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Thaoly Nguyen Nicole Wong

Thaoly Nguyen Nicole Wong. Serving 1 in 6 residents of Alameda County. . “Provides free, nutritious meals and snacks to help children in low-income areas get the nutrition they need to learn, play, and grow, throughout the summer months when they are out of school.”. Community:

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Thaoly Nguyen Nicole Wong

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  1. Thaoly Nguyen Nicole Wong

  2. Serving 1 in6 residents of Alameda County.

  3. “Provides free, nutritious meals and snacks to help children in low-income areas get the nutrition they need to learn, play, and grow, throughout the summer months when they are out of school.” • Community: • Alameda community county • Area: • From Berkeley to Fremont, Oakland to Livermore • Last summer, over 140 school and community sites throughout Alameda County  30 years and running

  4. Population: 1.5 millions • Operate in low-income areas where at least half of the children come from families with incomes at or below 185 percent of the Federal poverty level, making them eligible for free and reduced-price school meals. • Regardless of their family income • Age 18 and under

  5. FEDERAL STATE LOCAL CENTRAL SITE

  6. Interested sites must meet the following guidelines:

  7. WHY CHOSEN? Students Eligible to Receive Free or Reduced Price School Meals: 2011 • Definition: Percentage of public school students eligible to receive free or reduced price meals. A child's family income must fall below 130% of the federal poverty guidelines ($29,055 for a family of four in 2011) to qualify for free meals, or below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines ($41,348 for a family of four in 2011) to qualify for reduced-cost meals.

  8. WHY CHOSEN? • Children are the most vulnerable to hunger • 35% of emergency food recipients are children under the age of 8. • 25% of client households with children report that their children skipped meals due to lack of food that money in the previous 12months. • In 38% of client households with children, wither a parent, a child or both experience hunger. • 60% of children in shelter client households experience hunger. Poverty 165,897 people (11%) of Alameda county residents lived at or below the federal poverty threshold in 2004 Food Insecurity 340,000 Alameda County residents are vulnerable to food insecurity.

  9. The Alameda County Community Food Bank partners with the city in ways to assist with the free summer lunch program • It helps connect the city with sites that would work as lunch distribution points. • Provides the volunteers to the cities are implementing the program. • Trained the staffs • Deliver the food to the location • Provides the volunteers who operate the phones lines parents can call to learn about where their children can get free lunch. • Provides the county with outreach and promotion through the emergency helpline, banners & flyers HOW?

  10.  Last year, staff at the food bank contacted the libraries in Oakland and Alameda County to discuss the possibly of the libraries providing a space where children could have lunch. • In 2011, Food Bank + City of Oakland + OUSD embarked on unique 2-week trial pilot project to provide summer lunch in an entirely new location: 3 Oakland Public Libraries (areas with the highest need). • Food bank take on the role of recruiting and training the volunteers needed to run these sites. • Took no more than a day for 20-30 children to learn that they could show up at noon for a free lunch and free books. • Two days before the libraries are scheduled closure for the summer, they learned that they were allowed to remain open throughout the summer. • Within a day of this news, two other librarians wanted to join the program to serve as Free Summer Lunch program site at their branches due to how much the community welcomed this service. • Food Bank provides volunteers at all 4 sites for the remaining 8 weeks of summer.

  11. Evaluated • Counted the number of children that got lunch • How well the program was incorporated with the staff at the library • Food Bank comes several time to the library to check how the program is progressing • Public Health Department • Food safety standards

  12. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER? • Obtain an feedback survey from parents or children • Reach out to older kids (mostly K-5 comes to the program ) • Providing hot meals

  13. REFERENCES • http://www.kidsdata.org/data/topic/table/free-school-meals-eligible.aspx?loc=127,171,357,364,365,367,344,366,368,59,2 • http://ccrwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Oakland-ACCFB-Library-case-study.pdf • http://www.accfb.org/ • http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/DHS/o/ChildrenYouthServices/OAK022080 • Nina Lindsay (Library supervisor)

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