Live
At JABA, our mission is to ensure that individuals and families live better. We believe that living as part of a community promotes healthy aging, so all JABA owned and run living options promote a sense of community. Whether you are seeking independent living or living with assistance, JABA continues to establish and preserve living communities that increase options for living better.
Enjoy
Living as an elder should be an enjoyable part of your life. Why not enjoy yourself as part of a community that learns, plays and works together? At JABA, we have designed our Community Centers and our Adult Care Centers to promote fun and fellowship.
Support
JABA is all about lending support to seniors in need of assistance. Whether that includes basic information, case management, insurance counseling, home delivered meals — or any of the many other available services — we want you to think of JABA as a source of support for you or your loved ones. Most of our support is offered as a gift to those who cannot pay. See individual programs for more details.
Give
JABA is able to do all that it does because of generous volunteers and donors. We value contributions of time as well as dollars and promise to put your talents and your donations to very good use.
In the past five years, government funding has diminished. Luckily, individual and corporate contributions have begun to rise. Your assistance is greatly appreciated and needed.
Learn
What’s good for us as we age is good for our entire community — from planning for neighborhood growth, to promoting local foods and collaborating for the best use of resources. This is the philosophy behind JABA’s mission, “to promote, establish and preserve sustainable communities for healthy aging that benefit individuals and families of all ages.”
THE BIG KITCHEN GUIDE TO GOING LOCAL
July 11, 2010
Press Contact:
Judy Berger, Community Nutrition Manager
(434) 817-5234
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE BIG KITCHEN GUIDE TO GOING LOCAL
New DVD and book provide step-by-step how-to for adding local food to institutional fare.
Charlottesville, VA—- Long the subject of jokes about bland taste and gray appearance, the millions of institutional meals served daily in schools, nursing homes, corporate cafeterias and other related facilities may soon get an image overhaul. A just published DVD and guidebook are now available to help institutional chefs incorporate locally grown food into their menus and give farmers insight into selling their local produce to food service programs.
Produced by JABA and Melli Productions, producer of Meet the Farmer TV, the DVD— Meal Programs: Feeding a Crowd with Local Foods—gives a step-by-step, hands-on explanation of how to incorporate local foods into institutional menus. The DVD and guidebook cover a realistic approach for incorporating local foods, while staying within commercial kitchen budgets. The 15 minute program takes viewers from connecting with farmers, preparation time, space and storage needs to accounting considerations, harvest schedules and weight-to-serving conversion tables.
Designed to work with the DVD the guidebook – Moving Into Local Foods – written by JABA’s CEO Gordon Walker and former JABA staff member Kay Jenkins, provides an overview of how to get a local food system started, including building partnerships, identifying strengths and weaknesses of a current food system and sustaining program momentum.
JABA’s Nutrition Manager Judy Berger, who wrote and produced the DVD, drew on her own experience taking the organization’s successful local food initiative from a fledgling idea to national model. “In 2007, we set a goal of locally sourcing 20-to-25 percent of the produce we use in our seniors’ meals. We achieved our goal, but there was a significant learning curve. We wanted to make the lessons we learned the hard way available to other institutions.”
View a sample of the DVD Meal Programs: Feeding a Crowd with Local Foods below:
Copies of the DVD and the guide are available directly from JABA.
- Meal Programs: Feeding a Crowd with Local Foods DVD $25.00
- Moving Into Local Foods guidebook $15.00
To order, contact Judy Berger at jberger@jabacares.org.
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About JABA
JABA (the Jefferson Area Board for Aging) serves the city of Charlottesville, and the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson. JABA cares about all aspects of senior and intergenerational welfare. The nonprofit organization works to promote, establish and preserve sustainable communities for healthy aging that benefit individuals and families of all ages.
For information on JABA and answers to other aging related questions, contact JABA at (434) 817-5222 or visit the Web site www.jabacares.org. You can also follow JABA on Twitter as “JABAcares”
and on Facebook at JABA Charlottesville.
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- 674 Hillsdale Drive, Suite 9
- Charlottesville, VA 22901
- Email:
- jabacares@gmail.com
- Phone:
- (434) 817-5222
- Fax:
- (434) 817-5230
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