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Fotonovelas

The Fast Food High School Series

 Fast Food High School I is a fotonovela about themes that are important to all of us - food, personal choice, and being cool. It addresses certain critical issues deriving from the fast food environment and their impacts on the health of families in local communities.

Fast Food High School II is another fotonovela about similar themes and looks at the role played by body image.  It addresses critical issues deriving from the fast food and media environment and their impacts on adolescent health in local communities.

Fast Food High School es una fotonovela sobre temas importantes para todos – la comida, elecciones personales, y como “andar en la onda”. Trata algunas cuestiones críticas resultando del medio ambiente de comidas rápidas, y sus impactos en la salud de familias en comunidades locales.

     La fotonovela ha sido actuada y redactada por los alumnos de Soledad High School en el Condado de Monterey. El proyecto fué financiado por “California Food, Fiber and Future's Food, Diet and Health Action Project”. UCCE da permiso para maestros de copiar y usar esta novela para el uso educacional.

These fotonovelas  were acted and scripted by students at Soledad High School, in Monterey County. The project was funded by California Food, Fiber and Future's Food, Diet and Health Action Project. UCCE grants permission for teachers and health educators to download and copy this novela for educational use.

Fast Food High School at Alisal, Volume II ~ "Get the Lead Out!" is a fotonovela funded by the Public Health Trust and developed by Alisal High School Human Services Academy students with Cooperative Extension staff, in answer to a need for community health information on lead contamination in a familiar voice. 

 

Information on the backgroung of the problem of lead in Monterey county ~ and suggestions for collaborative community solutions ~ may be found here:

 

Lessons from Monterey County
 
When youth advocate address a topic, the community often listens (in 2006, Alisal students gained a fresh salad bar as a result of their fotonovela on school food - see link above). Students are able to speak to issues in a frank voice, and discuss key concerns that might not otherwise make to the public discourse. "Get the Lead Out!" turns a spotlight on cultural questions, a certain level of boredom with the topic of lead, and the amazing prevalence of the problem (Readers may become interested when they realized that the $85 handbag purchased at a major department store is as equally contaminated and dangerous as the cheap toy from the Dollar store)

 

 The fotonovelas may be found here:

Food Safety

An important lesson presented and acted by staff at UC Cooperative Extension, Monterey County and the Office of the Agricultural Commissioner.

Preventing Chronic Illness

This fotonovela explores some of the personal and cultural issues that are part of developing diabetes.