From the brief:
The prevalence of very low food security in the
Redwood Coast Region is more than 2 times the
prevalence in California.
Very low food security is a measure of severe food inse-
curity resulting in reduced food intake, disrupted eating
patterns or hunger. Food insecurity is associated with
numerous poor health outcomes including: obesity,
diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and poor
cognitive, academic and psychosocial outcomes.
Results from the Rural Health Information Survey,
2006, indicate that there are disparities in very low
food security in the Redwood Coast Region.
By Kali Patterson and Jessica Van Arsdale, MD, MPH
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It's true 2009 has really been a terrible year for disabled infant to frail aged people. Do you have ideas for how the county can make applying for food stamps easier? I hope that 2010 will be a great year. vente privee
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I am not a expert on Food Stamps, and when I have tried to get answers, what i was told was that the State of California is the only state that does not allow seniors and disabled to recieve food stamps. They supposedly justify this by saying that the money the disabled and senior would get in food stamsp is built into what they get in cash,
I still dont get it and I think that anyone living on $900 or less a month should be elligible for food stamps. The less you make the more you get etc. The levels of administration and beurocratic stuff is overwhelming. I think that if you are hungry enough to hit up food pantries for food you should be able to apply for food stamps through the food panties and food banks.
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2009 has been a terrible year for disabled infant to frail aged people
In April persons recieving SSI/SSA recieved a notice taking $34 to 76 from their monthly income, In June they recieved a second letter taking more, a second cut of the same size.
In July this same population lost dental care, psycological services, optometric care, chiropratic care, acupuncture, hiv and aids care and testing, and much much more,
In August this same population lost counseling services.
In November 850 persons will loose in home health care and workers will not have to pay for fingerprinting at a cost of $52 to 70 if they want a job caring for the disabled. While in theory this sounds like a good idea, THe challange comes when you look at the typical employee. These individuals are for the most part very low income people who will not have the $52 to 70 to pay for the prints. They are desparatley trying to keep food on the table for their kids and themselves.
While this may not seem like a food security issue, it is, because without in home health care workers, many of these home bound disabled people will have noone to pick up their CSA shares or to shop for them. and in Humboldt alone 850 low income people are about to loose their jobs.
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It's not so much economic
It's not so much economic reforms that decrease food security as it is manipulation and interference in food markets in order to damage the livelihood of some farmers for short-term benefit of consumers or for long-term benefit of some other farmers.
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Our communites are potentially losing over $32 million federal dollars due to underutilization of nutrition programs- Food Stamp, School Lunch and Summer Food Programs.
Our communities can't afford to miss out on this money.
It seems urgent that we figure out how to do a better job at connecting people with available resources.
What ideas do you have for how to do this?
Data Source: California Food Policy Advocates.
Estimates for Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino counties combined.
Annual Federal dollars lost due to underutilization of Food Stamp, School Lunch and Summer Food Programs: $32,515,389
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In reading your blog, I want to bring your attention to a intrigal piece ot the dialog:
1. Rural Food Pantries (and the food bank) struggle for resources and revenue. There are very few grants availible if any to promote the location of pantries or to pay their administrators to run them. This includes the time necessary to promote the need for donations,and ability to help.
2.The promotion of the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act to local businesses that provide food.
3. NOone on ssi or ssa can get food stamps! Most on these programs do not make more than $875 to $1200 a month. So the disabled and seniors are not elligible.
4. The county does not make applying for food stamps easy enough.
I would like to see what can be done to arrange a meeting between yourself, Ann Holcomb, the coalition that consists of the major hungr relief agencies in the county and Gabriella Robles of St Josephs Healthcare Foundation in Orange. She is coming to Humboldt to see us and others very soon, I think you should present your data to her and the new sister up here with the coalition members so she can take the information and needs back to the foundation.
Kelley Barrett
Board member, Resouce planning committee, Arcata Endeavor
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Thank you for raising these points.
Can you provide details about the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act?
Also, do you have ideas for how the county can make applying for food stamps easier?
Ask Congress to support nutrition programs in the Farm Bill
Please take action to support the Farm Bill - click this link and you will go directly to the SJHS CapWiz site and from there, it is very easy to have your voices heard.