{"id":13773,"date":"2021-03-30T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2021-05-21T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:04:28","slug":"membermonday-foodbanksbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/es\/blog\/membermonday-foodbanksbc\/","title":{"rendered":"#MemberMonday – Foodbank of Santa Barbara County"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s featured member food bank is the Banco de alimentos del condado de Santa B\u00e1rbara<\/a>. Since March 2020, now a full year ago, Foodbank SBC has met twice (or more) the usual need for food assistance throughout the county. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A home delivery program was launched that provided the 1,500 low-income older adults served by the Foodbank’s Brown Bag program with healthy groceries and fresh produce food at their doors. The Foodbank also enrolled more than 3,000 additional older adults in the Brown Bag program, providing triple the usual low-income older adults in the county with home deliveries. Households experiencing severe medical circumstances were also provided home deliveries by request. Since March 9, 2020, there have been more than 60,000 total home deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more proud of the Foodbank team and organizations across Santa Barbara County for working together to implement our Disaster Feeding Plan so swiftly and gracefully when the Covid crisis struck our area.\u201d <\/p>Erik Talkin, Foodbank CEO<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Families with school children represent a segment of the community facing unique need as parents have lost jobs and children could not attend school. In collaboration with districts countywide, the Foodbank provided boxes of healthy groceries and fresh produce to kids\u2019 families at the same times and locations where they picked up school lunches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To serve families experiencing the highest need, the Foodbank is collaborating with schools and other community organizations to broaden the reach of their award-winning Healthy School Pantry program. Adding to a base of six existing programs, the Foodbank has identified 10 more high-need neighborhoods countywide where new Healthy School Pantries will be launched in the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a Healthy School Pantry, families receive nutritious groceries and fresh produce, and have access to health and nutrition education, recipes, and other services and resources from additional providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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