Kids for the Bay

Safe Bay Food Consumption Project (SBFCP)

Project Goals:
o Teach students about the San Francisco Bay watershed and the pollutants impacting bay health and human health
o Students become environmental health educators and teach their families show to reduce intake of toxins, including mercury and PCBs, from consumption of Bay fish
o Students educate people fishing on Bay piers about pollution in the Bay and how to reduce intake of toxins from consumption of bay fish
o Teachers learn to teach the KIDS for the BAY (KftB) Safe Bay Food Consumption Curriculum and Watershed Action Program to future classes of students. The program becomes an integrated component of the grade-level school curriculum with the support of the school principal.

Outcomes:
o Selected classes to participate in the SBFCP which, based on the population screening tool, contained at least 20% of students whose families fish from the Bay/Delta
o Updated and revised the SBFCP curriculum and program materials
o Lead workshops to train KftB staff on pollution in the Bay and the potential health effects from eating Bay fish, the new Bay fish advisory information and the SBFCP curriculum
o Conducted Watershed Action Program classroom lessons at schools to provide a framework for students’ understanding of SBFCP related issues
o Assisted students to conduct angler interviews on fishing piers on field trips to the San Francisco Bay shoreline
o Lead a demonstration Safe Bay Food Consumption presentation for each class to train students for their student-led presentations to family members
o Assisted classes during the student-led Safe Bay Fish Consumption presentations to family members
o KIDS for the BAY was featured on KPFA 94.1 FM’s “Terra Verde” radio show

Kids for the Bay Link: http://www.kidsforthebay.org