HEALTH IS NUTRITION

Wealth Is Nutrition (W.I.N.)

Wealth Is Nutrition (WIN) aims to provide nutritional meals to any exiled person who are selected into its program. With over 10,000,000 exiled persons released back into society every year, many of these person suffer from high rates of preventable risk behaviors including cigarette smoking, higher rates of chronic diseases including obesity, and other health conditions such as high blood pressure. The availability of healthy, affordable foods contributes to a person's diet and risk of related chronic diseases.

Within WIN, our work is aligned with five social determinants of health: safe environment, community linkages, food and nutrition security, social connectedness, and tobacco-free policies. Our purpose is to align our community and individuals with the resources to help reach their full health and fitness potential and serve as the framework for Lenapehoking's vision. This program was launched in 2023, with hopes to create a virtuous cycle, in which these exiled individuals drive demand, hence increases supply, that ultimately leads to everyone eating leafier and living healthier.

Science In The Soil

Science In The Soil (S.I.T.S.)

Science in the Soil provides an opportunity for the students of the City of Newark to transition from a predominantly urban society to an increasingly more agrarian one. Our youth have become detached from the fundamental understanding of agriculture. Nonetheless, we benefit from the innovations and efficiencies of our food supply on a daily basis.

Science in the Soil (SITS) Program promotes agricultural literacy amongst the students of the City of Newark. SITS provides resources that incorporate other subjects, such as mathematics, history, science, civics, and chemistry, into learning experiences to academic standards. Agricultural literacy is fundamental to the development of the next generation of scientists, teachers, and policymakers to ensure a sufficient food supply for the City of Newark's inhabitants.

STUDY A TRADE

Study A Trade (S.A.T.)

Study A Trade program (SAT) is a call to action plan that prepares exiled persons to be reinstitute back in the workforce. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 60% of the exiled individuals are jobless and cannot find work due to not having a qualified skill (trade). Formerly exiled individuals tend to experience joblessness and poverty that started long before they were ever exiled. Upon reentry into society, the pressure is on to get a job: exiled persons often must maintain employment or face being banished from society, while struggling to access social services, and trying to make ends meet in a job market more hostile to them than ever before. This combination of pressures amounts to a perpetual punishment.

Within SAT, we provide an exiled person work experience to make the employment process easier. SAT's mission is to promote skill training and adequate trade education through workshops to exiled individuals who are in preparation for successful reentry into the workforce. Our vision is to continue to contribute an emerging competitive personnel to effect positive economic change in order to provide financial and social opportunities for our community and our posterities.

EXILED TO CIVILIZED

Exiled To Civilized (E.T.C.)

Exiled to Civilized Program (ETC) directives are aligned with knowledge of government. Exiled persons are taught the many structures of government and the procedures within those structures. According to 2021 Annenburg Civics knowledge survey, only 56% of the people in society can name all three branches of government. Needless to say, our basic freedoms and liberties depends on our comprehension of the rule of law. Many exiled persons have been banned from society because their infractions and ignorance of the U.S. codes and statutes. Bridging the gap between individual policy preference and the government that enacts policy is a critical first step towards quality civic engagement, and the first step towards that is to recognize what civic engagement is - participating as a member of a collective.

Within ETC, we erudite the exiled and land community members about how policy impacts them, while also learning from those communities to ground that research in reality. The program offers civic awareness graduate certificates in community development, public administration, and the governments that represent them. Graduates reach an in-depth level of understanding of Moroccan and United States policymaking, preparing them to relate each individual policy action to real-life consequences. They learn in an environment of respect for themselves and their communities.