Building Nourishing Pantries

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.

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

• Self-Paced Course Opens: Mid-January
• Live Zoom Sessions: January  27 & February 3, 2027
• Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST

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