1. Closing the Meal Gap: The Hunger Index
Drew Starbird

2. What is the Hunger Index?
MEASURE
COMPARE
REVEAL
UNDERSTAND

3. How do we use the Hunger Index?
Monitoring
Forecasting
Communicating
Decision-making
Partnering

4. Hunger in Santa Clara County 2012

5. Household Spending on Food
$7,000
Eligible for CalFresh

6. How many households are vulnerable?

7. Year
Households
Meals Needed
2010
173,000
564 million
2011
185,000
596 million
2012
595 million

8. Where do Vulnerable households get food?

9. Santa Clara County 2012 595 Million Meals 185,000 households

10. Food Assistance in Santa Clara 2012 Total Food Assistance: 153
Food Assistance in Santa Clara 2012 Total Food Assistance: million meals

11. How are we doing?

12. Santa Clara County Hunger Index
49.8%
50.2%
50.1%
50.2%

13. What have we learned?

14. Households are spending more on food and getting less
Households are spending more on food and getting less. What will inflation do?

15. Need to reconsider how we define “vulnerable
Need to reconsider how we define “vulnerable.” Are we capturing everyone?

16. Food assistance growing faster than need. Can we sustain it?

17. We make a difference, and we need to do more. Together we can.