tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70937987277281046462024-03-05T22:38:02.004-08:00Buncombe CHIP Food Security WorkgroupCHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-46680712111851504252018-12-28T12:09:00.005-08:002018-12-28T12:09:48.018-08:00An Open Invitation to Engage in CHIP Food Security Work<br />
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Buncombe County Food Security Leaders, </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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two years there has been a convening of organizations under the CHIP
umbrella leading efforts to eliminate food insecurity within our
communities. We are nearing the end of this CHIP 3-year cycle and, for
the first time, our CHIP process is intentionally addressing how to ensure work
around current CHIP priorities can continue regardless of what is prioritized
for this next cycle. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">A part of this shift, the YMCA of
Western North Carolina and ABIPA in partnership with MAHEC and Buncombe County
have been tasked with championing efforts moving forward to address diabetes,
with the YMCA taking lead on the convening of the Food Security group. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With CHIP priorities potentially
shifting (deemed CHIP 2.0) this has presented the opportunity to also
reconfigure our Food Security Workgroup moving forward while honoring and
building upon previous efforts where it makes sense. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In conversation with several partners,
we thought it best to first take a step back from large group meetings to
formulate a small Thought Group of community champions to help drive strategic
goals, priorities, and structure for our work moving forward. This group began
to meet in July and has met several times since to help draft the strategic
framework before calling a large, community meeting to present this vision. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">After these conversations, we are now
ready to re-convene and share what our Thought Group has created as a template
moving forward. We will be hosting a work session on </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">January 8th from 9-11 am at MAHEC in the “Blue Ridge B” room within their education building. And yes, there have been several previous dates that have been canceled due to weather and other factors. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Prior to the meeting we will also be hosting a quick networking and coffee session starting at 8:30am. This will serve as an opportunity to ask any questions from the documents from past work and get settled for our time as a collective group. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b><u>Please RSVP by January 4th</u> to <a href="mailto:cjackson@ymcawnc.org" target="_blank">Cory Jackson</a></b> to ensure that we have an accurate head count. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>To set the stage for our time next week, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4U3b4pmp4M5nkY_9MCZFj7rMBwl_ZAl9an_DiUwfF0/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a> </span>are some important documents pertaining to the CHIP work within Food Security over the past few years.</b> We will use this as a starting point for our discussions but <b><u>we wanted to ensure that everyone had a chance to review prior the meeting</u></b>. The main page breaks down the history of the work and at the bottom you will find another link connecting to supporting documents. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is an open invite for anyone who is currently working within food security related work in Buncombe County, please feel free to share with your partners as you see fit but please limit the number of representatives from each agency to 2</span></div>
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<br />CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-61792469697850990742018-10-02T07:22:00.003-07:002018-10-02T07:22:40.964-07:00Food Security Workgroup Progress and Hunger Month<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In August we caught you up to date on what is happening as the Food Security Workgroup took a brief pause to consider what our work looks like as we move to reconvene with the YMCA serving as the convener and facilitator. A Food Security Thought Group has been meeting
regularly over the past few months to create a framework to re-launch the larger community group in the
next couple of months. By leveraging the work that has already been completed, the hope
is to draft a sustainable structure that allows for continued community
collaboration for years to come. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Be on the lookout for a community food forum
date soon!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, <b>September was National Hunger Awareness Month </b>and many of our organizations were working to raise awareness of hunger in Buncombe County and the region and what we are doing to address this critical issue as well as the resources to support this work. Bruce Ganger, ED of Bounty and Soul wrote weekly opinion pieces during September that were featured in the Black Mountain News and the Asheville Citizen Times. You can find the pieces from <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="https://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/life/columnists/2018/09/06/taking-action-during-hunger-action-month/1148923002/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Week 1</span></a>, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/life/2018/09/12/exploring-intersection-hunger-and-health/1221539002/" target="_blank">Week 2</a>, <a href="https://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/opinion/2018/09/19/examining-implications-hunger-community/1300742002/" target="_blank">Week 3</a></span></b></span> and <a href="https://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/life/columnists/2018/09/26/moving-forward-path-address-hunger-and-health/1379424002/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Week 4</span></b></a> here. And local food writer, Cathy Cleary spoke with many of our partners about the value of collaboration in addressing food security and published <b><i><a href="https://mountainx.com/food/collaboration-is-key-but-challenging-for-organizations-fighting-food-insecurity/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Collaboration is key but challenging for organizations fighting food insecurity</span></a></i></b> in the Mountain Xpress.</span></div>
<br />CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-45619598675415901932018-07-26T08:42:00.001-07:002018-09-04T14:19:42.272-07:00CHIP Food Security 2.0 - August 2018<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">A part of this shift, the YMCA of Western North Carolina and ABIPA in partnership with MAHEC and Buncombe County are lead agencies for Diabetes in efforts moving forward with the YMCA taking lead on the convening of the Food Security group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">With CHIP priorities potentially shifting (deemed CHIP 2.0) this has presented the opportunity to also reconfigure our Food Security Workgroup moving forward while honoring and building upon previous efforts where it makes sense. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In conversation with several partners, we thought it best to first take a step back from large group meetings to formulate a small Thought Group of community champions to help drive strategic goals, priorities, and structure for our work moving forward. This group began to meet in July and will meet three times to help draft the strategic framework before calling a large, community meeting to present this vision. Once this community meeting takes place the Thought Group will meet one more time to incorporate any feedback received before officially dissolving into a large community group moving forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, our Food Security Collaborative has been engaged in providing input into this reset process to ensure the work to date is honored and built upon. They have provided a <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GeJmcnjhzu2kvk9cCYSvuMYelc16YpvTqqw6JVZ_HIE" target="_blank">summary of the work</a></span></b> for the Thought Partner group, highlighting key work products. In addition, a noteworthy highlight for the Collaborative is the <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GT_HobgJi4z7RVjses82fP8TdXi9uu67" target="_blank">report and recommendations from Leadership Asheville</a></b></span> on potential models for collaboration that can help inform our food security work moving forward. This record was also shared with the Thought Partner Group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Additional noteworthy items for Food Security include a group being convened to consider how to best <b>share information about food security assets and resources</b> with service providers. This work originated as MAHEC clinical staff is beginning to work with the YMCA mobile market and nutrition program. The desire was to be able to connect patients with the resources that best meet their needs and not just providing connections to the YMCA resources. This group has met twice and is exploring an easy to use online map.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Double Up Food Bucks</b> continues to be a successful program. A few highlights include:</span><br />
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<li><b>Individuals served</b>: A total of 352 low income individuals receiving SNAP benefits compared
to our stated objective of serving at least 150 low income individuals
receiving SNAP benefits</li>
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<li><b>Produce $ spent</b>: A total of $10,380 DUFB matching funds for produce
purchases compared with our $10,960 stated objective in this area. We fully
anticipate exceeding that goal within the next 2-3 months. </li>
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<li><b>DUFB transactions</b>: 2,845 DUFB transactions have been made, including those transactions
in which DUFB were both spent and earned (goal was just 550 produce purchases with DUFB matching dollars) with an average of
$21.45 of Double Up Food Bucks per DUFB expenditure transaction. This is with West Village Market only beginning the program in October of
2017. </li>
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<li><b>Lessons learned</b>: We have learned that the Point of
Sale system is the number one barrier for this program operating smoothly. When
the West Village Market launched in October they did not have their systems
running smoothly, and the store owner believes that may have turned off some
initial DUFB customers. The French Broad Food Co-op has struggled with
convincing their POS software company to make changes to their system to allow
the DUFB process to be fully automated. This means that they are still relying
on paper coupons to award and recoup DUFB matching dollars, despite the high
volume of customers there.</li>
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<li><b>Surprising win: </b>The BC DHHS robo-call system can be an extremely effective way to reach many thousands of
SNAP recipients in our targeted geographic area to alert them about the
program. We timed this call so that it would be when both stores had ample time
to smooth their DUFB transactional systems and when both stores are carrying
enough locally grown produce to make the trip to the store to access DUFB worth
it for new customers. Both stores are reporting a large increase in the number
of DUFB related calls, visits, and applications being processed since the
robo-call went out. </li>
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<li>N<b>ext Steps</b>: Requesting a
USDA Waiver for Patchwork Urban Farms to become a third DUFB site in Buncombe
County and in talks with Hopey and Company on S. French Broad to
become a fourth. Also working closely with MountainWise for almost a year now to
develop a transitional strategy to be able to hand over the Lead Agent role for
the DUFB to them in the fall of 2018. </li>
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CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-42360604569665297322017-12-21T10:08:00.000-08:002018-01-12T11:31:39.366-08:00Fall Update 2017<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Double Up Food Bucks</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">DUFB has continued to see success with this pilot effort. <b>West Village Market</b> began participating in October as our s</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">econd retail market. To date we have<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>233 participants </b>adding <b>63 in this quarter</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over<b> $4,600 of produce was purchased with the with DUFB matching funds!</b> This is with very little promotion effort. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the biggest challenges so far has been related to what happens at the cash register with the point of sale software. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">DUFB participants are not able to complete a fully electronic transaction when using DUFB to purchase produce at the FBFC. The FBFC has been trying to address this with their software vendor but they have been very slow to respond</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">West Village Market was able to have point of sale software customized for DUFB sales avoiding the challenge below with the FBFC and we hope to be able to address the FBFC challenges soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are also excited to report that an a<b>pplication has been submitted by MountainWise to the USDA for a 3-year, $300,000 grant</b> to expand DUFB in Buncombe and our western counties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A subgroup of the Food Security Workgroup has been working to develop a plan for how to build a coordinated structure that allows us to share human resources and assets and to make referrals among our organizations as well as to appropriate safety net programs. The creation of a network structure via MOUs, operation guidelines and a shared measurement system will increase our visibility with community leaders and funders attracting new partners, funding and joint opportunities. These actions will increase the capacity and sustainability of food security partners and demonstrate the impact of our collective work to address food security. We also recognize that policy and environmental approaches can have a significant impact in addressing food security and our collective voice has the potential to strengthen our advocacy efforts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A general <b>action plan </b>for the next 6 months, along with <b>ground rules, a group agreement structure </b>as well as a shared <b>"elevator speech" and inital metrics </b>have been developed for the next 6 months and Leadership Asheville is partnering with us to research existing models that we could apply to this process and will be presenting us with recommendations this spring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We also look to be moving forward again with our larger circle of food security workgroup members around shared measures and collaboration for our nutrition education and skill building work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In preparation to increase technical support for data and evaluation, CHIP HIS staff <b>worked with the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council and UNC Asheville to host an RBA training</b>. This will help the ABFPC prepare to implement and evaluate the City of Asheville Food Action Plan just approved by City Council. It will also enable UNCA faculty and students provide support with data needs of our CHIP partners. The training is already paying off. A few days after the training a DUFB program support staff meet with a UNCA student to map out a project for Spring Semester. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In early December, CHIP HIS staff help plan and host Increasing Healthy Food Access in Rural NC. Aproximately 30 public health and nutrition professionals from across the region learned about from federal, state and local experts on food insecurity and the policies and practices that impact that security as well as highlighting innovative projects happening in Western North Carolina and the lessons learned from each. Two CHIP partners, Ali Caparian from Bounty and Soul and Nan Kramer from MountainWise and DUFB shared their innovative programs.</span>CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-48340070007092102242017-07-30T12:05:00.002-07:002017-08-02T18:29:06.693-07:00Moving toward Sustainability - Supporting a Food Security Network in Buncombe County<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Food Security Workgroup members met on July 24th for a process to begin identifying what a potential formal collaborative process would look like to assist in expanding the capacity and sustainability of those nonprofits doing work around food security. This process built on survey feedback from partners that </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">identified shared values, barriers and supports to our work as well as look at funders and connectors being accessed across our partnership. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A second meeting to complete this process will be held in August with the outcome of identifying a clear structure for collaboration and a detailed action plan for moving forward with an emphasis on innovation and substantive actions.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bountiful Cities</b> has been awarded funding through </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Aetna</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Foundation</span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">’s <b>Cultivating Healthy Communities program</b> for 18 months beginning in October of 2017. This highly competitive national grant program has chosen the Community Food Education Collaborative, a joint-project of <b>FEAST, Women's Wellbeing and Development Foundation (WWD-F), and Bountiful Cities</b> for an award amount of $53,000. These dollars will fund the bulk of 18 months of <b>FEAST's cooking and gardening education at Hall Fletcher Elementary, 3 seasonal series of the 12 week Strong Roots youth community gardening education program with Bountiful Cities, and 18 months of resident-led cooking classes at the Hillcrest Resource Center with WWD-F</b>. Additionally, the grant provides funds for WWD-F, FEAST, and Bountiful Cities to work together to cross-reference and compare programmatic components in order to improve each program's content and delivery. <b>All three programs will be utilizing the CHIP</b></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Food Security Education & Skill Building Collaborative Measures</b> to record the effectiveness of the programs' ability to increase measures related to participants' overall food security. This information will then be entered into the CHIP Scorecard in order to track and compare results across all participating Food Education programs in Asheville and Buncombe County. This grant is an example of the CHIP's Food Security Working Group beginning to effect results and increase collaboration among Asheville and Buncombe County non-profits.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The<u> </u></span><b style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><u>Double Up Food Bucks</u> (DUFB) has launched at the French Broad Food Coop! </b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bountiful Cities was awarded funding from the WNC</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Community Foundation for this pilot to increase access to fruits and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">vegetables for SNAP recipients. The DUFB program <b>awards a dollar for each SNAP dollar used to purchase <u>locally grown produce</u></b>.<b>These dollars can then be spent to purchase </b></span><b style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><u>any other fruit and veggies</u> purchased from the same establishment.</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The program had a soft roll-out in late June to insure there were no difficulties with the technology and logistics before broadly promoting. After only 3 weeks the program is running very smoothly. And despite only word-of-mouth promotion, 86 individuals have signed up over 100 transactions, well beyond what was expected at this point. The waiver process from the USDA is well-underway and we anticipate the <b>West Village Market </b>to come on board as the second market in the next few weeks.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This 2017 pilot is an exciting scaleable effort to develop a successful model in WNC in preparation for submitting a USDA Food Insecurity Nutrition Initiative (FINI) grant in 2018 to expand to more retail outlets in Buncombe and surrounding counties. Eventually this is expected to be a statewide initiative and conversations are underway with Durham and Wilmington. Moving forward </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">MountainWise, a non-profit serving the counties west of Buncombe, will be the lead agency in this effort as DUFB expands initially into Haywood County. </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>The Ask for <span style="color: red;">July</span>:</u></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>We continue to <u>need you to help us identify volunteers to serve as Double Up Liaisons</u>.</b> These volunteers should be SNAP recipients and individuals who need 20 volunteer hours a week to maintain their SNAP eligibility. <b>Take a look at the <a href="file:///C:/Users/e12854/Documents/Food%20Insecurity-CHIP/DUFB%20Flyer.pdf">Double Up Volunteer flyer, </a> print it off, and share it with individuals that might be a good fit for this opportunity</b>.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We also welcome you to <b>begin letting individuals know about the program and how they can participate</b>. Click here to download a flyer to share. The plan is to begin larger outreach efforts as soon as the West Village Market location launches. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For more information on the Double Up program, take a look at </span><a href="https://mountainx.com/food/double-up-food-bucks-program-benefits-both-asheville-snap-participants-and-local-farmers/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>this article</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> written by the Mountain Xpress!</span></blockquote>
<br />CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-22163429037827424632017-06-15T17:54:00.000-07:002017-06-15T17:54:36.230-07:00Mountain Xpress Feature on DUFB!CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-24024168071382151912017-03-30T11:03:00.004-07:002017-04-14T08:23:30.995-07:00March - Working Toward Efficiency, Effectiveness & Sustainability<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The full Food Security Workgroup met on March 27th to share updates and further the work around shared strategies. (Details are summarized on the meeting powerpoint).</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>The Education and Skill Building Team</u></b> - Working off the Action Map created at the January Workgroup meeting, a team has been meeting to create parameters for the types of partners to include in a food security education and skill-building collaborative as well as begin the process of identifying a process and tool for capturing shared performance measures. The tool was shared with a discussion on needed changes and suggestions to make it better meet our needs.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Double Up Food Bucks</u></b> - The Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council received funding from the WNC Community Foundation to begin a pilot program in 2 Buncombe County retail markets with an anticipated launch date in late April. A required USDA waiver has been applied for. This process identified current software challenges that led Mother Earth Produce to decide to step back and wait for the DUFB expansion in the Fall rather than be an initial pilot retail organization. West Village Market is prepared to step in as the 2nd retail organization and waiver application has been submitted this this market. (note, blanket waiver occurs with USDA FINI funding). A LOI has been submitted to Mission CI for expansion funds, if successful this will take us through Sept/Oct of next year, when Mountain Wise will be taking over as the lead agent. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Conversations are also taking place with Hopey. There are several barriers such as no point of sale software system system. They also don’t carry as much local produce as they could and we are working with them to increase this…partnership beginning.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plans are moving forward to apply for USDA FINI funding with MountainWise as the lead. The DUFB will still need to secure bridge funding through CFWNC grant in January of 2018, and some other funding source to supplement funds between October 2018 and when FINI funds become available in 2019.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u><b>YMCA </b></u>(Ella) </span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- The YMCA's clinical pilot with 5 participating clinics is beginning to see results. Clinical partners are all Mission My Care Plus clinics (Leceister, Candler, Old Fort, Sweeten Creek and Asheville Pediatrics. The YMCA provides food and and the mobile kitchen twice a month. Currently there have been 127 referrals to the nutrition program with 80-90% returns at each site. Feedback has been very positive and they hope to expand to 8 clinical sites. MANNA is a key partner in developing and implementing this model Note: Good location to provide info on DUFB</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u><b>MANNA</b></u> (Amy) - MANNA is doing more work to integrate nutrition into the work of the 220+ MANNA using the <a href="https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/explore-our-work/nutrition-education-initiatives/strategies/nudges/?_ga=1.19245244.52609272.1490237781" target="_blank">Feeding America Nudge model</a> ..nudging them to begin making healthier substitutes. They are also partnering with COOP Extension to help support Nudge partners with food demonstrations and education. Ultimately the goal is for a pantry to be able to do some nutrition education without having a professional onsite. There will be more attention around home canning (with clear understanding of risk and how to ensure safe practices). MANNA is actively engaged with the YMCA's clinical pilot as well as working to support Bounty and Soul's community nutrition work.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Bounty and Soul</u></b> (Ali) - Bounty and Soul is piloting a clinical health coaching program in addition to their broader community nutrition and health education programming. They are halfway thru their first round of this pilot. They are beginning a partnership with MAHEC Family in Swannanoa with a goal to work with 16 people this year. They are already seeing significant changes with some of the participants. Beyond coaching, the program includes regular exercise class opportunities, stress management and other support for a holistic approach.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our conversation to prioritize systems change approaches uncovered major concerns by all partners in the room about potential and significant changes to the funding landscape and a recognition that our systems change conversation should start with the core food security organizations that have been long-term active partners in this work. Along the lines of collaboration among our education and skill-building activities, there are many opportunities to collaborate for the purpose of increasing efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. Designing a food security collaboration that focuses on shared functions such as administrative support and volunteers as well as identifying long-term funding that minimizes competition and promotes sustainability with a stated goal to:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shared measures</span></li>
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<li>Create shared a document to begin answering key questions --- schedule lunch meeting to identify questions, </li>
<li>Revisit and expand on initial conversations facilitated through Missions Community Investment initial work with food security organizations to identify what work is being done and who is part of “this system”</li>
<li>Explore assistance to map/visualize “the system”</li>
<li>Consider engaging media partners</li>
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CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-71530331274380386842017-03-21T12:37:00.004-07:002017-03-21T12:58:17.080-07:00February - Workgroup Meeting Structure, Momentum and Exciting News<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK8" style="color: black; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thanks to all who responded to our brief questionnaire on how to structure our meetings moving forward! The results show that:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Monday afternoons appear to work for almost of of you with late afternoon and eliminating the 3rd Monday make it work for a few more.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Meeting bi-monthly and combining the larger group with time for subgroup work was preferred by a majority.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A few of you expressed a willingness to participate on a small leadership team. I'll reach out and set up a meeting over lunch or coffee in the next month to explore what that might look like.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our next meeting will be the 4th Monday of <strong>March (3/27) from 3-5 at MAHEC in the Pisgah Room of the Education Building. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Moving forward, through the first of the year our meetings will be from 3-5 on the following Mondays...</strong></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">May 22 - Buncombe County HHS, Hughes Building</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">July 24 - MAHEC Blue Ridge A</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt;">September 24th <b>(no location)</b></span></li>
<li>November 27 - <span style="font-size: 11pt;">MAHEC </span>Cherokee</li>
<li>January 22 - <span style="font-size: 11pt;">MAHEC </span>Pisgah</li>
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A small team (Cory Jackson w/YMCA, Kate Justen w/FEAST, Cathy Hohenstein with NC Cooperative Extension and Terri March) have met several times to begin work on what was considered the next step in our <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="font-size: 11pt;">Skill Building and Education Collaborative</strong></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The team has created a </span><strong style="font-size: 11pt;">very simple definition for what type of program would be included</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in this collaborative as well as </span><strong style="font-size: 11pt;">drafted some shared questions that these organizations could use with their clients/customers</strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #383838; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council with Bountiful Cities serving as the fiscal agent has been awarded funding by the Community Foundation of WNC for the</span></span><span style="color: #383838; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline;"> <strong style="font-size: 11pt;">Double Up Bucks</strong></span><span style="color: #383838; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> initiative. The planning team, including numerous FS Workgroup members, has been meeting monthly to address logistics for the anticipated April roll out. We are currently waiting to receive a required (and expected) waiver from the USDA to proceed. Once that is obtained, the date for the program launch can be announced and we will begin sharing materials and information to get the word out to SNAP </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">recipients</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> as well as community </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">agencies</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and organizations that can help spread the word. The initial retail partners will be the French Broad Food Coop and Mother Earth Produce. The planning team is already working identifying future retail partners and on securing funding for expansion leading up to a USDA grant application in 2018.</span></span></div>
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CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-12359311088427510062017-01-28T13:33:00.001-08:002017-03-21T12:05:01.396-07:00January - Action Planning for Skills-based Education Collaboration<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Food Security Workgroup met on January 13th. The majority of the meeting focused on development of a draft action plan around our strategy to: <i><b>Establish a community-wide approach to collaborating with and referring to existing skills-based education programs to address healthy eating and food security</b></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After defining who our "customers" were for this strategy, we identified potential common performance metrics for the results we hope to see. We then drafted a map of action steps needed to impact these metrics. As we move forward, we will need to modify, clarify and expand it, but it is a great start and something we can work with. Please take a few minutes to review the meeting notes and the draft action map. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A small team will meeting in early February to create criteria for the type of education program that will be included in this collaborative. Additional next steps include meeting with identified potential partners and stakeholders for this strategy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lastly, we need to identify what your preference is for the structure of these meetings moving forward. I've created a very brief questionnaire to get you input. I ask that you respond in the next few days so we can schedule our next meeting and keep the momentum going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Click here for detailed <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13tDlxIkqwbHN6kUvE0Xons8LxcQ_r7MiB7CtB_lp16I/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>meeting minutes</b></span></a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3onWxdotvQMOFFQeTB1ZmhYS0E" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">powerpoint</span></b></a> (agenda, meeting structure and background info), and <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3onWxdotvQMSjVwYTdVNnFMOE0" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">draft action plan</span></b></a> or visit the links on the righthand toolbar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-5765701888466876032016-12-13T08:16:00.002-08:002016-12-13T10:27:27.883-08:00December: Education & Skills, Policy & Systems Change and Double Up Food Bucks Strategy Areas<div style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="background: white;">Below is a summary of the Strategy Group work from our November Meeting. If you are involved in the CHIP Food Security work, <b>please review and identify where you would like to focus your energy. </b> The Double Up Food Bucks currently is the only group with solid action steps. The other two have opportunity to help clarify and shape what will take place over the next few months. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Our next meeting will take place in January. <b><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/gbcmssevr4ym523y" target="_blank">Visit the meeting doodle</a> </b>to let me know what dates you are available. After this next meeting we will evaluate how often we will be meeting and what is the preference for how we meet (as a whole group with "team" work or if groups wish to schedule separately. I know there is some crossover involvement. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Action plan work to date prioritizes building on local
successes related to 5 categories of intervention approaches. Using
current assets and that can be committed to this work, teams identified the
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referring to existing skills-based education programs to address healthy
eating and food security.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">Create a
model for policy and environmental change to support food security. </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">Implement a
Double Up Food Bucks program in local retail settings.</span></li>
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key concepts, areas to explore and action steps for each of the 3 areas.</div>
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Build on
existing relationships with partner organizations to further educational
opportunities. Build the network between organizations.</div>
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Groups present: FEAST, YMCA, Mission CI</div>
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The <span style="font-weight: bold;">YMCA and FEAST</span> identified how this approach can
work between their organizations</div>
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<li>YMCA nutrition programs talk
to participants in their educational programs to see which of them have
kids in FEAST partner schools. Make connections between the
nutrition education happening with the students @ FEAST and the parents @
The YMCA</li>
<li>FEAST introduce the YMCA
educators working with adults to school staff. Teachers learn about
wellness programs via the YMCA that are available to them as
educators. Parents learn about available programs that may be
available to them.</li>
<li>FEAST introduce YMCA
educators to our partner school social worker as an option to connect to
families in need. </li>
<li>Communication between FEAST
classes and the mobile kitchen is ongoing, The mobile kitchen knows what
FEAST students have been doing so they can reference it in their
demonstrations and produce distribution.</li>
<li>Find other services and
avenues of communication between our organizations that can help to bring
home the knowledge and skills they are learning with each of us</li>
<li>Tailor education to coincide
between programs to strengthen the message to both youth and adults.
Allowing stronger educational take home points.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">YMCA Mobile Kitchen acts as a
mobile education site that can fill education gaps on the service map.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Bridge educational
initiatives currently in place to strengthen the overall goal in nutrition
education to reflect a decrease in the percentage of food insecurity and
increase percentage fruit and vegetable consumption. These bridges act as
strongholds and ensure a direct reflection of where education gaps truly
exist.</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Policy and Systems Change</span></div>
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Groups
present: MANNA FoodBank, Youth Empowered Solutions, Mission Community
Investment</div>
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Key
Strengths/Resources:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Expertise on best practice
models</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Existing programs, trainings,
etc. offered to the community</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Network of providers</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Connections with agencies
across other sectors</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Key Ideas:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Align multiple funders in
support of broader, multi-year projects</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Engage general public, key
community leaders, and youth in addressing food insecurity</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Train youth as community
leaders, and adults to work with youth</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Leverage
existing networks to expand connectivity between programs and resources,
and the people who need them</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Strategies and Ideas:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;" value="1"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration: underline;">Existing
Program with Potential to Grow</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">: Food Insecurity Screening and Referral Pilot project
(MANNA) utilizes MANNA’s expertise in the client-choice pantry model, and
connects to Mission’s network of providers, who are streamlining and
unifying practice models that incorporate connections to community
resources. </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration: underline;">Growth
Opportunity</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> -
Youth in the community are an untapped resource in creating access to food
assistance with less stigma.</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;" value="1"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Youth Empowered
Solutions has experience and expertise in engaging youth as community
leaders and they can share training for adults working with youth </span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Mission has athletic
trainers in many schools across the county through its Sports Medicine
programs; this is a potential connection point between programming and
students, who establish rapport with athletic trainers that they may not
have with other adults. Opportunity to engage students who may be in need
and connect with student ambassadors for food insecurity resources</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">MANNA has Packs for Kids
partners in 16 counties, allowing early engagement of kids in youth
leadership opportunities</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">MANNA and Youth Empowered
Solutions can share advocacy training, possibly engage youth as advocates
for their communities’ food security</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;" value="3"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration: underline;">Growth
Opportunity – Community Alignment and Awareness</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;" value="1"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Engaging
community funders to align with CHA priorities and direct more resources
to critical work</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Engage community members and
leaders through Poverty Simulations, creating a deeper awareness and
level of engagement for the general public and decision-makers</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Connect
with community groups (ex. churches within MANNA’s network) to support
needs like transportation through their existing resources</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Environmental
Change</span></div>
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Establish a Double Up Bucks program in Buncombe County</div>
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Short term result: Pilot a Double Up Food Bucks Program in a small
retail market in partnership with Mountain Wise as they pilot a site in a
western county. (<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3onWxdotvQMOGhlc2lMdlU3RVk" target="_blank">Click here for a one-pager on DUFB</a>)</div>
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Groups Present: ABFPB, Bountiful Cities, Buncombe HHS</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Identify second small retail
location to participate in pilot. ( French Broad Food Coop is
committed).</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Secure funding for pilot
(conversations underway with Community Foundation)</span></li>
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Based on current resources action steps specific to CHIP process:</div>
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Develop a system for awareness and community
support of DUFB and the role of retail access in addressing food security
by: </div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Request for CHIP network to distribute the AB Food
Policy Council Food Action Plan survey to networks and constituencies.
The will inform the work of the ABFPC going forward including the
Double Up Food Bucks</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Present the DUFB program to the CHIP Advisory Council
with request for input into Funding and identification of a lead agency as
the program moves from pilot to broader implementation.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Request formal endorsement of DUFB by CHIP</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Request that a</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.5pt;">ll CHIP partners share the DUFB program information and
availability with their EBT/SNAP-using clients/contacts</span></li>
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CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-14597156582600869572016-11-28T13:09:00.003-08:002016-12-07T10:06:18.093-08:00November Update<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Our current Population
Health Community Indicators include Fruit and Vegetable consumption
(every 3 years) and Food Insecurity (annual). <a href="http://app.resultsscorecard.com/Result/Embed/16806">http://app.resultsscorecard.com/Result/Embed/16806</a>. We will be attempting to identify m</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ore timely data and data that more accurately
reflects Food Security (vs insecurity). Some of this frustration may be
partially alleviated when we begin collecting performance measure on our
strategies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span><b style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Team members will research additional measures around food
security, School Free and Reduced Lunch, and Snap
Recipient caseload.</b><br />
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on Community Activity</u></b></span></div>
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</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>Double-Up
Food Bucks</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Developed by
Michigan’s <b>Fair Food Network</b> (FFN), DUFB doubles the value of
SNAP/EBT benefits spent at farmers markets and grocery stores. Dollars
earned ($1/ $1 spent) purchasing produce can be used to buy local fresh or
frozen fruits and vegetables helping people bring home more healthy fruits and
vegetables while supporting local farmers. DUFB has demonstrated
increases in fruit & vegetable consumption, grocery story profit, and local
growers benefit. The USDA FINI grant has funded the SNAP benefit match
with many of these. The bulk of the funds needed to support DUFB is for
the SNAP benefit dollar match. A local match is required.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A FINI grant likely
not feasible this year. Not all pieces are in place and biggest
piece is who will "house" the grant. The Asheville Buncombe
Food Policy does not have the capacity to "house" the program and
that is the biggest current need. Mountain Wise is possibly interested in
becoming a lead but not possible this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">ABFPC wants to
focus on grocery stores which is where most local folks are likely to
shop. Mountain Wise is willing to help in 1 grocery store pilot in 2017.
The French Broad Food Coop is very interested in being the pilot site this
year. This isn't ideal because it's not where most SNAP recipients are
shopping but it is scalable for future years. Also our coop uses the same
system that all coops across the state and other Coop's (including Durham) are
interested. Mountain Wise will identify and pilot another store in
west. This is an opportunity to figure out system, work out the kinks and
prepare for applying for FINI next year (and scale out regionally and to larger
stores. Food Lion is possibly interested). Getting the word out to
SNAP recipients will be a major part of the planning process. We are
working with the FFN on this. They have created tool kits with lots of
focus on marketing and education. FFN has made one trip to Asheville to
meet with partners and will continue to help advise us on the pilot and assist
in applying for the FINI grant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">UNC Asheville and
the NC Center for Health and Wellness will help with the evaluation components.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Corner Stores</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Healthy Corner
Stores are an evidenced-based approach to increase access to healthier foods in
small retail settings such as convenience stores. NC started this work in
2001 as a pilot in the far east NC as part of the Community Transformation
Grants Initiative. A major barrier to creating corner stores is support
in knowing how to successful order, display, and keep foods fresh. The
funds to upgrade are particularly challenging. CTG, YES! And others
advocated for a Healthy Food Financing Policy to support upfront costs, however
funds were not allocated. YES presented to the general assemble and
partial funds were allocated last year. The are now working on getting
the full allocation in the state budget<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Locally, YES is
working with a few stores. Funds to make additional changes in this store
are the major barrier for helping one corner store in Montford. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A RFP is out for
organizations who want to work with YES on creating Healthy Corner
Stores. The deadline is quick. If you know folks or have folks who
are interested in working with youth, please have them contact Diana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">This could also be
a great opportunity to incorporate Double-Up Food Bucks in Corner Stores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Community Investment Awards</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Seventeen agencies
and 16 projects received Community Investment Awards, Several were
collaborative project. Buncombe County HHS and Feast as well and MANNA
and the YMCA were funded. The YMCA/MANNA project is for clinical referral
with Mission Health Partners for the food insecure and using the YMCA mobile
kitchen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The next funding
will start earlier and Food Security will continue as a focus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mission is also
focusing internally on food security looking at how they are supporting
employees and patients in a way that is equitable and accessible (Mission
system-wide)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b><u>Revisiting
and Clarifying Strategies </u></b></span><br />
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<o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0px;"> Action plan work to date prioritizes building on local successes related related to 5 categories of intervention approaches</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0px;">. Using current assets and that can be committed to this work, teams are identifying strategies that 1) establish a community-wide approach to collaborating with and referring to existing skills-based education programs to address healthy eating and food security; 2) Implement a Double Up Food Bucks program in local retail settings; 3) Create a model for policy and environmental change to support food security. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><b><u>Next Steps</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Summaries of each of this strategies will be developed and shared in December and expanded teams will be developed to being working on strategies.</span></div>
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CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-90577645134001594062016-10-25T18:33:00.004-07:002016-10-25T18:33:45.919-07:00November 10th Workgroup Meeting Agenda & Homework<div style="background-color: white; color: #1b4179; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
Our next Food Security Workgroup will be held on November 10th, 9:30 - 12 at MAHEC in Blue Ridge B. Please <a alt="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI_Ww8JAArs0v4JkR2aUFQlmrkM5hxGtbwMTzvlytwvylmOg/viewform" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI_Ww8JAArs0v4JkR2aUFQlmrkM5hxGtbwMTzvlytwvylmOg/viewform" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">click here to RSVP</a>. Feel free to share this with others you think should be part of this process. I will also be reaching out to individuals/organizations we discussed an an earlier session.</div>
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Our agenda for the meeting includes:</div>
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<li style="color: #1b4179; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A report on several local strategies that are in various stages of development</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I mentioned in an earlier email, please take a few minutes to visit the scorecard before our next meeting. I would like your feedback on what is missing or needs to be changed. In particular, please look at the discussion of activities that are currently underway. This was completed some time ago with much of it constructed by our summer intern with input from me. I am confident information is missing and perhaps incorrect but this probably best comes from you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The following link is to the main </span><strong><a alt="https://app.resultsscorecard.com/Scorecard/Embed/17803" href="https://app.resultsscorecard.com/Scorecard/Embed/17803" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">Buncombe County Scorecard</a></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> that includes all of our priority work. A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>brief video tutorial</strong></span> is provided to help you learn how to navigate the scorecard. Scroll down the page and click on our <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Food Security Result</strong></span> where all our work to-date has been captured. Once redirected, to fully view all the content, click on the <strong>+</strong> by each of the community indicators (noted by a yellow C). Under each indicator click on each of the oval buttons below labeled "Data Description", "Story Behind the Curve", "What Works", and "Action Plan". My request above for special attention requires to the "What Works" section and the current work discussion. Just <strong><a href="mailto:Terri.March@mahec.net" linktype="2" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">email me your edits</a></strong>. Please remember that this is your scorecard and we want it to be correct!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you have difficulty accessing it online or just</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> prefer reading on paper, you can click here for a <a alt="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3onWxdotvQMLTNaSDNBeFloYnc/view?usp=sharing" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3onWxdotvQMLTNaSDNBeFloYnc/view?usp=sharing" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">pdf version</a> of our scorecard.</span></div>
CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-30619374241667267442016-10-05T05:54:00.002-07:002016-10-25T18:30:51.386-07:00October: November Meeting<div style="color: #1b4179;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since our work group last met in June, we have completed the first iteration of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong style="color: #1b4179;"><a alt="http://app.resultsscorecard.com/Result/Embed/16806" href="http://app.resultsscorecard.com/Result/Embed/16806" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: #3366ff;" target="_blank" track="on">our Food Security scorecard</a></strong><span style="color: #1b4179;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />as well as conducted research into data and strategies. Many of you participated in Mission's Community Investment grant process, developed some new working partners and are moving forward with new program plans. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's time to reconvene and get concrete on exactly which strategies we collectively want to work on. Some type of communication strategy seems to be a given based on our work sessions. However, exactly what messages we want to communicate and for what audience still needs to be discussed. There are also some policy and built/social environmental strategies that are gaining traction that could possibly benefit from collective support.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm also beginning to have conversations with some of you about how your work and your performance measures can begin to be reflected on the scorecard. And that seems to be a conversations that needs to be had with the whole working group especially as we talking about how to align our work around some common strategies. If 10 workgroup members are interested we can schedule our own training with WNC Healthy Impact on how to use RBA. Let me know if you are interested and we will talk more at our November meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've identified 3 potential meeting times and ask that you visit this </span><span style="color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a alt="http://doodle.com/poll/x6cs93k4ypsbkenp" href="http://doodle.com/poll/x6cs93k4ypsbkenp" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: #3366ff; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">doodle poll</a><span style="color: #1b4179;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and select which of these you are available for. </span><span style="color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between now and our meeting, I also ask that you visit the scorecard and provide feedback on what is missing or needs to be changed. The following link is to the main </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a alt="http://app.resultsscorecard.com/Scorecard/Embed/17803" href="http://app.resultsscorecard.com/Scorecard/Embed/17803" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: #3366ff; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">Buncombe County Scorecard</a><span style="color: #1b4179;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that includes all of our priority work. A brief video tutorial is provided to help you learn how to navigate the scorecard. Scroll down the page to find our Food Security Result where all our work to-date has been captured. If you have difficulty accessing it online or just prefer reading on paper, you can click here for a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a alt="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3onWxdotvQMb2MzbWhldFNSZGM/view?usp=sharing" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3onWxdotvQMb2MzbWhldFNSZGM/view?usp=sharing" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">pdf version</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b4179; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of our specific scorecard</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #1b4179;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The scorecard also includes information on some best practices that you could possible use here. And in particular (if you don't have enough to read), I very much encourage you read the </span><a alt="http://appalachianfoodshedproject.org/nc.html" href="http://appalachianfoodshedproject.org/nc.html" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: #3366ff; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" track="on">Appalachian Foodshed Project report about Community Food security in WNC</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b4179; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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CHIP Health Improvement Staffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777602188078991668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093798727728104646.post-85801469052709332232016-08-29T18:55:00.001-07:002016-08-29T18:55:17.044-07:00September Update<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This workgroup met on June 7th, clarifying results and indicators that will guide their work and develop more specificity and focus around strategies to pursue. July work focused on updated the scorecard and continuing to work on data. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An additional strategy has been added to support the work initiated by the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council (ABFPC) to explore and potentially bring a program to Buncombe County that would provide "Double Buck" incentives to SNAP participants to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. ABFPC, with participation of CHIP workgroup members hosted a 3-day planning and consultation visit with a representative of the Michigan's Fair Food Network. </span></div>
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