WebIXI, an HCAA Community Partner, has helped us launch our first Virtual Food Drive! What is a Virtual Food Drive? Like a traditional food drive, virtual food drives help bring food to hungry children and families in your community. But instead of buying and donating a canned item, you can simply purchase a “virtual can” […]
The Food Advocacy team has been busy! On Tuesday, we spent time with families at Halls Cross Roads Elementary School sharing how to shop for and prepare healthy food on a budget using MyPlate as our guide. 11 adult caregivers and 17 children participated and made breakfast banana splits! […]
HCAA took 10 middle schoolers, from the Delish Cooking Club at HdG Middle School, on a field trip to put to use the tools they learned completing our 6-week food advocacy programs.Our first stop was Pizza Hut where the students were able to take a tour of the restaurant, learn about the restaurant operations/possible jobs, and […]
By Natalie Shaw, Director of Compliance, and Courtney Tramontana, Food Advocacy Coordinator In November, a Girl Scout Troop visited the Pantry to help sort canned goods coming from the annual food drive held in local public schools. The girls weighed, sorted and inventoried non-perishable items from Ring Factory Elementary. Their scout leader commented after the […]
It was Sunday past and Patricia McVerry, a West L.A. resident and self-described newspaper addict, was reading the L.A. Times when she came upon the story of St. Vincent Medical Center’s impending closure after roughly 150 years in business. “I said to my husband, ‘How come they can’t think about using this for some of our homeless […]
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Duane Nason thinks he has a solution for California’s rising homelessness crisis. The software developer and web engineer envisions a 300-acre property—similar in size to an amusement park, he says—with high-rise apartment towers, on-site medical services, and access to job training. Nason’s plan would create what’s essentially an entirely new city with as many people […]
On Thursday, Maryland Matters will launch a ground-breaking, multi-part series on childhood hunger in Maryland. The series, “Empty Plates at Maryland’s Table,” will take a look at an array of institutional impediments to ensuring Maryland children have adequate access to food: from low wages, to archaic rules on who qualifies for food stamps, to limitations on who […]
Rowland Hall Senior Ben Amiel wants to be a lawyer, and he’s on the right track being on his school’s debate team. That takes a lot of time, but he still finds time to volunteer at the food pantry at Jewish Family Service, something he’s done since the eighth grade. “Around eighth grade I got […]
Hunger once seemed like a simple problem. Around the globe, often in low-income countries, many people didn’t get enough calories. But increasingly, hunger exists side-by-side with obesity. Within the same community, some people are overweight while others don’t have enough to eat. And the tricky part: You can’t “fix” hunger by just feeding people empty […]
CCM’s Specialty Court Case Manager Helps Customers Succeed By Brit Ayers, Director of Community Case Management As the Director of Community Case Management, I would like to take a few minutes to highlight the Specialty Court Case Manager, Alicia Hamilton. Alicia has been case managing clients in the Mental Health Diversion program for two years. […]
