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Empowering Communities: The Impact of a Hunger Report

Learn how Calaveras County used hunger report data to increase community awareness, secure funding, and provide food and education to targeted communities through successful projects. Discover how hunger reports can be a powerful tool for positive change.

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Empowering Communities: The Impact of a Hunger Report

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  1. What Can a Hunger Report Do for You? Dorothy Smith, RD UC Cooperative Extension Amador, Calaveras & Tuolumne Counties

  2. Hunger Report Provides: • Increase community awareness • Solid data • Anecdotal information • Publishable information

  3. How Calaveras County Used the Report: • Presented to the Board of Supervisors • Solicited Grant funding: • Emergency Mobile Food Pantry Project • MICH Project • Mothers Infants and Child Harvest

  4. Emergency Mobile Food Pantry • Provide food to hard to reach targeted communities. • Provide nutrition education to targeted communities. • Provide referral and resource information to targeted communities.

  5. Process • Obtain Community “Buy In” • Identify and secure distribution site • Recruit volunteers • Provide service

  6. Conducted focus groups in 5 remote communities Recruited 41 volunteers!

  7. Successes • Secured 5 sites at no cost • Obtained funding for van • Provides service to approximately 100 families per month • Provide food for over 2000 meals per month

  8. Continued Successes • Summary Data • 2628 Families • 7900 Meals • 2400 Nutrition Education Contacts

  9. Successes Continued • 45% of families served were new to food bank services. • Reduction of 25% has occurred at main food bank in San Andreas. • Education and referral information provided monthly.

  10. Nutrition Education and Referrals

  11. MICH Project • Prop 10 funded 1 year grant • WIC and Food Bank Collaborative • Voucher for fruits and vegetables provided to WIC participants each month

  12. MICH Project • $50,000 Grant • $32,000 for fresh produce • Created economic benefit for community

  13. Hunger Reports Can Be a Powerful Tool. The Possibilities Are Numerous.

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