What Can a Hunger Report Do for You?

Dorothy Smith, RDUC Cooperative ExtensionAmador, Calaveras & Tuolumne Counties

Hunger Report Provides: Increase community awareness

Solid data

Anecdotal information

Publishable information

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

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.

Process Obtain Community “Buy In”

Identify and secure distribution site

Recruit volunteers

Provide service

Conducted focus groups in 5 remote communities

Recruited 41 volunteers!

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

Continued Successes Summary Data

– 2628 Families– 7900 Meals– 2400 Nutrition

Education Contacts

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.

Nutrition Education and Referrals

MICH Project Prop 10 funded 1 year grant

WIC and Food Bank Collaborative

Voucher for fruits and vegetables provided to WIC participants each month

MICH Project

$50,000 Grant

$32,000 for fresh produce

Created economic benefit for community

Hunger Reports Can Be a Powerful Tool.

The Possibilities Are Numerous.