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The Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center supports the youth community in Duplin County with nutrition programs.

Warsaw is a small, tight-knit community in eastern North Carolina that has faced decades of environmental and economic racism but continues to find ways to grow, develop, and rebuild.

One Warsaw native who exemplifies this effort to invest in the well-being of the region is Earlean Rivers, the founder and program director of the Diversity Nurtures Achievements Community Youth Center (DNA). For nearly a decade, DNA has served as a center for education, community building, and sustainable agriculture through learning programs, an expansive community garden, and a Community Circles program for community adults to discuss structural issues affecting Warsaw residents.

For several years, DNA has been a community partner to the Food Fitness and Opportunity Research Collaborative (FFORC) team at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, where they worked together to realize Rivers’ vision of expanding DNA’s reach. FFORC is a public health research group led by Molly De Marco, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition at UNC’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

According to Rivers, this FFORC partnership has allowed her to connect and collaborate with like-minded community leaders and FFORC partners. More specifically, it makes her feel like she “is not alone and that other communities are in her situation.” She also sees the partnership as a potential opportunity to “connect with other FFORC community partners to apply for larger grants and make their voices heard.”

Pumpkins in a wheelbarrow in front of the DNA Community Youth Center.

The community center offers programs throughout the day beginning with DNA’s Structured Learning Program for students who have been expelled, expelled, or suspended from school in Duplin County. Later in the day, 35-50 children attend the afternoon program. According to Rivers, “The primary focus is on academics and providing nutritious, balanced meals, as for some children this may be the only meal they get during the day.”

After eating their meals and completing their homework, the children participate in a variety of extracurricular activities offered at the center, including time in the DNA Community’s expansive vegetable garden and outdoor cattle pen. The community garden initiative began when Rivers noticed rampant food insecurity in the Warsaw region. The garden grows fruits and vegetables, from collards to grapes. They also house chickens, goats, and a koi pond on site. Rivers believes teaching children about gardening will help combat food insecurity in the region and show children they “can survive even when times are tough.”

Fruits and vegetables are grown in the DNA youth center’s community garden, from kale to grapes.

In addition to the community garden, DNA has partnered with the UNC FFORC team to host a program called Community Circles to discuss how racism has shaped the lives of members of the Warsaw community. This discussion began with a racial differences exercise developed by Bread for the World and led by Tiki Windley, member of the FFORC team.

“The plight of African Americans is no accident,” says Windley. “Systemic racism, embedded in policies created decades ago, still impacts the economic, educational, and social lives of many African Americans.”

The simulation of the racial wealth gap has sparked conversations outside of community circles and demonstrates the appetite for knowledge that community has. Rivers recognizes the impact of systemic racism on community members and wants to raise awareness in her community.

Rivers is always on the lookout for potential partnerships and support to continue her powerful work. Her message to the public is simple: “DNA has a village mentality and therefore one person cannot do it alone.”

Their goal is to integrate DNA in Warsaw, “not only for the youth, but for the whole community”.

Contact the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health communications team at sphcomm@unc.edu.

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  • Establishment of a food policy council.
  • Increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment
  • Support local food sales throughout the community by providing incentives and encouraging the establishment of farmers’ markets.

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