Transcript SEFA: Southeast Food Access Working Group

SEFA:
Southeast Food Access
Working Group
Network for a Healthy California
January 23, 2008
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Food Access
Working Group
The Mayor’s Challenge:
Shape Up SF
• Launched in April 2006
• Shaping up the physical activity and
nutrition environments
• Making it easy to make the healthy
choice by focusing on:
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Policy
Data
Education/Awareness
Programs
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Food Insecurity in the
U.S.
1. 1/6 are food insecure in US
2. Low Income people and people of
color are more likely to suffer from
food insecurity (hunger and
obesity).
3. Food insecurity affects 35% of low
income households in the US
4. African American and Latino
households face food insecurity
and hunger rates three times as
high as those of white households.
(USDA)
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Food
Deserts…
The causes of food insecurity include supermarket flight
from inner cities, transportation barriers, inundating inner
cities with fast food chains and food that is high in salt,
sugar, and fat.
Food insecurity contributes to growing rates of diabetes and
obesity – health concerns that rank high in inner city
communities like Bayview.
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Bolen, E. and Hecht, K. (2003, January). Neighborhood Groceries: New Access to Healthy
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Food in Low Income Communities. California Food Policy Advocates.
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Background
• Shape Up SF Summit in April 2006 –
breakout group on food access
– Follow up: ongoing communication
• Reconvened group in January 2007
– Response to community request
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SEFA Members
Co chairs: SEHC director & WPM general manager
Community Based Partners
CCSF Partners
Department of the Environment
BVHP Farmer’s Market
Department of Public Health
BVHP Foundation
Department of Public Works
CPMC Bayview Child Health Center
Mayor’s Office of Community
Hunter’s Point Family
Development
Literacy for Environmental Justice
Mayor’s Office of Economic and
Workforce Development
Network for Elders
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Quesada Gardens Initiative
Reachout for the Rainbow AfterSchool
SF Food Bank
SF Wholesale Produce Market
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San Francisco Food Systems
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SEFA Goal
The goal of SEFA is to work collaboratively
across city and community agencies to
ensure that healthy, fresh, sustainable,
and affordable produce is accessible to all
residents of the BVHP, utilizing existing
venues and supporting transformation
and/or creation of new ones.
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SEFA Activities
• SEFA has identified several areas in
which to work.
• Looking at spectrum of issues across
the food system including:
– Nutrition education/Awareness Raising
– Working with food pantries
– Full service market(s)
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Full Service Market
• Engaged key city agencies
– MOEWD, SFRA, MOCD, DPH
• Identified need for survey to understand
desires and needs of community
– Over protest of district supervisor
• In Summer 2007, developed and
implemented survey.
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Survey Process
• Promoted as CBO/resident led
• Administered to nearly 600 residents in
BVHP and Visitacion Valley in…
• English, Spanish and Chinese
• Surveys administered online and at
– grocery stores,
– food pantries,
– community agencies,
– housing developments,
– door to door.
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Survey
Results
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Respondents care about values associated with
workers rights and organic foods.
•58% want a co-op market
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Results
•53% “most important” that foods be free of pesticides and chemicals and
be grown by local farmers who treat farm workers fairly.
Most residents buy their food outside of the
neighborhood (grocery sales leakage reached $38 million)
Lack of quality/freshness of food and safe pleasant
shopping atmosphere were cited as reasons why
residents don’t shop at existing stores.
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While 55% preferred a large grocery store, 45%
Southeast
preferred a couple of smaller stores in different
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locations.
Full Service Market
• Mayor’s Office of Economic &
Workforce Development participation in
SEFA meetings
• SEFA sounding board to MOWED
– Recommended Tesco
– Visited/contacted independent stores
– Advocated to potential stores
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Success!?!
• TESCO interest
– Company values
– Alcohol moratorium
• In December 2007, Fresh and Easy
broke ground for a full service market in
BVHP to open mid 2009
Progress: but not a
complete solution
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Future SEFA Work
• Nutrition Education/Awareness Raising
(collaborate with culinary institutes to train community cooks,
cooking demo’s, cook books etc)
• Work with existing/new grocery stores
– Share Survey findings: FoodsCo,
Supersave
– Market Watch
• Continue collaboration with SEFA
member projects
• Leadership by community
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Lessons Learned
• LISTEN to community
– Formed SEFA
– Survey
– Alcohol Moratorium
• ACT with community
– Provide TA/Leadership
• SHARE
– Work
• Survey, staffing
– Success/failures
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SEFA Survey Results
www.shapeupsf.org
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