Reframing Conversations About Food Security
People in our communities deserve access to healthy food and nutrition education that:
- Acknowledges and recognizes the impact of traumatic experiences
- Avoids blame, shaming, or perpetuating stigma
- Promotes resilience
We are passionate about educating community leaders with the knowledge and tools to transform the lives of people in their communities with nourishing, trauma-sensitive solutions.
Our Work
Leah’s Pantry envisions communities where everyone can cultivate a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. We address nutrition security in four areas:
1. Cultivate Nourished Communities
- Offer programs where community members can build a resilient, multi-dimensional relationship with food and their bodies.
- Deliver community-centered approaches to nutrition security.
- Support connections between individual and planetary health.
2. Design and Build Innovative Programs
- Develop products and programs that support a multi-dimensional relationship with food and recognize participants’ wisdom and experience.
- Evaluate programs for transformative change.
- Thoughtfully integrate community voice into program design and evaluation.
3. Catalyze Organizational Transformation
- Deliver professional trainings that catalyze the implementation of trauma-informed nutrition security principles and programs.
- Cultivate peer-to-peer networks of program implementers.
- Align internal organization processes, policies, and procedures with trauma-informed principles.
4. Impact Food and Health Systems
- Transform the understanding of nutrition security through speaking engagements, scholarship, conferences, and collaborations.
- Promote the adoption of trauma-informed and nutrition security principles in county, state, and national policies and initiatives.
- Collaborate across settings and sectors to develop models of equity and trauma-informed care.