STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT REPORT

FEEDING FOR A PROMISING FUTURE – NO KID HUNGRY CAMPAIGN

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Setting the Context2

In 2010, 16.9%, 630,000 of Georgia’s households were food insecure an increase from 15.6% in 2009

In 2010, 6.4%, 240,000 of Georgia’s households had very low food insecurity an increase from 5.9% in 2009

In 2009, 27.9%, 702,520 of Georgia’s children under age 18 were food insecure

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region3

America’s SecondHarvest of Coastal

Georgia, Inc.

2501 East President St.

Savannah, GA 31404

Glynn, Montgomery, Chatham, Evans, Camden, Long,

Bacon, Charlton, Candler, McIntosh, Appling, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Brantley,

Effingham, Tattnall, Pierce, Bryan, Bulloch, Toombs,

Wayne

56,530

27.6%

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region4

Atlanta Community

Food Bank 732 Joseph E. LoweryBlvd. N.W.,

Atlanta, GA 30318

DeKalb, Douglas, Floyd, Forsyth,

Fulton, Haralson, Gwinnett,Fayette, Hall, Union, Polk,

Dawson, Rockdale, Pickens,Walton, Newton, Spalding,Morgan, Lumpkin, Henry,

Heard,Paulding, Cobb, Butts, Carroll,

Coweta, Cherokee, Clayton,Bartow

395,330

26.6%

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region5

Feeding the ValleyFood Bank

5928 Coca-Cola Blvd.,Columbus, GA 31909

Talbot, Meriwether, Marion, Webster, Russell, Quitman,

Chattahoochee, Clay, Harris, Randolph, Schley, Troup, Stewart, Muscogee

29,790

28.4%

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region6

Food Bank ofNortheast Georgia

861 Newton Bridge Road,

Athens, GA 30604

Barrow, Banks, White, Towns, Stephens, Jackson, Rabun, Franklin, Hart, Madison,

Oconee, Oglethorpe, Clarke, Habersham

36,260

31.2%

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region7

Golden HarvestFood Bank

3310 Commerce Drive,

Augusta, GA 30909

Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Oconee, Pickens, Glascock, Jenkins,Johnson, Barnwell, Putnam, Screven,

Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes, Bamberg,McDuffie, Lincoln, Burke, Richmond,

Aiken, Allendale, Washington,Edgefield, Jefferson, Columbia,

Elbert, Greene, Emanuel, Hancock,McCormick

88,820

29.4%

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region8

Middle GeorgiaCommunity Food

Bank4490 Ocmulgee,East Boulevard,

Macon, GA 31217

Dooly, Treutlen, Baldwin, Wilcox,Bibb, Taylor, Twiggs, Upson,Monroe, Wilkinson, Dodge, Jones, Bleckley, Houston,

Laurens, Macon, Crawford, Jasper, Pike, Telfair, Pulaski,

Peach, Wheeler, Lamar

49,170

28.7%

No. of Food Insecure Children

Child Food Insecurity RateFood Bank Counties Served

Child Food Insecurity by Food Bank Region9

Second Harvest ofSouth Georgia,

Inc.1411 Harbin Circle,Valdosta, GA 31601

Worth, Baker, Calhoun, Seminole, Lee, Irwin,

Dougherty, Terrell, Sumter, Tift, Turner, Decatur,

Mitchell, Miller, Grady, Colquitt, Coffee, Ben Hill,

Early, Crisp, Atkinson, Echols, Lowndes, Brooks,

Ware, Cook, Thomas, Clinch, Lanier, Berrien

61,240

30.8%

Campaign Goals10

The core goals of the Feeding for a Promising Future –

No Kid Hungry Campaign to end childhood hunger are

to:Improve access to public and private programs that provide food to families and their children who need and are not receiving it

Strengthen community infrastructure and systems for getting healthy food to children

Improve families’ knowledge about available programs, healthy food choices and how to make their limited food resources go further

Campaign Year One Objectives11

The year one objectives of the Feeding for a Promising

Future – No Kid Hungry Campaign to end childhood

hunger are to:Increase number of children participating in Summer Meals Program by 3%

Serve 15,000 after school meals through the At-Risk Afterschool program, equal to one percent of snacks served in 2010

Increase the number of agencies participating in the State SNAP Outreach Partnership by 30%

Campaign Strategies: Summer Meals12

Year One Objective: Increase number of children participating in Summer Meals Program by 3%Baseline: In 2010, 108,511 or 13.6% of children in

Georgia participated in the Summer Meals Program for every 100 who ate a free or reduced-price lunch during the previous school year

Core Strategies:

Implement outreach and marketing plans to increase awareness about summer meals

Conduct targeted outreach to organizations to ensure adequate number of sites offering summer meals in high-need communities

Provide start-up grants for to expansion of Summer Meals Program

Identify gaps in service and opportunities for increasing participation

Campaign Strategies: After-School Meals13

Year One Objective: Serve 15,000 after school meals through the At-Risk Afterschool program, equal to one percent of snacks served in 2010Baseline: In 2010, 1,492,784 snacks were served

at 890 sites through the At-Risk After-School program

Core Strategies:

Implement outreach and marketing plan to increase awareness about At-Risk Afterschool Meal Programs

Conduct outreach to meal sponsors regarding opportunities serving high-need communities

Provide incentives to encourage sites providing snacks to become At-Risk Afterschool meal sites

Identify gaps in service and opportunities for increasing participation

Campaign Strategies: SNAP14

Year One Objective: Increase the number of agencies participating in the State SNAP Outreach Partnership by 30%.Baseline: In 2011, nine organizations participated

in the Georgia State SNAP Outreach Partnership.

Core Strategies:

Present information on State Outreach Partnership opportunities and resources to local non-profit agencies through regional meeting

Implement outreach and marketing campaign in partnership with the Food Stamp Work Group to increase the number of agencies promoting SNAP

Provide assistance for agencies interested in submitting a proposal to join the State Outreach Partnership

Georgia NKH Survey Results15

Type of Services Provided by SurveyRespondents

(Respondents selected all applicable options)

Georgia NKH Survey Results16

Types of Meal Services Provided by SurveyRespondents

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Age Groups of Children Served bySurvey Respondents

Georgia NKH Survey Results18

Survey respondents primarily collaborate with

non-profits, school districts and local gov’tagencies to address child hunger needs in

theircommunities

Georgia NKH Survey Results19

Type of Support Collaborative AgenciesProvide

Georgia NKH Survey Results20

The majority of survey respondents wereinterested in becoming CACFP and SFSP

sitesin the future.

Georgia NKH Survey Results21

Survey respondents rated funding as thehighest level of importance among

agency’soverall needs

Georgia NKH Survey Results22

97 (62%) agreed or strongly agreed thatIncreased funding would help increase

theirSNAP outreach while 92 (60%) agreed orstrongly agreed for more know-how.

# 1 Key Learning & Recommendation 23

Learning # 1:Despite the fact that agencies listed more food as the second highest need based on level of importance only following funding, less than 20% of survey participants reported collaboration with food banks and less than 10% of survey participants reported collaboration with food pantries.

Recommendation # 1:Creating better access and support for connecting non-participating organizations to the federal nutrition programs to create additional support for providing nutritious meals to children is a primary approach for the No Kid Hungry Campaign. Additional options also include leveraging the GFBA’s network to deepen the collaboration with food banks and food pantries to better support meal providers who wish to serve more youth, but access to food is a barrier.

# 2 Key Learning & Recommendation 24

Learning #2: The schools who apply for the 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant (21st CCLC)* are restricted from using any portion of the grant award for snacks or meals, but are required to provide snacks for after-school participants. At this time none of the 21st CCLC programs in Georgia are participating in the CACFP federal reimbursement program.

Recommendation #2:Increase participation in CACFP with an outreach campaign targeted at the Georgia Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Center Program, thereby enrolling an additional 248 program sites.

# 3 Key Learning & Recommendation 25

Learning #3: Only 14.2% of survey respondents were interested in conducting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) outreach and only 11.6% were willing to provide SNAP enrollment services. However, when asked what factors would influence an organization’s willingness to provide SNAP outreach, 60% of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that more know-how would help increase their SNAP outreach.

Recommendation #3:Enhance dissemination of information and capacity building training related to resource opportunities for nonprofits through the State SNAP Outreach Program.

Promising Approaches & Potential Strategies26

Enhance dissemination of information and capacity building training to mitigate barriers to children accessing feeding & nutrition programs.

Deepen the collaboration with community based organizations serving at-risk youth who are susceptible to being food insecure throughout the year.

Explore partnerships with local and national civic groups and service learning organizations (e.g. university & community partnerships) to enhance volunteer support of feeding and nutrition programs offered by service providers

Regularly and openly share results and progress toward campaign objectives with key stakeholders utilizing local and national data

Acknowledgements27

The below agencies contributed to the survey datacollection:

Georgia Department of Education – School Nutrition ProgramGeorgia Department of Early Care & Learning: Bright from the StartUnited Way of Metropolitan AtlantaGeorgia Department of Human Services - Division of Family and Children ServicesGovernors’ Office of Children & Family Atlanta Community Food BankFeeding the Valley Food BankGolden Harvest Food BankAmerica’s Second Harvest of Coastal GeorgiaMiddle Georgia Community Food BankFood Bank of Northeast Georgia