Community Food Assessment Program

Other Helpful Resources for Community Food Assessments:

USDA Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit. Barbara Cohen, 2000. Phone: (800) 999-6779

What's Cooking in Your Food System: A Guide to Community Food Assessments (Publication), Phone: (503) 954-2970 Program Development

Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding & Mobilizing a City's Assets. Kretzmann, J. and J. McKnight. 1993. Chicago, IL. (Publication)

California Nutrition Network & California 5-a-Day

Promoting Healthy Eating with Community Food Security Projects: From the Ground Up (Publication available in print and CD-Rom) http://www.CA5aday.com. Phone: (916) 323-0594

AHEC/Community Partners, Phone: (413) 253-4283

The Capacity Inventory, The Asset-Based Community Development Institute.

Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research. Richard A. Krueger , Mary Anne Case, 2000. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

"Participation in Appraisal" training modules.

Participatory Appraisal for Community Assessment: Principles and Methods

Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments: A Practical Guide. B.R. Witkin and J.W. Altschuld, 1995. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Reaching the Parts. Sustain - The Alliance for Better Food and Farming, 2000.

Sustainable Agriculture

California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Phone: (831) 457-2815

Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Phone: (530) 756-8518

University of California Cooperative Extension

University California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, Phone: (530) 752-7556

Anti-Hunger

California Association of Food Banks, Phone: (916) 456-2232

Center on Hunger and Poverty

World Hunger Year's "Food Security Learning Center," Community Food Assessment webpage. Phone: (212) 629-8850

Advocacy and Publicity

Getting Food on the Table: An Action Guide to Local Food Policy. Dawn Biehler, et al, 1999.

News for a Change: An Advocates Guide to Working with the Media. L. Wallack et al., 1999. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

SPIN Project

Organizing and Coalition Building

Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. Meredith Minkler, 1997. London, UK: Routledge.

Community Partners, Inc.
http://www.compartners.org/community/resources/index.shtml

The Organizing for Social Change Manual. Midwest Academy, 2001. http://www.midwestacademy.com/Book/page3.html

Stir it Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy. Rinku Sen and Kim Klein. http://www.ms.foundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=56

Research and Secondary Data Resources

California Health Interview Survey, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Community Action Model Website

Web Based Summer Food Mapping Tool

Toolbox Website

Child and Adult Care Food Program

San Francisco Food System Guidebook, Phone (415) 252-3853

CHIS data for CA social indicators
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) provides public health information for California's diverse population. Results on a variety of health topics are produced for the entire state and for most counties. The survey takes place every two years.

US Census Bureau
The Census Bureau Web Site provides on-line access to useful data including demographic information and publications.

USDA Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
This report provides survey tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. It includes a general guide to community assessment and materials for examining six basic assessment components. These components include guides for profiling community characteristics and community food resources as well as materials for assessing household food security, food availability and affordability, and community food production resources. Data collection tools include secondary data sources, focus group guides, and a food store survey instrument.

USDA Emergency Food Study Report
Findings of the first comprehensive government study of the Emergency Food Assistance System (EFAS) suggest that public and private food assistance may work in tandem to provide more comprehensive food assistance than either provides by itself. Five major types of organizations (emergency kitchens, food pantries, food banks, food rescue organizations, and emergency food organizations) operate in the EFAS. About 5,300 emergency kitchens provide more than 173 million meals a year, and 32,700 food pantries distribute about 2.9 billion pounds of food a year (roughly 2,200 million meals). Despite substantial amounts of food distributed by the system, the EFAS remains much smaller in scale than the Federal programs.

 

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Funding provided by the California Department of Health Services and the California Nutrition Network, with funding support from the US Department of Agriculture.