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Trainings & Workshops
Our training and workshops fall under two classifications: Brain Food Garden Project Presents or BFGP Presents: Feeding Our Mental Health. Under the Brain Food Garden Project Presents label, we offer a wide variety of Mental Health peer-related recovery and advocacy topics. Our most recent workshops under this label have been Peer Leadership Through Public Speaking: Using Your Voice to Support Your Community & Create Positive Change a two-hour workshop created for the Urban Justice Center's Systems Advocacy 10-week program. Self-Advocacy Understanding the Power of Your Own Voice, and Red, White, Blue, and YOU: Understanding When to Vote, What You Believe In, and Your Rights both created for Baltic Street AEH, Inc. Also, under this label, we offer the first-of-its-kind training to restaurant professionals, management, and line staff, Pressure Cooker: How to Keep Your Restaurant Staff from Burning Out by Creating Sound Behavioral Health Practices and Tools.
Under the BFGP Presents: Feeding Our Mental Health label, we develop community and behavioral health peer-centric training related to Brain Food Garden Projects’ mission statement: "To promote constructive and person-centered conversations in the mental health community and beyond, regarding mindful eating and gardening as viable and important tools for behavioral health recovery." Our first training under this label was a six-hour training for the Community Access peer training program Howie the Harp Advocacy Center titled Food Justice, Food as Medicine, Shopping & Budgeting for Mindful Eating. Also, two workshops are currently in development for InUnity Alliance formerly known as The Coalition for Behavioral Health, 2025 Fiscal Year.
