San Francisco Human Services Agency

San Francisco’s SNAP Ed. Innovations Grant

Teaching nutrition to CalFresh customers, and to CBO staff

&Creating EatFresh.org

Tiana.Wertheim@sfgov.org

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Teaching Nutrition, Component 1 of the grant:

Leah’s Pantry and the San Francisco Food Bank are collaboratively teaching nutrition to CalFresh clients and CBOs (Direct and Indirect)

They offer:

• 45 minute demos for large groups- (141) ---CF lobby

• 6 week classes (Food Smart Workshops) (93)

• Various “train the trainer” options, etc (Food Smarts Training Program)

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Objectives of Leah’s Pantry and the SF Food Bank:

Engage residents in addition to CBO staff

- as class participants and as trainers

Equip CBOs to teach their own classes, rather than relying on the help of an outside agency

Continue to support the work of 300+ partners (homeless shelters, SROs, DPH, food pantries, CBOs,etc)

Increase their presence at the CalFresh office

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What is EatFresh.org?1. A soon-to-be-created website with nutrition/cooking

information for CalFresh clients and those likely eligible

2. Linked (bi-directionally) to existing sites where people can apply on line for CalFresh and other benefits

3. Three such sites used in CA by designated counties: MyBenefitsCalWIN, C4Yourself and Leader

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MyBenefitsCalWIN HOMEPAGE

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Where MyBCW takes you when select Food/Nutrition icon:

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C4Yourself.gov HOME PAGE

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Where C4 takes you when select Food/Nutrition icon:

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• User-friendly• Engaging• Graphic• Low literacy• Low computer-literacy• 3 Languages

Characteristics of the Site

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Functionality of EatFresh.org1. Searchable recipe/cooking database

a. Can search in three ways: • food (broccoli), • cooking term (saute), • meal type (kid-friendly, SRO-friendly, etc)

2. Banners/Ads pushing info, such as:a. Number of sugar cubes in a sodab. Foods to be avoid if you have diabetes

3. Moderated forum • Users submit questions, nutritionist posts answers

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Who is creating the site?

1. The San Francisco Human Services Agency has contracted with Leah’s Pantry for content management of the site. LP will provide the majority of the content, including a wide range of Network materials.

2. SFHSA is processing a contract with a vendor specializing in web development and design.

3. LP will host the site for the first year, maintaining content, moderating forum, etc.

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What Counties can do:

(1) Talk to your Human Services Agency Consortium about getting involved with EatFresh.com.

(2) Fill out the survey we are passing around the room. We need your input on what County-specific information you’d like to see on the website. (Farmers markets, pantries, etc).

(3) On the home page there will be a place that counties can click. They will get a template form that they will fill out with information that they’d like to get uploaded to the site, and submit it for review.

(4) Leah’s Pantry will monitor the submissions, and do the uploads.

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Timeline

Launch Date of EatFresh.org:– Early September, 2013

When to get involved? – Now!

Tiana.Wertheim@sfgov.orgadrienne@leahspantrysf.org