Most of our community pantries, soup kitchens, and backpack programs are staffed by older volunteers who are at heightened risk of COVID-19 and sometimes perform strenuous tasks without assistance. How can we cultivate a network of younger volunteers to help sustain the important work communities do and learn the benefits Read more…
Connecting the health care system with food resource providers— pantries, summer feeding programs, etc.— takes strategy, collaboration, and people power. How can providers connect patients who identify as food insecure to resources if they don’t know where they are? How can they tell them when the mobile food pantry is Read more…
As the concept of food as medicine gains popularity, Farmacy programs and mobile pantries have expanded in rural West Virginia. In this session, we’ll talk with panelists from successful programs, discuss challenges to collaboration, detail ways to build on these partnerships, and offer policy recommendations that could potentially expand these Read more…