1. CHFND Coalition Coordinator Women in Leadership Development
Karen K. Ehrens, RD, LRD
CHFND Coalition Coordinator
Women in Leadership Development
September 14, 2017

2. Congratulations, Cara!!! North Dakota is so proud of you!
Photo credit: USA Today

3. September = Goals Structure and Sustainability Advocacy
maintain a coalition of a statewide network of organizations, groups and individuals
Advocacy
identify and advocate for the policy and systems changes that are necessary to meet the immediate hunger needs and address the underlying causes of hunger
Education and Outreach
provide and promote education and outreach opportunities
Information, Data and Research
identify and compile data and information and make material available
Information and awareness are components of all aspects and goals of the coalition

4. Hunger free North Dakota
A statewide network of organizations, agencies and individuals established to collectively identify and address the unmet food and hunger needs and their underlying causes with the vision of a
Hunger
free
North Dakota

5. WIC Program SNAP Program Aging Services
Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service
WIC Program
SNAP Program
Aging Services

6. ~ 28,160 North Dakota households face food insecurity
Food Security?
Food security for a household means access by all members at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum:
The ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods.
Assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (that is, without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other coping strategies)
Food Insecurity?
Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.
“Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”

7. What is the ‘poverty line’?
For a family of 3, earning less than $20,420/year
Minimum wage is $7.50/hour. A person working a minimum-wage, full-time job would earn $15,080/year.

8. ND AAP UND Center for Family Medicine

9. Summer Meal Programs List

10. Summer Meal Programs
Text
“FOOD” to
then Zip Code

11. It’s time harvest time!

14. Aaaa What is SNAP?
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; formerly called “Food Stamps”
54,000 North Dakotans
3 of 4 SNAP families have children
1 of 3 SNAP families have members who are elderly or disabled
SNAP is run out of the USDA
In North Dakota, SNAP is administered through the North Dakota Department of Human Services

15. SNAP Benefits
Cannot be used to purchase beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes or tobacco
Can be used to purchase garden seeds
Includes nutrition education classes, recipes, economics
Average benefit/meal
in North Dakota:
$1.34

16. 500 retail organizations in North Dakota are authorized to accept SNAP
$79 million to North Dakota’s economy, 2016

17. SNAP’s Long term Benefits
Reduces food insecurity and hunger
Lifted at least 3.6 million people out of poverty last year
Better health outcomes for children and pregnant mothers
Increased likelihood that children graduate from high school

18. North Dakotans who benefit from SNAP Compiled by
Great Plains Food Bank
Fifty-one-year-old Vickie Scholes is a single mother working part-time. She suffers from epilepsy, which Medicaid helps with, but struggles to make it to the end of each month. SNAP allows needed assistance.
Working part-time and living in a studio apartment that was once a hotel, 26-year-old Chelsey Lang does the best that she can to support her and her young son, Emryx.
A U.S. Army veteran, Willard Carpenter and his wife, Linda, rely greatly on the SNAP benefits they receive. Willard lost his right arm during a factory accident more than 45 years ago, but has not slowed down his farming operation.

19. North Dakotans who benefit from SNAP Compiled by
Great Plains Food Bank
Fifty-one-year-old Vickie Scholes is a single mother working part-time. She suffers from epilepsy, which Medicaid helps with, but struggles to make it to the end of each month. SNAP allows needed assistance.
Working part-time and living in a studio apartment that was once a hotel, 26-year-old Chelsey Lang does the best that she can to support her and her young son, Emryx.
A U.S. Army veteran, Willard Carpenter and his wife, Linda, rely greatly on the SNAP benefits they receive. Willard lost his right arm during a factory accident more than 45 years ago, but has not slowed down his farming operation.

20. SNAP and the Budget Proposals may
Cap SNAP amounts to states, which could result in 24% decrease over 10 years ($190 billion)
Shift costs to states
Charge retailers to participate
Limit number of adults without dependents who get benefits
Lower the minimum benefit level, currently $16/month
Cap eligible household members to 6 (family friendly?!)

21. SNAP and the Farm Bill
Unease has existed since the 1930’s over distributing free commodities to people with low incomes
FDR criticized for killing excess hogs to reduce supply
Ties together growers and eaters
Farm-to-table and farm-to-fuel
Farmers and ranchers make up about 2% of population

22. What can I do? What can we accomplish together?!
Goals
Structure and Sustainability
maintain a coalition of a statewide network of organizations, groups and individuals
Advocacy
identify and advocate for the policy and systems changes that are necessary to meet the immediate hunger needs and address the underlying causes of hunger
Education and Outreach
provide and promote education and outreach opportunities
Information, Data and Research
identify and compile data and information and make material available
Information and awareness are components of all aspects and goals of the coalition