Transcript A Bicycle-Friendly Lancaster County

Building Hunger-Free Communities
Through Partnerships
Hunger-Free Lancaster County
Michael McKenna, MS
Beth K. Schwartz, MSN RN
Pastor Matthew Lenahan
April 26, 2015
Need
Lack of access to enough food for an active healthy
lifestyle

Lancaster County
Food Insecurity Rate:
11%

Childhood Insecurity
Rate: 18%

More than 59,000
people in our
community

A meal gap of 7.2
Million meals per year
 What does this look
like in your
agencies?
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Need (continued…)
 SNAP Participants (Lancaster County) 56,284
 1 out of 9 individuals receive SNAP benefits
 Lancaster County ranked 10th in state for growth in SNAP
(State of Hunger Report 2013)
 Free and Reduced Lunch Program (Lancaster County) 20,238
 WIC participants (Lancaster County July 2014) 9,600
 Families living below poverty level ($23,000 for family of 4) 10.1%
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Hunger in America Report: Tradeoffs
Choose between paying for food and paying for other
expenses (ever in the past 12 months)
Medical
Care
Utilities
62.2%
48.6%
Housing
TRANSPORTATION
45.1%
41.3%
Education
37.0%
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Hunger in America Report: Top Products Desired,
by Clients, but not Receiving at Program
Dairy
Products (i.e.
cheese, milk,
yogurt)
Beverages
such as water
or juice
49.8%
Grains
such as
bread and
pasta
25.0%
Fresh fruits
and
vegetables
Protein
items such
as meat
61.7%
Other
Food Items
Items
such as
diapers or
shampoo
8.2%
30.9%
20.0%
7.7%
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WHY COLLABORATION?
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Who are you collaborating with?
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COLLABORATION
Partnership
Investment
Capacity
Building
Activities
Shared
Mission and
Vision
Building
hunger free
communities
Who are you collaborating with?
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EVALUATION
Collect
Data
Funding
Resources
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Our Mission
• Building a food secure Lancaster County with
a nutritious, accessible and sustainable food
system.
Our Goal
• Ensure access to three healthy meals a day
for every Lancastrian by March 2018 and the
development of an ongoing plan to address
hunger in the county.
How to close the meal gap?
SERVICE
Baseline Data
1-Year Objective
In FFY14, Central PA
Food Bank, CAP, and
partners distributed
4,218,608 lbs of food,
the equivalent of
3,551,506 meals
2-Year Objective
3-Year Objective
Strategy
Indicator
Meal Gap
Contribution
400,000 additional 760,000 additional 1,000,000
meals
meals
additional meals
Identify specific quantity of
meals required from various
players supplemental food
community; Increase hours at
select sites; Further align
intake and data collection
procedures; Expand sourcing
network (e.g. gleaning);
Improve variety of healthy
foods served
Approximately 4.55
million meals
distributed per year
(equivalent to 5.46
million pounds)
1,000,000 meals
Increase in
contacts by 10%;
Increase in school
and community
gardens by 10%
1.
Every district has at
least one building
with school garden;
Nutrition Ed
contacts increased
by 30%
Indirect
contribution via
better use of food
dollars and pounds
of food from
gardens
(Data needed: community meal
share not covered by CPFB/CAP)
Approximately 11,200
individuals/contacts
across TRACKS, EFNEP,
WIC, CAP/NEP, Power
Packs & HBP; 35 school
gardens
Increase in
contacts by 20%;
Increase in school
and community
gardens by 25%
Increase in
contacts by 30%;
Increase in school
and community
gardens by 50%
2.
3.
Track NE activities on a
quarterly basis
Greater partnership
across programs
Invest in research to
assess impact of
different tactics
SCHOOL
Lever
Baseline Data
1-Year Objective
2-Year Objective
3-Year Objective
School
Breakfast
According to Hunger Action
Center, during the 20112012 school year, only 42.5
Lancaster School District
children received a free or
reduced-price breakfast for
every 100 who received a
free or reduced-price lunch.
In Columbia Borough, only
33.73 received a free or
reduced-price breakfast for
every 100 F/R NSLP
participant.
50 students will eat
breakfast out of
every 100 students
who eat free or
reduced-price school
lunch
60 students will eat
breakfast out of
every 100 students
who eat free or
reduced-price school
lunch
70 students will eat 1.
breakfast out of
every 100 students
who eat free or
2.
reduced-price school
lunch
In 2014, 4,275 meals and
25,759 snacks were served.
Averaged daily
participation was 140 kids
for supper; 3,196 for
snacks. There were 7 sites
(Source: PDE)
7,125 meals and
34,345 snacks
served. ADP of 200
for supper.
After-school
and outside
school snacks
and meals
Strategy
3.
4.
9,975 meals and
42,931 snacks
served. ADP of 300
for supper.
12,825 meals and
1.
51,518 snacks served
ADP of 420 for
2.
supper.
3.
4.
Summer Meals
According to FRAC's
Approximately
statewide data, during July 110,000 meals and
2013, 18.7 students
snacks served
participated in the summer
meals program for every
100 who received a free or
reduced-price school lunch.
In FFY14, 48 sites served
approximately 90,000
meals and snacks.
Approximately
130,000 meals and
snacks served
150,000 meals and
snacks served. In July
of 2017, 25 children
in Lancaster County
will participate in the
summer meals
program for every
100 who receive a
free or reduced-price
lunch.
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2.
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4.
3-Year Indicator
3-Year Meal Gap
Contribution
Work with school leaders
to ID high need, low
participation schools.
Support alternative
delivery models, i.e.
breakfast as part of the
school day
Implement county-wide or
promote statewide School
Breakfast Challenge
Farm to School initiatives
70 students will eat
breakfast out of every
100 students who eat
free or reduced-price
school breakfast
Approximately
500,000 across the
county. LSD - Based
on average daily
participation (ADP) of
1,839 addtl and 180
school days = 331,020
meals
CBSD – Based on ADP
of 278 * 180 school
days = 50,040. County
wide from challenge =
118,940
Increase the number of
sponsors and sites.
Boost sites’ days of service
and marketing capacity.
Support sites in
conversion from snack to
full meal.
Explore creative sourcing
options.
420 children eat an
after-school meal on
any given day (ADP)
across 14 sites.
8,550 additional
meals and 25,759
additional snacks per
year
Recruit and support new
sites and sponsors.
Outreach to families with
children (e.g. post card
home at end of school
year)
Ensure high quality of
meals and programming
at sites
Deploy texting service and
mapping features
150,000 meals and
60,000 additional
snacks served each
meals and snacks per
summer; double the
summer
number of sites and/or
increased capacity of
sites
SNAP
Lever
Baseline Data
SNAP
WIC
Total Meals Contributed
1-Year Objective
2-Year Objective
3-Year Strategy
Objectiv
e
Indicator
Meal Gap
Contribution
As of Sept 2014, only 55.23% of eligible
51.9% of low-income low-income
people in SNAP. There individuals will
were over 50,739
participate in SNAP
eligible individuals
who were not
enrolled.
58.56% of eligible
low-income
individuals will
participate in
SNAP
61.9%
of
eligible
lowincome
individu
als will
particip
ate in
SNAP
(still
below
state
average
of
66.1%)
61.9% of eligible
low-income
individuals receive
SNAP benefits
Based on ACS 2012
figures, 10,560
additional people
over 9/14.
Assuming average
benefit of $119.41
per person;
certification period
of 1 year; and retail
meal cost of $2.66,
that’s 5,668,585
meals.
In FFY14, Lancaster
WIC served
approximately 91.4%
of assigned
participation target
Lancaster WIC
serves 96% of
assigned
participation
target
Lancast 1.
er WIC 2.
serves
98% of 3.
assigned
particip 4.
ation
target
Lancaster WIC
serves 93% of
assigned
participation target
1. Identify best practices of
higher-performing counties
(Dauphin, York) 2. Direct
outreach to community
members at pantries and
community agencies, including
training a volunteer corps to
expand reach
3. Identify underserved groups
(Seniors, AmCit children, etc.)
4. Support governor-elect's
proposal to eliminate the asset
test; 5. Develop a matching
fund to grow purchasing power
of SNAP benefits at Farmers
Markets
6. Explore ability to cross-match
participants across WIC, school
meals, MA, etc.
7. Increase # of retailers for EBT
Ongoing outreach
98% of assigned
Campaign for retention to caseload, equivalent
age 5
to 9444,
Reduction in no show
approximately 578
rate.
additional
Expanded footprint via
participants
Mobile Clinic
164,247 meals
(using SNAP
calculator retail cost
figure & $62.99
average monthly
benefit)
7,237,135
Core Activities across priority levers
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Cross-matching and cross-promotion across services and programs
Advocacy
o Priority areas could include
 Education to relevant stakeholders about school breakfast delivery
models
 Supporting changes to SNAP access (e.g. elimination of the asset test
recently announced under new Governor)
 Supporting changes in CNR authorization bill that expand access to
school meals and WIC
Expansion of coalition
o HFLC Board members work to secure the support of the Chamber, select
elected officials, CAO, Lancaster County Universities, congregations and
additional organizations from beyond Lancaster City and Columbia
Borough.
o HFLC Board expects minimum standards of engagement
SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS
Deeply committed partners
Meaningful progress to date
Diversified strategy based on proven campaigns
elsewhere
Strong local economy with top performing ag
sector
Issue resonates with public and potential funders
Sizeable faith community
Leverages federal dollars for significant
efficiencies
OPPORTUNITIES
Systems level change via policy and processes
Positive feedback loop between results and
investment
Community-wide buy in
Creative approaches (farm to school, food waste
reductions)
Local sourcing system
WEAKNESSES
Key players not yet at the table
Investment of time, resources, etc. must be
maintained over long haul
No current funding
Data can be hard to access
THREATS
Macroeconomic changes (e.g. recession
nationally or loss of major employer locally)
impacting financial stability
Block grant of the SNAP program or reduction in
funding for nutrition programs
High cost and low availability of housing stock
Success Stories: Organizational
• Organized membership and structure
• Defined mission and goals
• Created logic model and first year deliverables
• Garnered significant media coverage on official launch event
• Completed focus groups with local providers and users
• Developed a map of where all Food Pantry providers are located
• Cross promotion of other member agency organizations and goals
• Recruited new members that boost our collective capacity
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Success Stories: Programmatic
• Lancaster County Council of Churches Food Hub
• Central Market creation of bilingual materials, identified stands to obtain stand
holders that accepted EBT
• Nutrition training of supplemental food providers
• On-site Farmer’s Market at largest WIC clinic
• Significant growth in produce distribution
• Food Assessment with The Food Trust
• Media coverage of WIC 40th anniversary
• Acquisition of a mobile clinic to expand WIC services
• Transition of SNAP hotline to Central PA Food Bank
• Developed a resource for all Nutrition Education taking place in the County
• Coordinated activities around the county for Food Day
• Offered training on Summer Food Service Program
What are your success stories?
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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
Distribution of Highest Nutrition Products (in pounds)
4,000,000
Produce
Meats/Fish/Poultry
3,500,000
Mixed Dry - SFPP Grant Eligible
CSFP + ElderShare
3,000,000
Vegetables
Dairy
2,500,000
Juices
Fruits
2,000,000
Cereal
Completed Meals / Entrees
1,500,000
Soups
Grains & Rice
1,000,000
USDA - Regular
Protein Non-meat
All Other Product
500,000
0
FY 2010
FY 2011
FY 2012
FY 2013
FY 2014
Resources
Hunger Free Lancaster County
Community Action Program for Lancaster County
FRAC
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank
Feeding America
No Kid Hungry
USDA
Lighten Up Lancaster
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QUESTIONS??
Michael McKenna
COO, Community Action
Program of Lancaster County
717-299-7388 ext. 3031
[email protected]
Rev. Matt Lenahan
Pastor, Zion Lutheran Church
(717)859-2100
[email protected]
Beth Koser Schwartz, MSN RN
Facilitator, Lighten Up Lancaster
Lancaster General Health
717-544-3865
[email protected]
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