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Flourish: Combating Food Insecurity & Promoting Wellness On A College Campus, Jocelyn Zavala
Flourish: Combating Food Insecurity & Promoting Wellness On A College Campus, Jocelyn Zavala
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MOTIVATION In the past, it has been assumed that students enrolled in college are fairly privileged individuals unlikely to face challenges associated with poverty (Haskett et al., 2020). That assumption has been challenged in the past few decades and a survey released last year by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice indicated that 45% of today’s higher education students face food insecurity (Goldrick-Rab et al., 2019). According to VCU’s Dean of Students Office, it is a situation in which a student lacks access to enough nutritious food in order to live a healthy, active life. Food insecurity can …