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Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index

Explore the Hunger Index and its impact on household spending and vulnerable households in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Learn how to monitor, forecast, and communicate data to make informed decisions for closing the meal gap.

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Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index

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  1. Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index Drew Starbird

  2. What is the Hunger Index? MEASURE COMPARE REVEAL UNDERSTAND

  3. How do we use the Hunger Index? Monitoring Forecasting Communicating Decision-making Partnering

  4. Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Household Spending on Food 2014 San Mateo and Santa Clara

  5. Household Spending on Food

  6. How many households?

  7. Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Vulnerable Households

  8. How many households are vulnerable?(000 households) 25% 75% 26% 74%

  9. Vulnerable Households and Meals Needed

  10. Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index Where does the food come from?

  11. Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties 2014733Million Meals226,000 households

  12. Food Assistance in SC & SM Counties 2014TTotal Food Assistance: 219 million meals

  13. Total Food Assistance Provided

  14. Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index How are we doing? The Hunger Index 2014

  15. SC & SM CountyHunger Index (million meals) 44.4% 45.9% 44.4%

  16. Closing the Meal Gap:The Hunger Index What have we learned?

  17. The number of vulnerable households has declined because of better economic conditions

  18. Food assistance declined in the two counties mostly due to government programs

  19. Increase in Food Bank and agency distributions stabilized the Hunger Index.

  20. Population, economics, and disruption drive the need for food. Are we ready for the future?

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