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Latino Aealth Access weekly Food Distribution Program <br />RFP 22-009A REVIVE Santa Ana: Food Supply/Dstribution Programs <br />our communities. Lastly, in our most recent publication', we analyze the ways in which LHA <br />promotores have worked at the center of direct services, community capacity -building and policy <br />and systems change to improve our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing health and <br />social needs. <br />Across these different peer -reviewed publications, we have worked with Promotores on the <br />frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the following innovations in our model, which <br />includes the work of mitigating food insecurity: <br />e Combination of direct services. LHA combines its food distribution with distribution of <br />diapers, accessibility of information, among others. This limits the number of times that <br />community needs to show up to our facility, which is most efficient given their limited <br />availability. Our community is over -represented in low -wage essential services, which <br />may not allow them to have time off to access multiple services if conducted on different <br />days. <br />o Combination of direct services with long-term policy, systems, and environmental <br />change. While provision of food distribution services will alleviate immediate need, <br />LHA's promotores also work with community members to understand data, to present <br />data to relevant stakeholders, and to work collaboratively toward systems change that <br />will address food insecurity as well as other social determinants of health. Throughout <br />our food distribution program, LHA has also built community capacity to organize, to <br />plan in accordance with safety protocols, and to innovate ways to expand food <br />distribution to other neighborhoods (conducting pilots of neighborhood- and apartment <br />complex -based distribution). <br />LHA provides the opportunity for individuals who live in the communities that are most <br />impacted by inequities to partner with us to lead solutions. <br />SECTION 5• DATA COLLECTING, REPORTING AND COMPLIANCE <br />Data Collection and Evaluation Process measures will be collected for all activities and will <br />include: the number of individuals reached and engaged throughout each activity in our food <br />distribution work. Where possible, LHA will collect demographics and types of services each <br />participant received. LHA will track on a monthly basis the reach of each service and when <br />significant shifts occur, LHA will conduct informal interviews with community leaders to better <br />understand how to pivot to meet the community's emerging needs. <br />1. The proposal shall include details on how the organization will comply with the State <br />and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, Compliance and Reporting responsibilities for the <br />following categories: <br />2: Negative Economic Impacts <br />2.1 Household Assistance: Food Programs <br />' Montiel, G.1., Moon, K., Bracho, A., Meiia, N., Cantero., P.J., Arpero, S., Pantoja, L. & Nawaz, S. (2021). La <br />equidad en tiempos de pandemia: a case study of promotores on the frontlines of COVID-19 response in Latinx <br />communities in Orange County, California. Border -lines Journal. <br />