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2020 Leah's Pantry Year in Review

Transforming communities by challenging ourselves, our partners, and our systems to weave trauma-informed principles into our understanding of food security, nourishment, and resiliency.

This year, like all of you, we rose to the challenge of COVID-19.

We quickly modified our community workshops and professional training programs to virtual formats.

By staying true to our values of compassionate relationships, innovation, and trust, we deepened our impact with participants and partners through a re-imagination of our work. Our pantry partners, like Mira Costa College, inspired us every day as they continued to serve their community's food security needs.

In 2020, we accelerated our work in ways we never imagined — bringing nourishment and healing to new sectors, geographies, and communities.

Our 2020 Pivot

Orders to shelter in place sparked innovation as we continued our community workshops and professional training programs.

We all cleaned our kitchens and started filming cooking classes from home to reach our student and older adult participants. Our YouTube analytics were amazing (+400% from 2019!)

We built a virtual training platform from scratch, connecting with over 1300 educators who had unexpected time to build capacity for trauma-informed programs.

The virtual format also gave us the opportunity to connect with programs nationwide. We trained professionals from 20 states in 2020!

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we were the only organization offering a depth and breadth of online nutrition education rooted in trauma-informed principles.

We held 177 nutrition based community workshops, 118 of which were virtual, reaching over 1,200* participants.

*Total includes some duplicate participants who attended more than one class.

And provided nutrition counseling services to 238 older adults and adults with disabilities in San Francisco via Telehealth.

Organizational Transformation

We are building on the momentum we’ve created. We are helping organizations transform the way they nourish and heal their communities.

The Learning Collaborative, launched in 2020, builds a network of compassionate, client-focused programs.

Through our work with Vista Community Clinic and North County Food Bank, both Learning Collaborative partners, trauma-informed nutrition programs reached more than 300,000 residents in San Diego County.

2020 Impact

Despite COVID-19 restrictions, we increased the number of program graduates — both community members and professional staff. Our Nutrition Pantry Program added partners from 16 California counties!

*FFY - Federal Fiscal Year (10/1 - 9/30)

We nearly doubled the number of participants in our workshops and trainings, from 11 to 20K participants. With home cooking on the rise, over 60K logged onto EatFresh.org for delicious ideas.

2021 and Beyond

Learning Collaborative

We’ll continue to transform organizations and systems by quadrupling our number of partners in the next two years.

Foster Youth

We’ll build tools to support the nourishment of the 50K California youth in foster and kinship programs. We’ll do this by integrating our unique trauma-informed approach into the caregiver support system.

Virtual Curriculum and Products

We’ll enhance our product offerings with material that promotes nourishment and resiliency. We’ll keep refining our curriculum to make an impact in various settings — in-person, online, or hybrid.

Mindful Movement

We’ll keep stretching — building mindful movement and trauma-informed physical activity into our curricula.

To all our donors, funders, and partners — thank you for helping us improve the health, wellness, and resilience of communities through trauma-informed nutrition security.

Created By
Adrienne Markworth
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