San Francisco s SNAP Ed Innovations Grant Teaching nutrition

San Francisco’s SNAP Ed. Innovations Grant Teaching nutrition to Cal. Fresh customers, and to CBO staff & Creating Eat. Fresh. org Tiana. Wertheim@sfgov. org San Francisco Human Services Agency

Teaching Nutrition, Component 1 of the grant: Leah’s Pantry and the San Francisco Food Bank are collaboratively teaching nutrition to Cal. Fresh 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) San Francisco Human Services Agency 2

Objectives of Leah’s Pantry and the SF Food Bank: Ø Engage residents in addition to CBO staff - as class participants and as trainers Ø Equip CBOs to teach their own classes, rather than relying on the help of an outside agency Ø Continue to support the work of 300+ partners (homeless shelters, SROs, DPH, food pantries, CBOs, etc) Ø Increase their presence at the Cal. Fresh office San Francisco Human Services Agency 3

What is Eat. Fresh. org? 1. A soon-to-be-created website with nutrition/cooking information for Cal. Fresh clients and those likely eligible 2. Linked (bi-directionally) to existing sites where people can apply on line for Cal. Fresh and other benefits 3. Three such sites used in CA by designated counties: My. Benefits. Cal. WIN, C 4 Yourself and Leader San Francisco Human Services Agency 4

My. Benefits. Cal. WIN HOMEPAGE San Francisco Human Services Agency 5

Where My. BCW takes you when select Food/Nutrition icon: San Francisco Human Services Agency 6

C 4 Yourself. gov HOME PAGE San Francisco Human Services Agency 7

Where C 4 takes you when select Food/Nutrition icon: San Francisco Human Services Agency 8

Characteristics of the Site • • • User-friendly Engaging Graphic Low literacy Low computer-literacy 3 Languages San Francisco Human Services Agency 9

Functionality of Eat. Fresh. org 1. 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 soda b. Foods to be avoid if you have diabetes 3. Moderated forum • Users submit questions, nutritionist posts answers San Francisco Human Services Agency 10

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. San Francisco Human Services Agency 11

What Counties can do: 1. Talk to your Human Services Agency Consortium about getting involved with Eat. Fresh. 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. San Francisco Human Services Agency 12

Timeline Launch Date of Eat. Fresh. org: – Early September, 2013 When to get involved? – Now! Tiana. Wertheim@sfgov. org adrienne@leahspantrysf. org San Francisco Human Services Agency 13