Food Access Barriers and Supports for Youth in Thunder Bay, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The issue of youth food insecurity is examined in this thesis, in the context of a diverse urban centre which has a growing youth population and a high Indigenous presence. Literature review has identified gaps in academic literature examining location-based efforts to target food insecurity among youth in Canada, especially gaps in studies that focus on the needs of youth based on their experiences, and simultaneously investigate efforts made by support organizations to meet those needs. Approaches to supporting Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in their food security needs, including cultural food security, is examined in this research undertaken in Thunder Bay, ON. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 23 youth participants and 14 staff participants who are involved with various food support organizations. Youth participants were asked to discuss their household food situations, food preferences, barriers they face, and the support they need to have sustainable eating habits. Staff participants were asked to discuss the food security barriers they have identified and addressed within the community, and which barriers they perceived to be beyond their scope to support. A phenomenological analysis technique was used to interpret participants’ experiences. A combination of literature search, and comparison of input from both youth and staff participants, led to a picture of food security in Thunder Bay youth. Based on these findings, three layers of barriers were identified, and a set of recommendations were generated aimed at improving food security. These recommendations centred around greater education and awareness, improved design of secondary support programs, and greater inclusion of Indigenous culture. It is hoped that this thesis will fill a gap that exists in academic literature examining food security initiatives aimed at youth at the community level, with direct insight from youth and staff who are involved with food support.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".