
Building Nourishing Pantries
$35.00
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 early February and will need to complete approximately 2 hours of self-paced work prior to the first live session.
- Registration Closes: February 14, 2024
- Self-Paced Course Opens: early February
- Live Zoom Sessions: 2/15, 2/22; Times: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST
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.