Today is Giving Tuesday. To donate to Leah’s Pantry go to our facebook fundraiser here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/426953828914342/4506502606092795/ 2021 was a year like no other. As the nutrition and food security community “normalized” to the uncertainty and frustration of COVID-19, we also found our footing. Creating space for conversations about self-care, historical trauma, and trauma-informed systems intersected […]
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Giving Tuesday – About our Public Workshops
Help us continue our work delivering nutrition workshops in 2022. This year we delivered 203 nutrition education workshops reaching over 1200 participants! Save the date for Giving Tuesday, November 30th 2021 and find out how you can donate by visiting the link in our bio. #givingtuesday #givingtuesday2021 #leahspantry #eatfreshorg #traumainformed #nutritionsecurity #nutritioneducation #paces #equity […]
Giving Tuesday is tomorrow, December 1st
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! If you’ve been following us, you’ve caught a glimpse of the impact we’ve been making in the field of food insecurity and nutrition! Help us keep this momentum, by supporting us tomorrow! None of our work would be possible without the support of our incredible Leah’s Pantry partners and volunteers! Today […]
NPP 2020 Recap
In 2020, we saw an explosion of our Nutrition Pantry Program network, an innovative program which pairs training and technical assistance for charitable food distributions with trauma-informed principles and peer-to-peer networks. Despite covid-19, this program is up and running in 13 counties in California, and the program was recently adopted by food banks in Maine […]
Did You Know….
In 2020, we saw the national adoption of our programs into the evidence-based SNAP-Ed toolkit, the USDA’s clearinghouse for recommended curricula. This adoption is one factor in fueling our national growth, especially among our innovative trauma-informed programs! Don’t forget to give on this #givingtuesday
Trauma-Informed Influencers!
Our leaders are influencers in the trauma-informed nutrition movement! Monica and Adrienne are hard at work, penning a chapter for From Trauma to Resiliency: Trauma informed practices working with children, families, schools and communities, edited by UCSD professors Shulamit N. Ritblatt and Audrey Hokoda. Did you catch Monica’s interview on The Trauma Therapist podcast? If […]