Montgomery County Equity Coalition

November 20, 2019

Food Insecurity Lora Davenport, The Foodbank, Inc. (co-chair) Lee Lauren Truesdale, The Foodbank, Inc. (co-chair) GOAL 1: Review & analyze Foodbank childhood hunger programs to identify ways to better serve the whole family.

• Participation in Feeding America’s Childhood Hunger Cohort

• Current childhood hunger programs: • Good-to-Go Backpack Program • Kids’ Cafes • Dayton Children’s Hospital Food Script Program

• Next steps: identifying ways to feed the whole family and expand awareness of hunger relief network GOAL 2: Identify & address hunger relief programming service gaps and areas on unmet needs.

• Identify areas of high poverty that lack a local food using PantryTrak data that The Foodbank keeps for ODJFS

• Takes transportation into account

• Mobile Farmer’s Markets help meet the needs of -bound seniors and rural communities, “meeting clients where they’re at” and increasing produce consumption

• Sponsored Mobiles are funded by an outside partner to target a specific area or community

• Needs-based Mobiles are formed through gap mapping Service Gap Map

The Foodbank, Inc. Agencies and Clients Served Selected Areas, Montgomery County, Ohio, 2014

Courtesy of Rob Bennett and Lizz Mahar GOAL 3: Expand Foodbank partner agency capacity.

• Pilot partner agency program 2019: working with 13 agencies to identify challenges and opportunities, fundraise, and increase capacity to solve food insecurity

• Each agency receives a tailored support plan

• Development of a partner agency council to represent all 100+ agencies of The Foodbank

• The Foodbank’s tiered membership program

• Next steps: seeking new and innovative ways to serve clients (e-pantry) The Foodbank Montgomery County Partner Agency List

AFL-CIO Labor Pantry First Dawn Food Pantry Mount Enon Baptist Church St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) - Gateway Abigail Journey First Heavy Metal Church of Christ (The) Mount Olive Baptist Church St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) - Supportive Housing American Fitness Health & Wellness Institute FISH - Southeast New Hope Lutheran Food Pantry Sunlight Village Inc. / West Dayton Pantry Partnership Aspire Church - Food Pantry FISH - Wayne Township Njoy! Njoy! The Community Pantry (with The Belmont United Methodist Foodbank Dayton Children's Hospital Northeast Churches Foodbank) BOGG Ministries - Montgomery Foodbank Mobile Farmers Market (The) - Northmont F.I.S.H. – Northmont Friends in Thrive Together Montgomery Service for Humanity Catholic Social Services United Community Brethren Ginghamsburg / Ft. McKinley North Riverdale Church Central Christian Church Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church Pantry Good Neighbor Northwest Dayton Agape Community Action Mission Program (C.A.M.P.) Wesley CC - Dayton Cooks! Goodwill Easter Seals Miracle Clubhouse Northwest Dayton Food Pantry (SVDP) Community Pentecostal Worship Center = Ignited Wesley CC - Mt Carmel Missions Greater Allen AME Church Ohmer Park United Methodist Church Wesley Community Center, Inc. Dakota Center Greater Galilee Baptist Church Point Fort Food Pantry (The) West Carrollton Food Pantry Daybreak Greenmont Oak Park Food Pantry Precious Life Center With Gods Grace - Montgomery Dayton VA Medical Center Harmony Creek Shepherd's Hands (Brookville) Wright State University Friendship Pantry Dominion Intercessors Ministry Harris Memorial Food Pantry Shiloh Baptist Church Xenia Nazarene - Kinsey Food Pantry Downtown Dayton Initiative Have a Gay Day Inc. Spring Valley United Methodist Church Zion Baptist Church Edgewood Baptist Church Hope (The) - Montgomery St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Zion Hill Baptist Church (Zion's ) Emmanuel Lutheran Church House of Bread St. John's UCC Food Pantry Emmanuel SVDP Conference Immaculate Conception Food Pantry St. Mary's Food Pantry (SVDP) Englewood Christian Assembly of God Linden Avenue Baptist Church St. Paul United Methodist Church Evangel Church of God Memorial UCC Food Pantry St. Peter RC Church Fairview United Methodist Miami Valley Housing Opportunities - Path St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) - Community Program Farmersville 1st Baptist St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) - DePaul Center Miamisburg Helping Hands Next Steps…Join Us!

Contact Haley Carretta Project Manager - Food Systems [email protected] 937-496-3308