Building Nourishing Pantries – Winter 25

Training Objectives: In this training, participants will:

• Develop an understanding of how positive and adverse experiences (including trauma and toxic stress) affect individual and community relationships to food and dietary health.
• Learn the basic process and principles of a trauma-informed approach and how to apply it to pantry work
• Learn actionable steps that you can take to create client and community-centered food distributions
• Collaboratively explore what role food pantries have in supporting community food security.

Audience: Food bank and pantry staff and volunteers, University Extension professionals, NPP implementers, and others that work in food distributions or food security.

Prerequisite: None

Training Delivery and Dates:  This program includes self-paced content (videos, reflection activities, and readings) and live, instructor-led sessions. Registered participants will gain access to our online training system (TalentLMS) in Winter TBD and will need to complete approximately 1 hour of self-paced work prior to the first live session.

• Registration Closes: December 3, 2025
• Self-Paced Course Opens: Mid November
• Live Zoom Sessions: December 4 & 11, 2025

*If you are purchasing this training for someone else, please note their name and email in the “Order note” box at checkout.

Note for CalFresh Healthy Living Participants:  Please visit the new CFHL Statewide Training platform to register for this training.  Email CFHLStatewideTraining@leahspantry.org if you need assistance.

As part of the CalFresh Healthy Living partnership, you may refer your affiliated pantries to receive a complimentary registration for our Building Nourishing Pantries course. Please use this form to make your referrals. Your referred pantries will receive a coupon code via email that will allow them to register for the course for free.