focus groups of SNAP-eligible community members, farmer interviews, a pilot market at an affordable housing site, and planning meetings with local leaders. A detailed inventory is kept, to record the amount of fresh local produce available and sold in the community. This presentation covered the process of developing the mobile market, challenges related to financial processes and navigating government assistance programs, and lessons learned. Conference participants learned steps in developing a mobile market and best practices in running a mobile market.
• Walsh, M. E., Parlin, J. M., & Curley, D. L. (2024, September).

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  . Statewide Town Hall. Zoom: UA Cooperative Extension.
• Whitmer, E. B., Stewart, R. E., Parlin, J. M., Bawden, M. K., Wilson, H., Aspengren, C., Speirs, K., Wright, A. D., Armstrong Florian, T. L., & Martinez, C. L. (2024, June). Collective Engagement to Change Health Outcomes . Annual Arizona Rural Health Conference. Flagstaff, AZ: Arizona Center for Rural Health (AzCRH).
• Whitmer, E. B., Stewart, R. E., Parlin, J. M., Bawden, M. K., Wilson, H., Aspengren, C., Speirs, K., Wright, A. D., Armstrong Florian, T. L., & Martinez, C. L. (2024, May). Collective Engagement to Change Health Outcomes . 2024 National Health Outreach Conference. Greenville, SC: Extension Foundation and Roger Rennekamp.
• Parlin, J. M. (2023, October). The Garden Kitchen, a Whole Health Program from the University of Arizona’s Cooperative Extension.. 2023 Food Safety conferenceUniversity of Arizona Food Safety Consortium.
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  The Garden Kitchen's programming in the context of community and small business food safety education.
• Parlin, J. M., & Bell, C. E. (2023, May). Food as Medicine, the Importance of Culinary Skills in Culinary Medicine. Arizona Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual ConferenceArizona Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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  Learning culinary skills increases the appeal of a meal visually, the smell, and the taste. Having a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and lower in salt, sugar, fat, and preservatives is one way to work toward prevention of diet related conditions. Food demostration that highlights the usefulness of different culinary techniques when participants cook for themselves.
• Parlin, J. M., & Beltran, E. (2023, April). Pascua Yaqui Partnership and Progress, Creating a Culturally Relevant and Trauma Aware Garden Space. LIA Colloquium for Arizona Health Zone Annual Statewide ConferenceADHS.
• Parlin, J. M., & Garcia, G. (2023, April).

  Engaging the community as an Extension leader while creating opportunities for sustainable community leadership.

  . Western Extension Leadership Development. The Garden Kitchen.
• Parlin, J. M., & Wilson, H. (2023, October). Farm to Early Care and Education: Food Education and Gardening. Fit and Healthy Kids, Web-Based Sessions for Early Childhood ProfessionalsUniversity of Nebraska.
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  Farm to Early Care Education (ECE) offers unique hands-on learning experiences. This workshop will cover and demonstrate examples of two pillars of Farm to ECE programs, food education and gardening activities, that can be used to supplement classroom learning and align with Early Learning Standards.
• Parlin, J. M., Parlin, J. M., Stewart, R. E., Stewart, R. E., Daugherty, B., Daugherty, B., Novak, A., Novak, A., Pearson, C. L., Pearson, C. L., Waters, T., & Waters, T. (2023, August). Safe and Sound: Dos and Don'ts of Food Handling and Storage at Community Events and Food Demonstrations . 2023 Arizona Cooperative Extension Conference Building the Future of Extension Through Multi-Disciplinary CollaborationArizona Cooperative Extension.
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  Understanding the importance of food safety as an Extension professional.
• Reinhold, D., Wilson, H., Barber, D., & Corbus, J. (2023, September). NEAFCS Awards Boot Camp. 2023 NEAFCS Annual Session. Providence, RI: National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
• Parlin, J. M. (2021, December). STEAM Education through cooking. 21st Century School Share Fair. Pima County: 21st Century School Grant.
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  Training for Arizona K-12 teachers on how to teach STEAM concepts through cooking with students.
• Parlin, J. M. (2021, April). Early Child Care Gardening Live Discussion. Arizona Department of Education's Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network for Farm to Early Child CareArizona Department of Education'.
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  Presentation to statewide participating early child care centers on how to integrate a garden into their classrooms. Included technical assistance for planning and maintaining a garden, how to accomplish early learning standards with garden education, and resources to get started.
• Wilson, H., & Parlin, J. M. (2021, May). Early Care and Education Coordination and Supply Chain. 2021 Virtual Annual Conference: AZ Health Zone in Your Communities. Virtual: AZ Health Zone / Arizona Department of Health Services.

Poster Presentations

• Parlin, J. M., Whitmer, E. B., Garcia, G., Derfus, R., Aspengren, C., Tyndall, E., Bernal, A., Atkin, A., Sparks, E. W., & Arteaga, C. (2023, August). Mobile Produce Market. 2023 Arizona Cooperative Extension Conference Building the Future of Extension Through Multi-Disciplinary CollaborationArizona Cooperative Extension.
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  Poster presentation included lessons learned while planning for the Mobile Produce Market program, community engagement results from both producers and end users prior to the launch of the program, initial results of the program, and next steps.
• Parlin, J. M., Whitmer, E. B., Garcia, G., Derfus, R., Aspengren, C., Tyndall, E., Bernal, A., Atkin, A., Sparks, E. W., & Arteaga, C. (2023, September). Mobile Produce Market. 2023 NEAFCS Annual Session. Providence, RI: National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
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  Poster presentation included lessons learned while planning for the Mobile Produce Market program, community engagement results from both producers and end users prior to the launch of the program, initial results of the program, and next steps.
• Whitmer, E. B., Whitmer, E. B., Stewart, R. E., Stewart, R. E., Sekaquaptewa, S. K., Sekaquaptewa, S. K., Pearson, C. L., Pearson, C. L., Parlin, J. M., Parlin, J. M., Novak, A., Novak, A., Martinez, C. L., Martinez, C. L., Daugherty, B. R., Daugherty, B. R., Bawden, M. K., Bawden, M. K., Aspengren, C., , Aspengren, C., et al. (2023, August). Food Safety! What’s Family, Consumer, and Health Sciences Got to Do with It?. 2023 Arizona Cooperative Extension Conference: Building the Future of Extension Through Multi‐Disciplinary Collaboration. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
• Whitmer, E. B., Whitmer, E. B., Whitmer, E. B., Stewart, R. E., Stewart, R. E., Stewart, R. E., Pearson, C. L., Pearson, C. L., Pearson, C. L., Novak, A., Novak, A., Novak, A., Bawden, M. K., Bawden, M. K., Bawden, M. K., Armstrong Florian, T. L., Armstrong Florian, T. L., Armstrong Florian, T. L., Parlin, J. M., , Parlin, J. M., et al. (2023, September). Utilizing Decision Trees to Help Local Food Micro-entrepreneurs Navigate Food Safety Laws and Regulations. 2023 NEAFCS Annual Session. Providence, RI: National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
• Wilson, H., Martinez, C. L., Wilson, H., Parlin, J. M., Pearson, C. L., Parlin, J. M., Novak, A., Bawden, M. K., Bawden, M. K., Armstrong Florian, T. L., Whitmer, E. B., Armstrong Florian, T. L., Stewart, R. E., Stewart, R. E., Stewart, R. E., Whitmer, E. B., Armstrong Florian, T. L., Whitmer, E. B., Novak, A., , Novak, A., et al. (2023, August). Development of an Online Tool to Guide Small Food Businesses through the Requirements of Arizona Cottage Food Program. 2023 Arizona Cooperative Extension Conference: Building the Future of Extension Through Multi‐Disciplinary Collaboration. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
• Wilson, H., Novak, A., Parlin, J. M., & Stuth, C. L. (2023, March). Arizona Cottage Food Program: Utilizing Decision Trees to Help Local Food Micro-entrepreneurs Navigate Food Safety Laws and Regulations. 2023 ALVSCE Research Poster Forum. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
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  The goal of this event was to showcase all programs and projects at ALVSCE, including work done in Academic Units and Cooperative Extension, and to foster collaboration
• Stuth, C. L., Parlin, J. M., Novak, A., & Wilson, H. (2022, August). Arizona Cottage Food Program: Utilizing Decision Trees to Help Local Food Micro-entrepreneurs Navigate Food Safety Laws and Regulations. 2022 Arizona Cooperative Extension Conference: Creating Connections: Change, Challenge, Community. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.

Other Teaching Materials

• Parlin, J. M. (2021. Desert Foods for a Resilient Future. Arizona Institutes for Resilience.
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  The University of Arizona and community organizations partnered to broaden public awareness of our regionally distinct, desert-adapted food plants. A grant from the Arizona Institutes for Resilience supported collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center, Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardener Program and The Garden Kitchen, Mission Garden, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and Borderlands Restoration Network to promote climate-smart, nutritious food plants well-suited to the Sonoran Desert climate. In the spring and summer of 2021, a limited run of educational workshops empowered Tucsonans to cultivate, harvest, and savor desert-adapted foods.
• Parlin, J. M., & Garcia, G. (2021. Arizona Department of Health Services Food Demonstration Training materials. Arizona Department of Health Services.
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  Developed materials for food demonstration training of SNAP-Ed professionals. SNAP-Ed staff are required to go through this training once every five years to gain knowledge on food safety, how to run virtual food demonstrations with participants, and how to run in-person food classes.