Item 17 - Food Distribution/Supply Programs

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Latino Health Access Weekly Food Distribution Program RFP 22-009A REVIVE Santa Ana: Food Supply/Distribution Programs our communities. Lastly, in our most recent publication', we analyze the ways in which LHA promotores have worked at the center of direct services, community capacity -building and policy and systems change to improve our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing health and social needs. Across these different peer -reviewed publications, we have worked with Promotores on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the following innovations in our model, which includes the work of mitigating food insecurity: • Combination of direct services. LHA combines its food distribution with distribution of diapers, accessibility of information, among others. This limits the number of times that community needs to show up to our facility, which is most efficient given their limited availability. Our community is over -represented in low -wage essential services, which may not allow them to have time off to access multiple services if conducted on different days. • Combination of direct services with long-term policy, systems, and environmental change. While provision of food distribution services will alleviate immediate need, LHA's promotores also work with community members to understand data, to present data to relevant stakeholders, and to work collaboratively toward systems change that will address food insecurity as well as other social determinants of health. Throughout our food distribution program, LHA has also built community capacity to organize, to plan in accordance with safety protocols, and to innovate ways to expand food distribution to other neighborhoods (conducting pilots of neighborhood- and apartment complex -based distribution). LHA provides the opportunity for individuals who live in the communities that are most impacted by inequities to partner with us to lead solutions. SECTION 5: DATA COLLECTING. REPORTING AND COMPLIANCE Data Collection and Evaluation Process measures will be collected for all activities and will include: the number of individuals reached and engaged throughout each activity in our food distribution work. Where possible, LHA will collect demographics and types of services each participant received. LHA will track on a monthly basis the reach of each service and when significant shifts occur, LHA will conduct informal interviews with community leaders to better understand how to pivot to meet the community's emerging needs. 1. The proposal shall include details on how the organization will comply with the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, Compliance and Reporting responsibilities for the following categories: 2: Negative Economic Impacts 2.1 Household Assistance: Food Programs 3 Montiel, G.I., Moon, K., Bracho, A., Mejia, N., Cantero., P.J., Arpero, S., Pantoja, L. & Nawaz, S. (2021). La equidad en tiempos de pandemia: a case study of promotores on the frontlines of COVID-19 response in Latinx communities in Orange County, California. Border -lines Journal.