Reframing Conversations About Food Security
People in our communities deserve access to healthy food and nutrition education that:
Acknowledges and recognizes the impact of traumatic experiences
Avoids blame, shaming, or perpetuating stigma
Promotes resilience
We are passionate about educating community leaders with the knowledge and tools to transform the lives of people in their communities with nourishing, trauma-sensitive solutions.
Our Work
Leah’s Pantry envisions communities where everyone can cultivate a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. We address nutrition security in four areas:
Cultivate Nourished Communities
Offer programs where community members can build a resilient, multi-dimensional relationship with food and their bodies.
Deliver community-centered approaches to nutrition security.
Support connections between individual and planetary health.
Design and Build Innovative Programs
Develop products and programs that support a multi-dimensional relationship with food and recognize participants’ wisdom and experience.
Evaluate programs for transformative change.
Thoughtfully integrate community voice into program design and evaluation.
Catalyze Organizational Transformation
Deliver professional trainings that catalyze the implementation of trauma-informed nutrition security principles and programs.
Cultivate peer-to-peer networks of program implementers.
Align internal organization processes, policies, and procedures with trauma-informed principles.
Impact Food and Health Systems
Transform the understanding of nutrition security through speaking engagements, scholarship, conferences, and collaborations.
Promote the adoption of trauma-informed and nutrition security principles in county, state, and national policies and initiatives.
Collaborate across settings and sectors to develop models of equity and trauma-informed care.