Core Values

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• Brain Food Garden Project is a peer-managed program employing certified peer advocates.
• Brain Food Garden Project is guided by the peer core values of treating everyone with kindness, dignity, respect, and patience. 
• Brain Food Garden Project practices and promotes GRATITUDE through gardening as a core value and wellness tool and believes it is the foundation upon which the Todd Petriscak Memorial Garden and our future gardens will be built.

Giving Thanks 

Refreshing the Spirit

Appreciating Little Things 

Thinking Positively 

Identifying Goodness 

Treasuring Each Moment 

Uniting in Kindness 

Delighting in Laughter 

Expressing Joy  

•   Brain Food Garden Project, when creating conversations with peer participants around mindful eating, always promotes a  Harm Reduction approach

• Brain Food Garden Project promotes 10 Dimensions of Wellness as opposed to SAMHSA's acknowledged 8 Dimensions. BFGP supports the University of Ohio's addition of a 9th Dimension, "Creative," breaking it apart from the "intellectual" dimension, and BFGP promotes breaking apart the "Physical Dimension" and creating a separate dimension, the "Nutritional Dimension,"  imperative to creating the kind of important conversations around mindful eating necessary to facilitate positive change in communities.