March 25, 2015

End Child Hunger SC Meeting

Agenda with Minutes

Updates:
1. A Place at the Table Film Fest
5 film showings took place to build awareness about the issue of
child hunger and recruit others to be a part of End Child Hunger SC. Heres some news coverage of one of the showings:
http://www.wltx.com/story/life/2015/02/08/groups-work-to-fightchild-hunger-with-movie-screening/23092759/
If you would like to borrow the film to show at your civic club,
church, or agency please contact Heather McCue at
hmccue@richlandlibrary.com
2. Food Resource Guide Lauren Wilkie from Cooperative
Ministry and Ashley Page with Family Shelter created a community resource guide that details multiple community resources
families can access. Also included in this guide, are food resources that are assorted by day and if they are on a bus-line. If
you would like a copy of this guide please e-mail Lauren Wilkie
at lwilkie@coopmin.org
3. COPASCities community organizer
Ashley Page will be hired starting sometime this summer to
work for 20 hours a week as the community organizer for this
group through the COPASCities project at USC.

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End Child Hunger SC Meeting

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4. SNAP Healthy Bucks

Last year, this program was offered at 6 farmers markets. At
these locations if someone spent at least $2.50 with their own
SNAP money on produce they received an additional $5 to go towards more produce. The Dept. of Social Services is the implementing agency, and they are working to expand this program
this coming market season. If you know of a farmers market or
direct selling farmers market who wants to learn more or participate they can contact Krystal Chapman at DSS: krystal.L.chapman@dss.sc.gov. Heres a link to more info about the
program, based on the pilot implementation last year: http://
www.sc.edu/nutrition/doc/Pilot%20Implementation%20of%
20SNAP%20Healthy%20Bucks%20August%202014.pdf
5. Hunger Project video Brad Fleming shared about Feeding
Children Everywhere. The cost to an interested group to host a
hunger project is 25 cents per meal. Groups can decide who gets
the meals. For more info: http://
www.feedingchildreneverywhere.com/
http://www.feedingchildreneverywhere.com/portfolio-items/what
-is-a-hunger-project/
http://www.feedingchildreneverywhere.com/portfolio-items/
feeding-children-everywhere-introduces-us-hunger/

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End Child Hunger SC Meeting

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6. Other updates or announcements from group

- The community eligibility provision is an option for high poverty
schools and school districts. Opting in allows participating
school and school districts to offer free meals to all students.
More info can be found at these links:
http://scjustice.org/2014/06/03/community-eligibility/
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=4187
https://ed.sc.gov/agency/os/health-nutrition/
- Many backpack programs across the Midlands are in need of
assistance. In Richland School District 2 alone, 12 of their schools
will not have community sponsors for the backpack program. If
you are interested in assisting with the backpack program please
contact Abby Cobb at 803-691-4870 ext. 31603
Branding
1. Logo (Ran out of time to discuss. Will revisit next time, or
if anyone has an interest in designing or ideas about a logo, let
Carrie Draper know!)
2. Social media Please join our facebook page and invite others to joinEnd Child Hunger SC. So far, we have 44 likes.

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End Child Hunger SC Meeting

Agenda with Minutes

Goals for now through the summer

To create and meet via the following subgroups:
1. Advocacy: To determine an advocacy agenda for the group
2. Summer Feeding: Recruiting more summer feeding site partners for Richland 1 and Richland 2; to explore how we can
help support the expansion of summer feeding sites in other
counties
3. Community Eligibility Provision: Helping spread the word
about this option for eligible schools and school districts.
4. Backpack Programs:To recruit more sponsors for this program
for next school year.
Recruiting more people to the group
It was suggested to recruit colleges and universities since
some students are impacted by hunger (for example, USC has a
food pantry for students on campus)
Next meeting date
To be determined.