Effective information disseminationof organizations that was createdChildren’s place
SGHN015 Kunori Gakuen High School【Current Situation】
In Japan,One in seven children lives
in relative poverty.
※relative poverty･･･poor situation comparedto the standards ofcountry or region.

【In the Yonezawa city】●Survey about poor family

Target:household that include 5th grader and8th grader
Households that were able to collect→ 13.7% is relative poverty

【poverty’s bad influences】
・lack of academic ability
・not room in the heart・decline of self-esteem andhave psychological anxiety→ one’s cause of decrease motivation to study.
Also they will hate to communicate with people.

Childhood is….

a period of time that nurture sociality andhumanity through social experiences.

Children who lives in poverty are….

can’t get enough opportunity to experience
because of lack of economic resources.
→they make a habit of give up.

Lack of economic resources =lack of motivation↓They need『construction relationship with reliable person』『discover whereabouts that can feel relief』

【The activities to provide a whereabout】●Children Cafeteria
content : provision of food and whereabout
target : children who lives in poverty,
children who require the whereabouts
and parents
frequency of hold : once or twice in a month【situation of Children Cafeteria】

Agricultural experience

Cooking time【role of the Children Cafeteria】
・place that children can get social experience・place that children acquire sociality( They can communicate with university students
who are neither parents nor teachers)・place that parents’ exchange【problems of the Children Cafeteria】①Children don’t gather and don’t come repeatedly
Information dissemination of Children Cafeteria
In Yonezawa city
・distribution of fliers at schools andcommunity centers・publish on the FacebookThese information dissemination don’t attract
participants
possible reasons・few people see it in paper medium
・even they are aware of the Children Cafeteria,
they don’t think “let’s go”

【problems of the Children Cafeteria】②parents and children hesitate about
going to the Children Cafeteria+ don’t feel necessity→ the reason is“whether we can get used to the Children Cafeteria”

【survey about life of Yonezawa city children(yonezawa city office 2021)】●intension to participate in Children Cafeteriapare n ts wan t to partic ipate
wholeABdon `t

19%
22%
19%

37%
27%
39%

c h ildre n wan t to partic ipate
whole30%
A
33%
B30%

don `t38%
41%
37%

Both of parents and children`smotivation of participate
is low.

●reasons as not wanting to participate
Most of people said…..
“don’t feel necessity” and“if we participate,we could become target
of prejudice”

Also ordinary households have image thatChildren Cafeteria =place where children who lives in poverty

It is necessary to change Children Cafeteria’s image

target is children and parents
who lives in poverty→ target is every households

【purpose of research】
Effective information dissemination of theChildren Cafeteria→get more children and parents to finda safe place【method of research】① transmitting information by SNS
Target : people who don’t know
the Children Cafeteria
Way : announcement of the date and details

【method of research】②eliminate the image ofChildren Cafeteria=place where poor children go
Target : people who have resistance forChildren Cafeteria

【concrete plan】●Children Cafeteria’s events
Reason : to ged rid of resistance
Method : serving food in the square,don`t limit target

【reference】
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事例集-地域との連携で食育の環が広がっています- pp15
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・米沢市役所(2021年)：米沢市子どもの生活に関するアンケート調査