As part of our mission to build and implement community nutrition and food security programs that align with trauma-informed, resilience-focused principles, we offer programs and trainings to support food pantries and food banks across the United States.
- Our Nutrition Pantry Program (NPP) provides a process for implementing neighbor-centered policy, systems, and environmental changes through a trauma-informed lens at food distribution sites.
- Building Nourishing Pantries (BNP) is a training geared toward pantry staff and volunteers who would like to learn more about how to create neighbor-centered, health-promoting food distributions.
Our Work: Feeding America Learning Collaborative for Community Impact
Leah’s Pantry facilitated two, three-month learning collaboratives each with 10 Feeding America member food banks from across the United States. Each team developed a final project focusing on either internal trauma-informed capacity building or trauma-informed community engagement.
This learning collaborative was a model of thought partnership, with our team sharing the basics of trauma-informed care applied to program design and implementation, organizational development, historical and community trauma, and individual staff development through self-paced work and live virtual sessions. Participating teams contribute their deep community understanding for a nuanced and impactful approach.
Facing Hunger Foodbank, serving counties in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio, explored the impact of cultural and historical trauma on food accessibility in southern West Virginia. Their final project involved establishing a food pantry specializing in culturally relevant foods, incorporating trauma-informed practices to address community-specific needs.
Programs
Nutrition Pantry Program Sites Across the U.S.
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